International conflicts often appear as simmering disputes that suddenly erupt into full-scale war, taking the world by surprise. In reality, says a Southern Methodist University political scientist, war is at least as predictable as the economy. All it takes is listening to a countryÃs mass media.
"Going to the polls" takes on a whole new meaning when you're hospitalized. Volunteers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center make sure that all eligible voters who want to, can vote on election day -- right from their hospital bed.
The impact wives have on their husbands' career choices depends not just on financial considerations, but also on the attitudes of both spouses, new research at Ohio State suggests.
A new study uses an unusual source -- proverbs -- to reveal cultural differences in how Chinese and American citizens view risks and risk-taking.
Contrary to popular belief, new research at Ohio State suggests that low self-esteem in adolescents does not lead to later delinquent behavior. Moreover, involvement in delinquent behavior actually lowers later self-esteem in teens, according to the study.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a group of Cornell University economists and engineers a multidisciplinary grant to study the effects of competitive markets on the reliable operation of the electricity supply system.
In less than ten years, many employees will no longer have only health insurance but, also a medical savings accounts from their employers. Whatever's not spent will be saved for retirement, predict two Cornell University heath care management professors.
Conference at Northwestern University School of Law Nov. 13-15 will feature many of the 74 people freed from death row since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, as well as who's who of experts, celebrities.
The upcoming election is an opportunity for Vice President Gore to build momentum for a run for the presidency in 2000. Vanderbilt experts can analyze the impact of the mid-term election on Gore and other key political issues.
Northwestern University researchers find that women are at a distinct disadvantage in the mating game, they published in the October issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The future of affirmative action policies and how they will continue affect universities and workplaces nationwide is the topic of "A Conference on the Future of Affirmative Action" set to take place at the University of Iowa Oct. 30-31.
The elderly can largely compensate for their loss of function with grab bars and other helping devices, a good diet and, surprisingly, several drinks a day, according to Cornell University health economist Nandinee Kutty.
In an effort to improve quality of services, increase the use of adult day centers, and assist in the development of start-up ventures, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded Wake Forest University School of Medicine a $1.9 million grant to launch a national technical assistance program to help move the field of adult day services forward.
What Transforms Ordinary Citizens -- Farmers and Housewives, Teachers and Soccer Moms -- Into Environmental Crusaders? New Book Profiles Scores of Activists Who Made The Leap From Victims to Leaders, Defying Conventional Notions of What Makes a Hero.
Cornell Cooperative Extension has published a 68-page manual, Prevention of Youth Violence, intended as a resource guide for youth-development and family-life professionals and volunteers. It identifies risk factors, summarizes major prevention programs and offers a variety of resources.
Despite fears that President Clinton's personal scandal would demoralize Democratic voters in the upcoming mid-term elections, the 1998 Heartland Poll from the University of Iowa shows that Democratic voters in the Midwest are more highly energized than their Republican counterparts. The Heartland Poll, is conducted in election years at the Iowa Social Science Institute at the UI.
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds may earn lower scores on standardized tests because they fear that academic success will alienate them from friends or family members and arouse suspicion among teachers, a University of Iowa study has found.
"In studying influential people, researchers are seeing that persons who enjoy thinking have added impact," says a psychology professor at Purdue University.
University of Kansas communications researcher says John Glenn's space flight at age 77 pushes the stereotype envelope for older adults. "One stereotype of older people is that they can't learn new things. Glenn is saying it is not as easy as it was at age 30, but 'I can do it and I'm enjoying it."
Grandparents are primary caregivers for more than 5 percent of U.S. children. A CWRU nursing professor examined health, stress, coping, and social support for grandmothers who are their grandchildren's primary caregiver, versus grandmothers who live with grandchildren but are not responsible for raising them.
Uneven progress of African Americans identified in a new report on race in America.
A series of lectures, colloquia, performances and film screenings, all focused on the black West, will be sponsored this year by University of California, San Diego's African and African-American Studies Research Project, culminating in a two-day symposium to be held in April.
The new book, "The Grand Resort Hotels of the White Mountains, A Vanishing Architectural Legacy," is the first to fully explore the architectural, economic and cultural history of these resorts, once situated in one of the nation's most popular locales.
When a woman has a baby she doesn't want, the child's self-esteem is likely to suffer more than two decades later.
Television star joins prominent health experts to address the changing landscape of the ""top smoking" environment and announce her plans to "commit to quit" for the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout
With less than 30 days until election day, the time is ripe to ponder, once again, the arguably sorry state of American Citizenship. In 1996, less than half of all eligible Americans bothered to vote. Each year, fewer and fewer Americans take the time to stay abreast of governmental and public affairs issues.
Richard Pillsbury's No Foreign Food is part historical cookbook, part foodwise travelogue, and arguably the most clear-eyed, in-depth view of the American diet available in academia or anywhere else -- Pillsbury also offers a fresh take on Thanksgiving.
Trade in high-quality cacao may explain the longevity of an Olmec village in Puerto Escondido, Honduras, which survived from 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1000, according to Cornell and Berkeley archaeologists.
University of Georgia researcher's book suggests that differences in communication styles may be a cause of many problems that exist between African American males and females. Professor Veronica Duncan suggests that the effects of slavery and racism may also play a part in the communication dynamics.
Evidence shows that certain family characteristics can put children at risk for developing aggressive behavior problems. But, according to a study in the October issue of the American Psychological Association's Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, strengthening parenting skills early can be a good step toward preventing problem behaviors in children at risk.
Residents of a Central Illinois watershed responded so well to a crisis of atrazine-contaminated water that their cooperative effort, which was studied by the University of Illinois, is being turned into a national model for local conservation planning.
A Centre College professor has surprising news for church congregations suffering a decline in membership: get strict.
In 1990, when a small group of University of Illinois faculty and students arrived in East St. Louis, Ill., bearing ideas for revitalizing decaying, semi-abandoned neighborhoods, residents were skeptical. Now they have handed the project a fairly glowing report card.
"Men never do any of the work around the house; they never help with raising the kids!" "Women cry too much; they're too emotional!" "Why do boys always roughhouse; they compete over everything." "Girls always sit around and play with their dolls, and teenage girls always talk on the phone and gossip."
Dead plants, bad lighting and sagging couches are probably the last things clients should encounter in their therapists' offices, according to a University of Illinois architecture professor.
President Bill Clinton may be facing the possibility of impeachment over the issue of Monica Lewinsky, but his mastery of public speech could be his ticket to staying in office, according to a University of Georgia professor of speech communication who is a scholar of presidential and political rhetoric.
A University of Iowa College of Law professor, has been asked to present his research on the status of the Americans with Disabilities Act to a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee at its first major inquiry on the ADA in Washington D.C., Monday, Oct. 5.
An estimated five-percent of the American population is addicted to the thrills and highs of gambling, according to a professor of psychiatry at the UConn Health Center.
Evaluating how suitable our homes are for aging should be just as routine as financial planning, says Cornell University housing expert, Joseph Laquatra. Adapting homes for age-related disabilities would help the elderly age in place and live independently and would reduce the need for long-term care.
Negative ads are getting a bum rap in the debate about campaign reform, according to a political scientist who has conducted research on political advertising.
Non-custodial fathers are less likely to maintain contact with children from a previous relationship if they have biological children with another partner, a new study shows.
Despite the prevalence of violence in inner-city neighborhoods, elementary school children living there seem to have favorable views of at least parts of their community, a new study suggests.
Researchers have identified some of the important factors that may predict refugee migrations that displace millions of people each year. "Refugee migrations are not random -- they stem from political and social problems that can be predicted," a researcher said. said Craig Jenkins, a professor of sociology and a
Two University of North Texas psychologists have discovered that those who lose friends or family members as a result of an accident, murder or suicide view the funeral more negatively and experience less help from it than those whose friends' or family members' deaths were expected.
Parents wanting to help their children adjust to life's stresses may want to turn down the noise in their home, says a Purdue University professor of psychological sciences.
Despite the headlines and the lurid details, why does the public continue to support Bill Clinton? An historian of presidential politics offers an opinion in this op-ed piece by a professor of History at Mississippi State University.
A powerful new psychological tool that shows a shocking number of people -- as many as 90 to 95 percent -- display the unconscious roots of prejudice will be demonstrated at a 10 a.m. PDT press conference Tuesday, Sept. 29 at the University of Washington by UW and Yale psychologists.
A multidisciplinary team of Temple University researchers is evaluating a Philadelphia child care project to determine what resources are useful in increasing access to quality and affordable child care to low-income children and their families.
1. Some farmers in the midwest are looking at a 200 percent income drop this year. 2. A noted child development specialist counters current claims that parents don'thave much impact on how a child will turn out. 3. A consequence of America's aging population could be a big shortage of elderly-care nurses.
Official poverty rate data to be released on Thursday, September 24 are likely to tell an incomplete story about economic disadvantage in the United States, according to experts associated with theNorthwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
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