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...never a good idea not to tell the truth." But Joe didn't listen--the whodunit gimmick was boosting sales--and Parker didn't insist. Instead, Parker published an item by senior editor Jonathan Alter guessing at Anonymous' identity, thus dragging the magazine into Klein's credibility gap. "In retrospect, I shouldn't have published the item. Our interests diverged at that point." Parker has apologized to Alter, who has not yet heard from Klein. "What happened can rub off on other Newsweek columnists who tell the truth," Alter says. "I'm lucky I have a lot of options...
Roosevelt's optimism about medical research seems, in retrospect, amazing. Doctors could not prevent or treat the poliovirus infection that had paralyzed him nearly twenty years earlier. John Franklin Enders and vaccines were still in the future; the main therapies were iron lungs and warm baths. Most of the staples of modern medicine were also still unknown. Antibiotics. Hormone replacements. Effective drug therapies for psychotic illnesses. Pre-natal testing. Coronary bypass surgery and artifical joints. Also in the future were medications that could have lowered FDR's blood pressure and perhaps forestalled the stroke that killed him less than five...
...government can work productively with universities, where the cellular defect in cystinosis was studied, and with industries, where the new drug was manufactured; and finally, that progress in medical science occurs at a pace that may seem slow at the time to desperate parents, but astoundingly rapid in retrospect. Just consider: in the space of a generation, this lethal disease was made survivable with transplants, then curable with drugs...
Although the path of medical research may seem slow, he said, the rate of progress is "astoundingly rapid in retrospect...
When one looks back at the entire season in retrospect, however, the one thing that looms the largest is a failure to capitalize. Too often Harvard was unable to come through in the clutch, and these missed opportunities always came against teams the Crimson could have defeated...