Word: shadowland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This shadowland of medical practice didn't start to attract public scrutiny until off-label prescribing became the treatment of choice for people suffering from AIDS or advanced cancers. "When it comes to treating cancer, things are much more liberal than in other areas of medicine," says Dr. Thierry Jahan, an oncologist at the University of California at San Francisco. "There's an element of desperation. So you try a lot of combinations of drugs that are already on the market while waiting for new drugs to become available...
...half a dozen start-up sports this year include two debuting as medal events: free-style skiing over bumps, or "moguls," and short-track speed skating. Four others are being classed as "demonstration" sports -- a shadowland category, bestowing medals that are not real medals -- that will be dropped altogether after this year. It is up or out: they must become medal sports or disappear from the Games...