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• Thomas Merton's inclusivity and ecumenism; silencing the gong and cymbals

  Author:John. Wu, Jr.From:Cross Currents (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20098,016 words Report The Making of an Ecumenist Passionate love of God and neighbor, and of learning, along with a prodigious gift of prophecy, appear to be unassailable signs of a saint. As a member of his religious community and...

• The pursuit of happiness: a businessman's database offers guidance toward contentment

  Author:Robert K.J. KillhefferFrom:Omni (Vol. 16, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 1994701 words Article Entrepreneur Gary Spirer's database 'Investing in Your Destiny' is a self-help resource containing quotes, anecdotes and summaries of his ideas and those of great thinkers. The database surveys patterns used by...

• Merwin's Garden.

  Author:Dana IsokawaFrom:Poets & Writers Magazine (Vol. 47, Issue 5)

  Sept-Oct 20191,132 words Article 1300LOn the northern coast of the Hawai'ian island Maui, off a road leading down to the cliffs above the shore, a lush forest grows. Mango trees covered in vines stand next to palms as tall as eighty feet, while heliconia and...

• Evolutionary Aspects of Nutrition and Health: Diet, Exercise, Genetics and Chronic Disease

  Author:TINA MOFFATFrom:Human Biology (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20011,079 words Book review Evolutionary Aspects of Nutrition and Health: Diet, Exercise, Genetics and Chronic Disease, edited by A.P. Simopoulos. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol. 84. Basel, Germany: Karger, 1999. 145 pp. $175.00...

• Speech recognition and sensory integration: a 240-year-old theorem helps explain how people and machines can integrate auditory and visual information to understand speech

  Authors:Dominic W. Massaro and David G. StorkFrom:American Scientist (Vol. 86, Issue 3)

  May-June 19985,171 words Article The capacity of the brain to combine sensory information has perplexed scientists who have spent valuable research time trying to understand how people integrate sensory information in speech perception. In some cases,...

• Through the lens of the Shoah: the Holocaust as a paradigm for documenting genocide testimonies

  Author:Noah ShenkerFrom:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Spring-Summer 201612,752 words Report 1810LNo longer able to devote itself exclusively to testimonies of the Holocaust, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute has branched out to house interviews from other genocides including those perpetrated in Armenia, Rwanda...

• Bureaucratic administration: experimentation and immigration law

  Author:Joseph LandauFrom:Duke Law Journal (Vol. 65, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 201623,748 words Article 1880LB. Immigration Innovation in Action The following four case studies highlight a number of different contexts in which frontline officers have put their enforcement discretion to creative uses. On certain occasions,...