Word: journaling
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Justice Scalia, the Bush camp's fiercest defender, has two sons employed by law firms working on the Bush postelection phase. And according to the Wall Street Journal, O'Connor's husband said at an election-night party that his wife, a 70-year-old breast-cancer survivor, would like to retire but that she would be reluctant to leave if a Democrat won the presidency and got to select her successor. Hers was a key swing vote that ensured a Republican victory. A conflict? Says Lerman: "At the very least it creates an appearance problem...
...found that regardless of how frequently the phones were used per month or how many years the phones were used, there wasn't any relationship with the development of brain cancer," Joshua Muscat, chief author of the study, said Wednesday. The first report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was funded by the cellular phone industry and conducted by the American Health Foundation. The second, independently financed study will be published later this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, where editors decided to lift an embargo early in order to support the findings reported...
...descent starts to steepen, some of the passengers are starting to scream (including a few Fed governors, according to Monday's Wall Street Journal). Last week, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) implored the Fed to cut rates and avoid a recession before it was "too late." And a sizable minority of Wall Street went into Tuesday thinking Greenspan should have cut rates by a quarter-point, as a Christmas gift to the markets and as an acknowledgment that...
Sources: Good News--Journal of the American Medical Association (12/6/00); New England Journal of Medicine (12/7/00); Bad News--NEJM (12/6/00...
...reality of the choices he has made. For many literary critics, the brilliance of "Death of a Salesman" was that this simple message conveyed the tragedy of the everyman, and in such a way that an audience of any kind could empathize. Joel Henning of the Wall Street Journal said that his father, a businessperson, never responded to any theater like he did to "Death of a Salesman," which "was imprinted on his psyche until he died." That's powerful stuff...