Word: phenomenons
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...black leaders in December 1988, Jesse Jackson and others suggested that "African-American" should replace "black" as the term of choice. Since then, "African-American" has been gaining ground among black leaders, politicians and the national press. In the past four years at Harvard, I witnessed the fascinating phenomenon of a label in transition: students coming to the point in a sentence where the proper racial label should be inserted would hesitate, even freeze, before gingerly choosing one. At times I would avoid using either term, electing to leave the person's race unspecified rather than choose between...
...PHENOMENON (July 3). The morphing is metaphorical here: a regular Joe (Travolta) is zapped with psychic powers and an Einstein IQ. Naturally, he's a freak to be avoided, except by one (Kyra Sedgwick) who loves him. Sounds sappy, but could work: director Jon Turteltaub has fashioned some improbable hits (Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping), and Travolta is a perpetual charm machine...
There's a catch, however. The benefit applied only to women who got their vitamins the old-fashioned way, in foods like nuts, margarine and vegetable oil. Vitamin-supplement takers, by contrast, seemed to get heart disease at pretty much the average rate. This phenomenon isn't limited to vitamin E. Two major studies released earlier this year--and reconfirmed in last week's New England Journal--showed that beta-carotene pills don't promote good health the way beta-carotene-rich foods (like carrots) do. Why should the same nutrient work when in food and not when in pills...
...Gulf, runs it through companies in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East and eventually funnels it to holy warriors in various countries. "There was a time when people thought that any support for international terrorism must be state-centered," says a scholar in London. "The bin Laden phenomenon is an illustration of the privatization of the support of terrorism...
...Babbs and I fly south to ask our incarcerated editor a few probing questions. I confess I had some reservations. The famous professor had always been more a distant phenomenon than a close friend. Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...