Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gingrich's ambitions, it turned out, were even vaster than those suggested by his five-page prospectus. A couple of years later, the House Ethics Committee released an appendix to its report on the Speaker's various ethics problems. The appendix was an amazing compendium of Gingrich's notes, speech drafts, memos and correspondence--a glimpse into the soul of Newtworld's architect during his private moments. It included, among much else, a handwritten note by Gingrich from December 1992. "Gingrich--primary mission," it read in part. "Advocate of civilization. Definer of civilization. Teacher of the rules of civilization...Leader...
...them that way for further study next to impossible. That is why it is so remarkable that two independent teams, one at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the other at Johns Hopkins, announced last week that they had both pulled it off. The Hopkins team, according to a report in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, got stem cells to survive in a petri dish for as long as nine months...
Evans, a longtime journalist and, until recently, president and publisher of Random House, is now editorial director of the New York Daily News, U.S. News & World Report and Atlantic Monthly. His American Century is told in black-and-white photographs, sprightly essays and lengthy commentaries flavored with personal observations...
...best thing to happen to TIME," or had the People page "become prisoner to his maniacal destructiveness"? Was he "wacky and fun" or "flat-out obnoxious"? Even as a sportswriter, a role he has taken up recently, Stein continues to attract both cheers ("What brilliant commentary!") and catcalls ("His report on the Yankees sent me running for the Pepto-Bismol"). To help us--and you--better understand this controversial phenom on our roster, we decided to turn the tables and pose our readers' queries to him directly...
College-age kids have a new reason to lay off booze: research shows that in 21-to-24-year-olds, just two glasses of alcohol impairs the ability to learn significantly more than in adults just a few years older. Another new report suggests what causes some kids to start drinking: television. Perhaps because of the way drinking is portrayed on TV, kids who are glued to the tube--especially to music videos--are substantially more likely to become teenage drinkers...