People do not always take action to attain their desired possible selves—after all, whether consciously or nonconsciously, taking current action makes sense if there is an open path toward attaining the desired self, but not if paths are closed. Following this logic, children from families with fewer assets may lower their expectations for school success and plan to engage in less effort in sch...

Each year Medicare's Board of Trustees issues a report that describes the financial condition of the Medicare program in the near term and over the next 75 years. Similar to recent trustees reports, the 2008 report projects that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted in 2019, at which time scheduled income will cover 78 percent of expenditures. Looking at these projections, s...

Total circulation 33 532 100 32 412 100 Association Mieux Prescrire (AMP), a non-profit organisation governed by the French law of 1 July 1901, publishes the journals la revue Prescrire and Prescrire International, and offers several continuing education programmes for healthcare professionals (a). As AMP is engaged in an economic activity, it is subject to the regulations governing taxation, e...