Michael J.When Newsmen Robinson. in Washington Journalism Re- ~~~k at Newsmenview (~ec.1983)' 253 Wisconsin Ave.
N.W., Suite 442, Washington, D.C. 20007.
U.S. journalists are often criticized for being too "negative" about the people and institutions they describe. They may be, says Robin- son, director of the Media Analysis Project at George Washington University, but at least they are consistent: These days, journalists are also hard on one another.
Robinson surveyed network TV news...
Michael J.When Newsmen Robinson. in Washington Journalism Re- ~~~k at Newsmenview (~ec.1983)' 253 Wisconsin Ave.
N.W., Suite 442, Washington, D.C. 20007.
U.S. journalists are often criticized for being too "negative" about the people and institutions they describe. They may be, says Robin- son, director of the Media Analysis Project at George Washington University, but at least they are consistent: These days, journalists are also hard on one another.
Robinson surveyed network TV news...
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PERIODICALS
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
"Remembrance of Things Partly" byThe Anatomy Wray Herbert, in Science News (Dec. 10,
1983), 231 West Center St., Marion, Ohio
f Memory 43302.
"H.M.," as he is known to scientists, underwent surgery in 1953 in which much of the hippocampus region of his lower brain was removed to stop his epileptic seizures. In a freak accident with a fencing foil in 1960,another man, "N.A.," suffered an injury to the left side o...
Space Shuttle M. Mitchell Waldrop, in Science (Oct. 28, 1983), 1515 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Skeptics Washington, D.C. 20005.
After 13 missions, U.S. space shuttle launches still capture the public imagination sufficiently to merit live network TV coverage. But not everybody is cheering.
To scientists, reports Waldrop, a Science correspondent, the shuttle represents unmet expectations. During the early 1970s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) promised scientists that there...
the early 1990s.
Bom-Again "Are New Diseases Really New?" Ed-
win D. Kilbourne, in Natural History Diseases (Dec. 1983), Membership Services, P.O.
Box 6000, Des Moines, Iowa 50340.
The world's last remaining pockets of smallpox had hardly been wiped out when a series of baffling new illnesses-Legionnaires' disease, toxic shock syndrome, and, most recently, AIDS (acquired immune defi- ciency syndrome)-seemed to materialize out of nowhere.
Most of these afflictions are actually old...
IODICALS
RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT
"The Case for Ocean Waste Disposal" by
Where Will All William Lahey and Michael Connor, in Technology ~eview(Aug.-Sept. 1983),
The Garbage Go? Room 10-140, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139.
New York's Love Canal, Missouri's Times Beach, and other toxic waste dumpsites gone bad are making the oceans look better than they did 10 years ago as places to dispose of industrial by-products, municipal sew- age sludge, ind p...
the year 2000.
Wholesale clearance of tropical forests began when European plant- ers began colonizing Latin America in the 17th century, writes Jackson, a freelance journalist. Sugar and rubber plantations still cover vast ex- panses of land once occupied rainforest. Today, "shifting cultiva- tors," small-scale forest farmers numbering 150 million worldwide, are responsible for half of new losses as they slash plots out of the forest, then move on when the thin soil wears out.
Logging...
the year 2000.
Wholesale clearance of tropical forests began when European plant- ers began colonizing Latin America in the 17th century, writes Jackson, a freelance journalist. Sugar and rubber plantations still cover vast ex- panses of land once occupied rainforest. Today, "shifting cultiva- tors," small-scale forest farmers numbering 150 million worldwide, are responsible for half of new losses as they slash plots out of the forest, then move on when the thin soil wears out.
Logging...
the
U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service have ap- preciated 22-fold, and are now worth some $500 billion.
Clawson notes that the 200-year history of federal land use policy has been one of constant change. Until the early 19th century, the focus was on acquisition. A period of disposal through homesteading (which con- tinued until 1934), sales, and land grants for colleges and railroads fol- lowed. Beginning with the creation of the first National Forests (then called "forest...
what we would today call the "preppie class." Cheever views his subjects with sympathy but detachment, engendered his per- sonal demons-a stormy marriage, alcoholism, and, later in life, grow- ing homosexual proclivities.
With the exception of his first two (and best) novels, The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) and The Wapshot Scandal (1964), Cheever's books were attempts to exorcize those troubles and find redemption, argues Gus- sow. Both Bullet Park (1 969) and Falconer (1977) worked poorly...