Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes, however, this pressure to remain fresh can lead to undesired consequences. In a widely publicized incident last month, the magazine fired one of its freelance writers, Stephen Glass, after it was found that some of his stories continued facts that were completely fabricated...
...Stephen G. Breyer, a Supreme Court Justice, and Matt Drudge, the creator of the online newsletter which first broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal, were among the participants in a series of panels which featured everyone from science fiction writers to university professors...
...report last week in the journal Circulation, 19 of 130 children with high blood pressure developed a dangerous thickening of the heart muscle that, in adults at least, has been linked to heart failure. "No one knows if this pattern holds true for younger patients as well," says Dr. Stephen Daniels, a pediatric cardiologist who led the study at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. "But it's worrisome...
...editors of the New Republic, the famously vociferous magazine of Washington opinion, like to think of themselves as a gimlet-eyed bunch. But when it came to reporter Stephen Glass, their vision was blurred. They regarded Glass, an eager and soft-spoken young man of 25, as a rare talent, able to land the kind of juicy fly-on-the-wall stories that make editors light up. "Steve was someone who could get into rooms other reporters couldn't get into, and come away with quotes and anecdotes the others couldn't get," says Glass's mentor, former New Republic...
...much. But some other things have changed, a lot. The overall market has roared ahead while biotech stocks barely budged, creating a vastly wider gap in value, and the biotech industry has had more time to mature. It will probably turn net profitable next year, and, notes money manager Stephen Flaks in Scottsdale, Ariz., "there are now hundreds of drugs that will be on the market within two years." Companies with such drugs are among Flaks' favorites: Matrix Pharmaceuticals (cancer), Neurocrine Biosciences (Alzheimer's) and Imclone Systems (cancer...