the story-$6 to $8 per news column in New York, where rates were high- est, $16 for exclusives, and 50 cents an hour when assigned stories fell through. Reporters were rarely reimbursed for their expenses.
Since cost-conscious editors cut stories to the bone, and since column inches meant money, a reporter always handed in reams of copy. Moreover, he quickly learned that "the plain 'fire' is worth a dollar and the 'conflagration' will make him a possible ten," as one editor ob- served...
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organizations; 35 percent were opinion columns or editorials. The re- mainder were illustrations and feature pieces. Yet only 6 percent of all stories reviewed the history of affirmative action. A mere 4 percent described the workings and results of special admissions programs. And only 5 percent portrayed the background of plaintiff Allan Bakke. All the papers except the World editorialized strongly against Bakke's position, but news headlines were generally neutral. F...
excluding them from the priest- hood), requiring celibacy of all priests [except for married Anglican clergymen who join the Catholic Church], and his ban on contraception run counter to the contention that each individual is unique, says Cox. And, he adds, the pope seemingly contradicted his own human rights stance refusing to allow dissident Swiss theologian Hans Kung "to select his own counsel and have full access to his dossier" if and when Kung answers the Vatican's summons to defend...
persecution.
A compelling speaker and writer, Herzl electrified the Jewish masses and helped transform Zionism from a longing into a political move- ment. Further, his organizing skills resulted in a parliament, a chief executive, and a state bank, all "in exile." But his post-1898 willingness to consider alternative sites for a Jewish colony (such as Uganda) en- raged "cultural Zionists" who insisted that history made Palestine the only acceptable choice. The dispute split...
preaching that the Church derives its power from the laity. The pontiff stepped in and excommunicated McGlynn in July 1887.
1891, George's reform movement had lost steam, and McGlynn was out of the news. Pope Leo restored McGlynn to the priesthood in 1892 -without consulting Corrigan. Dumfounded, the archbishop at first refused to receive McGlynn back into the diocese but subsequently decided to curry favor with the pope. He became a fervent defender of papal infallibility, then being questioned...
the count- less meteors and meteorites that regularly bombard the earth.
The authors estimate that the meteor was roughly 6.2 miles in diam- eter and created roughly 1,000 times more atmospheric dust than the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa, which spewed about 11 cubic miles of material into the air in 1883. Krakatoa caused brilliant sunsets worldwide for two years; the meteor may have turned day into night for several years.
The fossil record supports theories of a killing global dust cover. Microscopic...
age 23. Though anemia rarely causes death, it cuts the blood's oxygen carrying capacity, increasing the chances of fatality from pneumonia, bronchitis, and heart problems. It also heightens the impact of even moderate blood loss during childbirth, which the au- thors rate as the leading cause of anemia-related death among early medieval women.
Iron intake for men and women increased the 10th century throughout Europe. Development of the three-field crop rotation sys- tem, an advance over the earlier...
shock waves from supernovae, exploded stars that emit vast amounts of energy.
Last year, using telescopes aboard an orbiting satellite, scientists discovered one such field- the largest known object in the galaxy -measuring 1,000 light years across in the constellation Cygnus. This "superbubble," located near the center of the Milky Way (Earth is on the outer edge), and others like it, may be prime engines of star forma- tion, report Cash and Charles, astronomers at the University of...
16 percent the amount of oil burned to make electricity, even as nuclear output fell 8 percent.
The authors contend that nuclear power is also pricing itself out of the energy market. From 1971 to 1978, capital costs per kilowatt rose more than twice as fast for nuclear as for coal plants. Nuclear- generated electricity is already 50 percent more expensive than coal- generated electricity. Managing waste, decommissioning plants, and cleaning up radioactive spills from uranium mining have added...
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of American Demographics.
From 1960 to 1970, per capita energy consumption in America jumped 2.9 percent annually. But during the 1970s, total energy de- mand grew only 10 percent-a mere 1 percent per capita annual gain. If this trend continues, th...