Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer and a modem compete mouse to mouse with mainstream media. (Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor. Character assassination, like everything else online, happens at warp speed, which is why some say there's no way to correct damage to one's reputation--or protect one's privacy...
...came at the MacWorld Expo in Boston, with what will surely go down as one of our era's iconic images: Gates' tousle-haired grin looming from a giant video screen over the tiny figure of Apple "adviser" Jobs, who stood on the podium watching his strange bedfellow confirm Microsoft's decision to bail out the seminal Silicon Valley start...
...movie is careful not to give Chad his comeuppance, and the audience must fish for any lessons the story offers. Men are welcome to X-ray their hearts for a hint of Howard or an edge of Chad. Women can take a peek at--and, if they wish, confirm their suspicions of--that dangerous and perplexing house pest, the modern middle-class male. The camera lingers in elegantly immobile, anthropological medium shot--a distance that respects the danger of the creature it is photographing. Chad prowls and roars and claws for us in his cage, separated not by bars...
...knew the one person from their elementary school who'd gone to Harvard, the one class genius whom they'd known of, but not known. Some wanted to know if Harvard is "a lot of work" and whether it's hard. During the night, two guys asked me to confirm stories they'd heard about life within our mysterious Ivory Tower. Another guy was thrilled to meet me because he'd never before met a Harvard student; he'd known theoretically that we existed, but he'd never seen living proof...
Superficially, at least, the New England Journal paper appears to confirm this. The study, conducted at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, surveyed 587 people with a history of heart trouble. The 64 who died during the course of the research were among those with the highest levels of homocysteine in their blood. Overall, the research suggested, people with elevated homocysteine are 4 1/2 times as likely to die of heart disease as those with normal levels...