Word: sectionalism
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Readers decided to stick with familiar titles. “Marley & Me,” the oddly popular memoir of a newspaper man’s ill-behaved dog, dominated the non-fiction section along with interesting and layman-accessible tomes by Thomas L. Friedman, Steven Levitt, and Malcolm Gladwell, respectively...
...This misrepresentation, the EWG alleged, stemmed from the fact that Douglass’ report concluded that there was no significant correlation between fluoride and osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer. Yet a section of a two-page outline of the report, entitled “Publications,” listed a 2001 doctoral thesis written by Elise B. Bassin and supervised by Douglass...
...already become a go-to source for researchers studying everything from multiple sclerosis to brain tumors. Researchers can log on and view, in helpful color-coded patterns, where certain genes are turned on in the brain, and can manipulate the image to get just the perspective and cross section they need...
...graying progenitrices. In Spain, 13% of first-time mothers are over 40. In the U.K., the number of first-time mothers over 35 has trebled in 15 years. And medical techniques are extending the age at which women can conceive. On July 8, baby J.J. was born by C-section at a hospital in southeast England, weighing 3 kg. His mother, Dr. Patricia Rashbrook, 62 years old at the time, described him as "adorable"; her critics called her "selfish," noting that Rashbrook statistically is unlikely to see her son through university. But even as the age horizon of traditional parenthood...
...August 26, 2005, just three days before the hurricane struck the Gulf Coast; now they were waiting in a long line outside the stadium and wondering how many of the other season ticket subscribers they had come to know over the years, who always bought seats in the same section, would also be returning. "With Katrina, so many people had to leave," Williams said. "I guess we'll see how many of them have come back...