Associate Professor Joseph John Hallein academic and consultant.
Born Needham, Massachusetts, 10 February 1943 Died Mackay, Queensland, 26 April 2005, aged 62 THERE WAS AN AIR ABOUT JOE HALLEIN THAT PEOPLE INSTINCTIVELY LIKED. SOMETHING of a rough diamond, he was both an inspired university teacher and a great lover of nature. Perhaps curiously...

Using the theory of reasoned action to explain physician intention to prescribe emergency contraception.
Emergency contraception, or postcoital birth control, is used less often in the United States than in other countries. (1) Many factors influence this difference, including differences in U.S. prescribing rates, women's and physicians' knowledge and attitudes, and accessibility. A complex dynamic exists among these factors, independent of prevailing attitudes...

New England's crown jewel: the White Mountains of New Hampshire: condominiums and townhouses provide the perfect home base for a fabuluous family getaway in the lush forests of the Northeast. (Going Places).
"IT'S A BIG WORLD out there; why keep going back to the same place?," asked a friend late last summer upon learning that we would once again be taking our family vacation in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We'd also visited there the year before, and the year...

Pushers and junkies: the current debt crisis in the developing world is the product of Cold War rivalry, corporate interests and the actions of greedy, corrupt dictators.
"I place economy among the first and most important of Republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." So wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816 in a letter to William Plumer, the governor of New Hampshire. However, contrary to the wisdom of the great...

Following a Theme Park Trail Along the Eastern Seaboard.
Visits to Sesame Place, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, and Kings Dominion, sandwiched around a side trip to the Baltimore Zoo and National Aquarium, proved to be fantastic family fare. DURING THE TIME we dated and through the early years of our marriage, my wife had a...

TAKING LIFE IN STRIDE.
Byline: Bob Rodman The Register-Guard One day, Marla Runyan surmised, there will be a Prefontaine Classic track and field meet staging its annual spring spectacular, with its Hayward Field crowd dropping names left and right. "And one day," Runyan said, "they will be saying, `Marla...

Calendar of events.
Camps/Clinics September 5-7 AHA Approved Intermediate Hippotherapy Course, Canton, GA. Contact: Bethany, (770) 569-9118 or NARHA, PO Box 3350, Denver, CO 80233; (800) 369-7433, (303) 452-1212, FAX (303) 252-4610; narha@narha.org. September 6-15 Training Camp and USA Paralympic Table Tennis Competition, Colorado...

REBEKAH NOTTINGHAM.
Key role at BAE North America Amidst the turmoil back in the UK, BAE Systems has appointed Rebekah Nottingham vice president business development for Information and Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS)in BAE North America's Washington DC area office. Nottingham's appointment comes hot on the heels of the completion...

The running men: how candidates decide to run for president reveals how prepared they are to win.
Campaign chronicles, the spiritual descendants of Teddy White's trail-blazing The Making of the President, have sadly become a dying genre. No matter how beautifully crafted and meticulously researched, these now-it-can-be-told political narratives, which traditionally come out after the campaign is long over, suffer from a built-in flaw--readers know the...

Socialist "Saint": revered as a virtuous American hero, the real Martin Luther King, Jr. colluded with communists, plagiarized his doctoral thesis, and led an immoral lifestyle. (In Light of the Past).
Fifty years ago, a black preacher's speech captured the dream of a nation from which racial turmoil had been abolished. "We, Negro-Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrims'...