Word: surprisingness
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It seems the inquiries are coming just in time. A commentary in the May 22 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine highlights a potentially risky shift in direct-to-consumer (DTC) ads - from drugs to devices. Last Thanksgiving, Johnson & Johnson launched its new TV commercial for Cypher, a...
The surprising decision to drop charges against Qahtani is the latest setback for a military justice system at Guantanamo that appears to be in growing disarray. After holding prisoners for years without trial, the Bush Administration has made clear it wants to put captives in the dock, specifically six high...
Visitors to Harvard’s Museum of Natural History looking for dinosaurs this month will come across a surprising new exhibition. In place of the usual bones, the museum is showing photographs of leaves in black and white. The museum is not trying to bombard visitors with the unexpected...
Back in the 1970s, Hayden's argument wouldn't have been surprising. That era, which saw the birth of the modern environmental movement (the first Earth Day was observed in 1970), was obsessed with the idea of global limits, that without drastic intervention, we were doomed to overpopulation. Books like...
That's not surprising, considering that divorces among the elderly are rising. In 1975, for example, men 50 and older accounted for just 6.2% of divorces; that proportion rose to 18.8% in 2006. Some wives attribute this to "retired husband syndrome" - a condition in which a wife feels estranged after...