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The Academy of Sciences provides useful backgrounders on the prize, technical and non-technical.
Mr. Miller says that it's not always whispered backgrounders from police pals that offer insight.
"Leaks, backgrounders, favors, masked attribution: For decades, journalists and government officials have...manipulated one another and, to some extent, readers too," the magazine noted.
If you do a search on terms like "climate sensitivity" on the site, you'll turn up some really good backgrounders on this topic by Gavin Schmidt and others.
That said, reminders and backgrounders are helpful.
Brief contextual backgrounders use euphemisms including "settler" to avoid being contentious – while Burney strains to emphasise the importance of the actual truth in remedying the ills of more than 200 years of colonialism.
Features can be news backgrounders, fulfilling the explanatory role when there is not room for that in the main news story.
Indeed, when biotechnology industry executives were asked about Genetic ID, they supplied The New York Times with handouts and "backgrounders" on the company, including descriptions of Dr. Fagan's affiliation with practitioners of transcedental meditation, which the notes said had "some very peculiar quasi-religious beliefs about food and health".
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