Word: journal
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...comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with the remedy and apt to mistake its signs for battering. That possibility, as well as doctors' skepticism about the value of coin rubbing, has caused many immigrants to avoid needed medical care...
...troops. Le Canard also published Giscard's 1978 income tax return, pointing out that he continued to be an active shareholder in the Paris Bourse while making decisions that presumably could affect his stock prices. Then Le Monde (circ. 550,000), France's most reputable and independent journal, added an analysis of the Giscard family's business dealings in Africa...
...honor would have gratified and amused him. Judging from Raymond Sokolov's biography, Liebling did not think he was an innovator but a perpetuator of a writing tradition at least as old as Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Liebling's prose remain s Raymond Sokolov convincing because it rarely asks the reader to believe more than the author saw, heard, smelled, touched and, of course...
From the beginning, Buckley's urbane and often sarcastic journal has reflected his blend of libertarianism, orthodox Catholicism and unwavering conservatism. N.R. has consistently opposed Communism, detente and wage-price controls, while supporting increased defense spending and the deregulation of virtually everything. Recent articles have scoffed at equal opportunity laws, asked why sex education, but not prayer, is allowed in public schools, urged the Republican Party to stand by its tough campaign plank on judicial appointments. Though N.R. is hardly one of the handsomest magazines around, it does exhibit a rare appreciation for the power and variety of language...
This represents quite a change from the days when Buckley's hard-line intellectual journal was well to the right of the great majority of America's political thinkers. For years National Review did not even have the stimulation of any worthy competition. Says Buckley: "There was absolutely no journal of opinion for us types to write for. Over here [on the right] it was just plain Dry Gulch...