Word: researching
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...Crimson might do the College a big favor by publishing more research articles in the spirit of Woodward and Bernstein and fewer reflective editorials in the spirit of A.M. Rosenthal. Do a story, or a series of stories, on HDS. We have heard rumors that the oranges we eat come in boxes labeled "grade C: schools and prisons only." If that is true, it is only too apt. We ask: what crime did we commit to deserve such treatment? And whatever it was, what can we do to atone for it? Matthew Levin Kristine Zaleskas Michael Choi Joseph Dodge Valentin...
...smells. "I don't care how professional your firemen and policemen are," says Jim Worlund, an Oakland emergency planner, referring to an amputation performed on a victim on the collapsed Nimitz Freeway, "that's hard to live with." Dr. Edward McCarroll of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington last year conducted a survey of 150 military and civilian personnel who participated in rescue efforts at military disasters. He found that many were overwhelmed when they discovered a body that resembled them or when they handled victims' effects, like wedding rings. "All they can think of," he says...
...blunting mental trauma is counseling. Survivors need to be assured that their reactions are normal and expected. Talking to family and friends is encouraged, but often it is not enough. Says Susan Solomon, coordinator of the National Institute of Mental Health's emergency and disaster research program: "The thing that makes disasters particularly damaging is that the people you normally turn to for help are also victims." Many Alaskans affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill last March are finding professional help useful. In the three months after the accident, the number of people seeking assistance at the Valdez Counseling...
Granted, these worrisome conclusions rest on totally unscientific research. A few recent mentions prompted an inspection of my ego folder of clippings going back several years. Some of the contents were unsettling. Having no reason to believe that I was being singled out for special hazing, I decided that purveyors of the I.L. have a larger point than the news business should tolerate...
Political bias is only one element of the unchecked-error syndrome. Another could be labeled the pseudoauthoritative dodge. Washingtonian, a prosperous, glossy monthly, does an annual salary survey. This fall's version, listing hundreds of names linked to specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME staffers were cited. Mystified, several of us agreed that the figures were wrong (by 30% in one case) and that none of us had been consulted by Washingtonian. The writer, Robert Pack, explained, "You don't call hundreds of people and ask them what they make because they...