American Industries—No. 1

1 Overview of Protecting the American Homeland

In a forthcoming Brookings volume (Protecting the American Homeland, by Michael O’Hanlon, Peter Orszag, Ivo Daalder, Mac Destler, David Gunter, Robert Litan, and James Steinberg), we propose a homeland security strategy to deter extremely destructive terrorist attacks. The standard we set for focusing homeland security efforts is the prevention of those attacks that would involve the loss of th...

The Internet and American Business (Chapter 1)

1 American Dream or American Obsession ? The Economic Benefits and Costs of Homeownership

Homeownership, like baseball and hotdogs, is an integral part of the American culture. Over the past 70 years, the U.S. government has devoted significant public resources to encouraging and promoting homeownership. (See Housing Policies That Promote Homeownership for a summary of the various programs.) The percentage of households that live in housing units they own has risen from around 40 pe...

Elevated caveolin-1 levels in African-American versus white-American prostate cancer.

Clinical studies suggest that African-American (AA) prostate cancer patients manifest a more aggressive form of the disease compared with white prostate cancer patients. However, the biological underpinnings of this potential difference remain unresolved. To address this issue, we used specific quantitative immunostaining protocols to determine whether a panel of biomarkers related to apoptosis...

Distinguishing Type 2 Diabetes from Type 1 Diabetes in African American and Hispanic American Pediatric Patients

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that clinical observations made at patient presentation can distinguish type 2 diabetes (T2D) from type 1 diabetes (T1D) in pediatric patients aged 2 to 18. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Medical records of 227 African American and 112 Hispanic American pediatric patients diagnosed as T1D or T2D were examined to compare parameters in the two diseases. Age at presentatio...