Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only praise. "She has done more than any other journalist to bring accurate information about nutrition and health to the public," declares Robert Barnett, an editor of American Health. Says Dr. Ernst Wynder, president of the American Health Foundation: "When it comes to preventive advice, she is more on target that most doctors...
...neither pain nor passion over the causes and battles that entangle the two peoples. And yet...I cannot help caring." What led him to care was "the human dimension" of the Arab-Israeli conflict: "The question of how Arab and Jew saw each other began to emerge as...the target of my search for understanding...
...subject of this week's cover proved quite challenging. The target itself was elusive. Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story, describes the virus as a bizarre creature that "isn't really life as we know it, but isn't inanimate either. It comes in an endless number of sizes and shapes, each seemingly designed to inflict a different kind of woe on humans, animals or plants." Wallis readily agrees. "Though we've all had the flu, few of us are familiar with the tiny creature that causes...
...California, they raised computer use among the girls from 26% to 48% in five months. By contrast, in the control group at a Texas school where no special efforts were made, participation by girls dropped during the same period from 14% to 10%. Says Author Sanders: "You must target girls specifically. Otherwise, it's business as usual...
...unusual target. Edward Austin Tracy, 55, a writer of erotic love poetry, was kidnaped last week in Muslim West Beirut by a pro-Iranian Shi'ite group calling itself the Revolutionary Justice Organization. Tracy, who was accused of being a U.S. spy, became the seventh American and 20th foreign hostage in Lebanon...