W hat a great stroke of luck this winter for the National Basketball Association (NBA). After the walkout of 2011 that featured multimillionaires arguing with billionaires over their fair share of the league revenues, when most sports fans could not be coaxed away for the National Football League playoff games and the National Hockey League, enter phenom Jeremy Lin to save the face of the NBA. ...

In this book Miss Jephcott, author of Girls Growing Up, gives us a picture of 100 ordinary working-class girls in three very different parts of England. The one thing they have in common is that at the time of the study they were all over 17 and under 21. From the girls themselves the author has learned about the interests and thoughts of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 20, and the resul...

The southeastern United States is characterized as humid subtropical and is subject to extended periods of high ambient temperature and relative humidity. Because the primary nonevaporative means of cooling for the cow (radiation, conduction, convection) become less effective with rising ambient temperature, the cow becomes increasingly reliant upon evaporative cooling in the form of sweating a...

A review of the question of the usefulness of reserving waters for protection from exploitation in the whitebait fishery was undertaken at a small workshop. Creation of reserves has social, fisheries management and conservation imperatives. Administration of reserves has costs for the Department of Conservation. Evaluation of the value of reserves as places where whitebait stocks are protected ...