Word: topicalism
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...banner years for books about "the elder passage," as writer Robert Raines has labeled it. The spate of material ranges from guides on how to avoid the ravages of aging, to manuals on turning 50, to how-to books on dealing with aging parents and to--the ultimate boomer topic--volumes on death, the one transition that this most youth-oriented generation has been denying since...
...topic is likely to be more controversial, or more au courant, in coming years than death. And Jack Kevorkian will not have the last word. Dr. Daniel Tobin's views of dying as a natural part of living were shaped when, as a third-year medical student, he watched a frail, 88-year-old man, near death, plead unsuccessfully with doctors to go home rather than face another battery of invasive tests. Tobin went on to found the FairCare program for peaceful dying in Albany, N.Y. His new book is Peaceful Dying: The Step-by-Step Guide to Preserving Your...
Once an unspoken topic, honor killing in recent years has begun to be spotlighted in the media, thanks in part to Rana Husseini, a trailblazing reporter for the English-language Jordan Times. Since 1996 the Jordanian Women's Union has operated a hot line for women in distress. Creating a safe house to protect them is the next objective of activists. Abolishing the legal loopholes is another...
...Seaman, TIME's special-projects editor, has overseen two recent special issues on medicine and last October's look at a week in the life of a hospital. Elmer-DeWitt, TIME's science editor, has written cover stories on gene therapy and cloning. But when they began framing the topic of this issue, they realized they would need expert assistance. "We decided to focus on genetics, which is the area of research likely to have the greatest impact on how medicine is practiced in the future," says Elmer-DeWitt. "But it's a complex field that's moving quickly...
...people are buying computers for the first time, and the advice they seek tends to be on the practical (if not whimsical) side. There are a lot of beginners out there. For instance, every week I point people to our website, timedigital.com for more information about the column's topic. Invariably, I get e-mail from readers saying something like: "I tried to look up timedigital.com but I got thousands of hits. Which one is your page?" Aha! I snort. Here's a person who is still confused about the difference between a browser and a search engine...