Groups praise, criticize Bush transition choices

Independence-supportive Praise versus Interdependence-promoting Praise

Population groups in dietary transition

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effects of dietary acculturation in minority groups in the Nordic countries, including immigrants from non-Western societies. METHODS A search was performed in Medlin33e/PubMed and SweMed+ for articles published in 1990-2011. RESULTS A total of 840 articles were identified, with a final 32 articles used to tabulate results which were included in the prim...

In praise of petroleum?

Among other difficulties (1), the World Summit on Sustainable Development -Rio+10 struggled with defining “sustainability.” Typical of efforts to make concrete this slippery concept was a preparatory paper addressing one of the most pressing issues in human development, how to bring modern energy services to the one-third of humanity whose development and survival requirements suffer from lack ...

In praise of deaneries.

If you look at the foot of this article, you will see that my address is given as the London Deanery. This is possibly appearing there for the last time. I am not retiring just yet, but the structure of our institution is about to change, and possibly the name will do so too. This gives me an opportunity to write about deaneries, and why they have been such a force for good. In case you are uns...

In praise of hierarchy.

Hierarchy has not had its day. After 3,000 years as the preferred structure for large organizations, managerial hierarchy is still the most natural and effective organizational form that a big company can employ. Now, as in the past, the key to organizational success is individual accountability, and hierarchy preserves unambiguous accountability for getting work done. Unfortunately, hierarchy ...