Word: journal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laurel Shackelford, assistant city editor, The Courier-Journal in Louisville...
ARIDE ON the T. David R. Ignatius '72 now works for the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street fuckin' Journal. He used to write about Revolution with a capital R which stood for Right Now and Right here in River City. It was the day after a Chicago jury, under the studious supervision of Judge Julius Hoffman, found five of the remaining Chicago 7 guilty--Seale had already been bound, gagged, hit with contempt of court and severed from the case. The Day After--TDA, for short--15,000 angry protesters gathered in Government Center and about a third...
Founded in 1924, Saturday Review flourished in the '50s and '60s as a staid journal of politics and literature under longtime Editor Norman Cousins. In 1971 it was sold to entrepreneurs Nicolas Charney and John Veronis, who turned the magazine into four separate monthlies on arts, education, science and society. The new format was confusing to readers and financially ruinous. Saturday Review went bankrupt in 1973, and Cousins came to the rescue. He ran it for the next four years and converted it to a fortnightly. Under Tucker, the magazine added more reportage and brighter graphics...
...there may be a safe and acceptable nuclear depot in the heavens. Three space engineers writing in the journal Astronautics & Aeronautics suggest parking the dangerous debris in an orbit far from any living thing, midway between the earth's own path around the sun and that of the neighboring planet Venus. Left there, say Claude Priest and Robert Nixon of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Eric Rice of the Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, it would never come closer to the earth than 22.5 million km (14 million miles). The scheme would also be cheaper than sending...
...colleagues confirmed that the obese had higher death rates than those of average weight, but they were surprised by similar high mortality rates for the underweight. The finding could not be explained by such factors as the amount of smoking or undiagnosed illness. These results, Sorlie writes in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "raise questions as to the health benefits from weight reduction in persons of average or near average weight...