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| Clipping Service: Jack Latona is a voracious and omniverous reader. He recommmends a wide spectrum of topics. Before an article is summarized or placed in a topic, a short reference goes to the Clippings Page. You are visiting the CLIPPING SERVICE. You will see items arranged by date. This is an archive of the avalanche of topics that the Center is sifting through. Once a topic has been summarized, a link is made to the appropriate topic. This system will allow you to visit the clippings for a particular month and then jump to a specific topic, where the item is summarized and a reference to the newspaper or magazine article is given. You are here on the Clippings Page. |
| Clippings and references appear hear in chronological order. There will be links made to specific topic areas. These are articles tht the Center's staff have highlighted for internal use and we recommend these items for your consideration. "It's all connected." |
| 2001 May 11 Advantage athletic edge maybe be from altered genes (New York Times) Comments: It's all coming, folks�.. Calif bets the house on energy conservation (NYTimes) Comments: The only thing to do in the short term�. Utilities see conservation as good business. (NY Times) Comments: This runs counter to the Bush administration's position. May 10 Health and Race An article about racial disparity in medical care which pointed out blacks get fewer cardiac intervention techniques than whites. Summary: It doesn't matter if their doctor is black or white. It's unclear where the source of the difference lies. It's not egregious discrimination on the part of the doctors. Is it a class based decision-making process or are there other factors, such as the blacks manifest fewer symptoms of cardiac difficulties or other factors? A far more important article was ignored by the press... which describes the impact of childhood lead ponsoning and the fact that even anything other than eradication of lead sources primarily lead paint in older buildings will not prevent serious and permanent damage to cognitive functionong. Leading to deficits in academic achivemetn, abstract thinking, attention span, conceptual raesoning, visuo-speacial perception in children wth maodreately high blood lead levels. This article appeared in the New England Jounal of Medicine, May 10, 2001 Comments about the Future of Health and Race: This is an issue that has been ignore dby the media and by public policy makers while we have spent billions on removing asbestos, much of which was not a threat to anyone's health. Ripping out asbestos tiles creates asbestos dust. |
Here are some of the web sites and publications that The Center monitors: www.utne.com The Utne Reader www.nytimes.com www.washingtonpost.com www.latimes.com www.elnuevoherald.com www.economist.com www.discover.com www.science.com www.npr.org |
| If you see a large area of white space, don't worry... this space will be filled with your comments and suggestions of other references (books, movies, articles) that people should consider... |
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