Word: shifting
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...advent of the Internet. Burrow astutely recognizes Ken Burns' U.S. television series on the American Civil War for what it is - a trailblazing masterpiece, "matching the scale of events it recounted in a way no printed book could do." As Burrow suggests, this is just part of a broader shift in the way the past has come to be packaged. When Burrow was a boy, he learned Latin and translated the Roman historians Livy and Tacitus. Today, children still learn about, say, the Battle of Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans under King Leonidas stood up to several thousand invading Persian troops...
...work together to bring about changes in health care, education, foreign policy and energy policy is not going to change, they say. And it would be dangerous to try. "His challenge is to stay disciplined and stay on the track," said one adviser. "I don't see a shift in any way, shape or form. If you believe that this has not been a fluke from the start, and we do, then there should be no shift as you go to a bigger audience...
Indeed, it did - especially with unmarried women, a key component of the Democratic base. One campaign adviser noted that where Obama won that demographic by 13 percentage points in Iowa, Clinton carried it by 17 points in New Hampshire - a 30-point shift over in the course of five days. (It also couldn't have hurt that a great number of men from the punditocracy spent the hours before the primary gleefully anticipating a Clinton catastrophe...
...There are senior officials within the campaign - notably, outside advisers say, media consultant Mandy Grunwald and adviser Harold Ickes - who have been worried for months that Clinton was missing the fundamental shift in the electorate. However, their entreaties have gone nowhere. Bill and Hillary Clinton have put enormous faith in Penn, and given him veto power, aides say, over every word that goes into her television ads and every line in her mailers. "He had her and the President's trust very deeply," says one adviser who is close to the campaign. Adds another: "He's a one-man shop...
...similar survey of American doctors found that 60% of respondents believed that using placebos was a good way to deduce whether a patient had a "real" problem or was just faking it. In the current study, 80% of doctors disagreed with that statement. "That's a significant shift in doctors' thinking in a relatively short time," says lead author Rachel Sherman, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Chicago. Today, few doctors balk when patients say they have pain but show nothing abnormal in scans. "Physicians in this survey believe the mind and the body are inherently interconnected...