A recent Swedish study finds that teens' put most of the blame for bullying behavior on the bully or the victim, and not on their peers or the school environment. Christie Nicholson reports
Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, via University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Short Story of the Day at American Literature. This site has thousands of shorts stories as well as classic novels and literature. The short story of the day is updated daily with a great short story for you to read.
Looks at contemporary American culture through austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption)
ACC/AHA Guidelines for Coronary Angiography: Executive Summary and Recommendations A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Coronary Angiography) Developed in collaboration
Ex: Managing the Metric vs Managing the Patient: The Physician’s View of Pay for Performance, Inpatient Management Guidelines for People with Diabetes, Reducing Health Care Costs for Plan Members with Congestive Heart Failure...
"An American Self-Portrait. This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something."
Founded in Cap François, Saint Domingue (now Haiti) in August 1785, the Cercle des Philadelphes was one of the most prestigious colonial learned societies of the Ancien Regime. During its brief seven year existence, the Cercle pursued an agenda of promoting improvements in agriculture, manufactures, the arts and sciences, published five volumes of memoirs, and established correspondence with their peers in the American Philosophical Society and other learned societies. Their foreign membership included both Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.