Word: popular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is best known for its largest departments, economics and government, popular with the Adidas set (they don't call 'em gov jocks for nothing). These departments are vast and impersonal but have blessedly lax requirements. An alternate route is the make-Mom-cry concentration--Folklore and Mythology, anyone...
...when the op-Arts were removed from FM to form the separate "Arts" section. "What now?" thought the magazine editors. And thus Fifteen Minutes, sans arts section, tumbled into confusion. Who are we, where are we going? Various theories surfaced. Some editors thought that "Fifteen Minutes" should be about popular culture with kitschy visuals and copy. Others took the Warhol reference more literally and sprinkled the magazine with Campbell's soup cans. Recent magazine executives interpreted the title at face value--a quarter hour--and brought a chronological theme to the magazine's sections--For the Moment, The Minutes...
...Many popular diets recommend limiting the consumption of eggs, but these recommendations are often based on indirect evidence, according to SPH Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Meir J. Stampfer, another author of the study...
...yellow brick road is the studio--the site of our audition. The same set where Ananda hosts her popular music video program has been divided into 15 separate booths. My companions and I take a moment to huddle and take stock. We say a brief prayer to the spirit of Sammy Davis Jr., and head off to our separate booths in search of fame and fortune...
Medical research has learned an important lesson from the egg this week: Don?t place all your hunches in one basket. A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association unpeeled a surprising new finding: Contrary to popular assumption, eating one egg a day does not significantly increase the risk of heart attack or stroke. The study essentially debunked the common train of thought that had given eggs a bum rap, explains TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. ?Scientists have known that eating eggs increases blood cholesterol, and they have also known that people with increased blood cholesterol...