Past is prologue: Electronic New Variorum Shakespeares

What is past is prologue.

Alfred Blalock had a remarkable career as a clinical surgeon, laboratory investigator, and a teacher of medical students and residents. This article examines certain potential critical influences on his career, including Drs William Halsted and Barney Brooks, and Dr Blalock's early years as a resident and subsequently a faculty member at Vanderbilt. It is intended as a focused review, utilizing...

Is Education’s Past Its 2050 Prologue?1

I ask you to consider the future of education, especially of postsecondary education. If you choose to extrapolate from familiar paragons of academic excellence, you may gloss over a challenging policy conundrum. Progressive leaders around the world are asking for help from education leaders. Their policy goal is to scale up, often to unprecedented levels, the intellectual-capital pool of posts...

Projecting Social Security earnings: past is prologue.

Accurate projections of lifetime earnings are useful in projecting Social Security benefits, trust fund balances, and economic resources of the elderly and the effects of changes in Social Security policy. This article projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) matched to Social Security records of annual ear...

Mitosis futures: the past is prologue

The mechanisms by which cells organize and segregate their chromosomes have been under close scrutiny for years, and significant progress has been made in understanding how mitosis works. Modern cell biology has identified most of the molecules that underlie mitotic spindle function, but the ways in which they are organized and controlled to make an effective and accurate cellular machine are e...

What's Past is Prologue: Precedent in Literature and Law