One of my intellectual mentors, John Kenneth Galbraith, whose ancestry is good Scottish Calvinist, in a newly published essay argues that major corporations are run by their managements largely for their own benefit, and without public control or oversight. If he is right, sooner or later the public, the consumer, or those that represent them, like the New York Public Prosecutor (District Attor...

Despite significant changes in the treatment of common eye conditions like cataract and age-related macular degeneration, reading difficulty remains the most common complaint of patients referred for low vision services. Clinical reading tests have been widely used since Jaeger introduced his test types in 1854. A brief review of the major developments in clinical reading tests is provided, fol...

Our results compared with those in previous experiments [11] indicate that Flowmenu offers as much of an advantage over tool palette selection as does Toolglass [2], a twohanded technique. At the same time, it is not significantly slower than marking menus. Additional results show that selection performance depends on distance around the menu, but not on initial position or direction. These res...

The discussion about inputs for state power clearly underscores the fact that few—if any—such elements exist in raw " natural " form. Rather, these inputs are actually " intermediate goods, " that is to say, resources created by prior societal or state actions with an eye to being incorporated in the production of still other " final goods. " While the nature of the final goods is invariant in ...