Book Review: The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is. by William H. Rehnquist.

Book review: The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is. By William H. Rehnquist. New York: William Morrow & Company. 1987. Pp. 338. Reviewed by: Patrick J. Schiltz

Effects of Corn (Zea mays L.) Stover Removal and Leaching on Soil Test and Whole Plant K Levels in Corn and K Fertilization/High-Input Treatments on Soybean Using Site-Specific Management to Increase Soybean (Glycine max) Production in South Dakota

Potassium is important for crop production. Corn stover removal has the potential to reduce exchangeable and soluble soil potassium (K+) needed for optimal plant growth in addition to grain yield. An experiment was conducted in Aurora, SD, USA, to observe the effects of corn stover removal on water soluble and exchangeable soil test K+ (STK) levels and corn grain yields across a five-year period. Abundant K+ reserves were recorded between the initial and final sampling periods. While corn grain yields were affected by removing corn biomass, exchangeable and solution K+ levels were relatively unaffected by stover removal. Potassium fertilizer has the potential to mitigate yield decreases associated with corn stover removal. An on-farm cooperation amongst producers who have had an extensive history of corn stover removal was initiated. Two K+ fertilization rates were spread per acre across half-mile strips in spring 2014; 250 lbs K2O and 0 lbs K2O. Initial (spring) and final (fall) soil sampling quantified STK values. Stomatal conductance and tissue sampling indicated K+ fertilization influences on crop physiology and K+ concentrations, respectively. Yield monitor data from treatment strips were cleaned and analyzed. Yield difference maps were generated through statistical software programs to examine yield responses to K+ fertilizer. While yield increases were not economically sufficient, a wide degree of site-specific variability existed between sampling periods and points, site locations, and season. Nitrogen (N) fertilization has the potential to increase soybean grain yield. Onfarm cooperators applied nitrogen fertilizer in the encapsulated urea nitrogen (ESN) form in two rates across half-mile strips at R1 growth stage in July 2014; 0 lbs N/acre and 75 lbs N/acre strips (replicated at least twice per field). Spatial variability in yield responses across soil topography and elevations was seen. While yield gains were statistically significant after applying ESN, economic analysis proved applications of ESN on soybean at R3 to be uneconomical in some localities while advantageous in others. Offsite K+ movement may occur following precipitation after corn physiological maturity, presumably through leaching off of corn biomass material. Whole corn plant portions were collected and tested for K+ following rainfall event. The portion of K+ leached relative to total plant K+ concentration indicated that corn stover biomass has great offsite movement, occurring as a function of rainfall inch rather than cumulative rainfall amounts

Provoking Introspection: A Reply to Galanter & Palay, Hull, Kelly, Lesnick, McLaughlin, Pepper, and Traynor

I have benefitted enormously from reading the Responses, and I am grateful to all of the commentators for entering into this conversation with me. There is much in each of the seven Responses to which I would like to reply-sometimes to agree, sometimes to disagree, sometimes to elaborate, sometimes just to express puzzlement. Unfortunately, though, my time and space are extremely limited. Given those limitations, I will first reply generally to Marc Galanter and Thomas Palay, Michael Kelly, Howard Lesnick, Stephen Pepper, and Michael Traynor, all of whom seem to be at least somewhat sympathetic to the underlying theme of my Article. I will then reply to Mary McLaughlin, the only commentator who is broadly unsympathetic to my underlying theme and who disagrees with me on a wide range of issues. Finally, I will reply to Kathleen Hull, who strongly disputes the evidence upon which I have relied in arguing that lawyers are unhappy

Book Review: The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is. by William H. Rehnquist.

Book review: The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is. By William H. Rehnquist. New York: William Morrow & Company. 1987. Pp. 338. Reviewed by: Patrick J. Schiltz

On Being a Happy, Healthy, and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession

Dear Law Student: I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the profession that you are about to enter is one of the most unhappy and unhealthy on the face of the earth--and, in the view of many, one of the most unethical. The good news is that you can join this profession and still be happy, healthy, and ethical. I am writing to tell you how. I. THE WELL-BEING OF LAWYERS Lawyers play an enormously important role in our society. It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us-our governments, our business, our private lives. Thus you might expect that a lot of people would be concerned about the physical and mental health of lawyers. You would be wrong. Contrary to the old joke, scientists have not replaced laboratory rats with lawyers, and medical literature has little to say about the well-being of attorneys. At the same time, many law professors-at least those teaching at the fifty or so schools that consider themselves to be in the Top Twenty -do not care much about lawyers. Increasingly, faculties of elite schools and aspiring elite schools consist of professors who have not practiced law, who have little interest in teaching students to practice law, and who pay scant attention to the work of practicing lawyers. Even law professors like me-law professors who practiced law for several years, who love teaching, and who are intensely interested in the work of lawyers--often do not have the training or resources to conduct empirical research about the legal profession. As a result, legal scholarship also has little to say about the well-being of attorneys. If one looks hard enough, though, one can scratch up some in- formation about the health and happiness of attorneys. And this in- formation-although rather sparse and, in some cases, of limited value-strongly suggests that lawyers are in remarkably poor health and quite unhappy

SHORT-DISTANCE FREESTYLE PERFORMANCE OF SWIMMERS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AT THE SYDNEY 2000 PARALYMPIC GAMES

The purpose of this investigation was to compare the short-distance freestyle swimming performances of male and female swimmers with an intellectual disability and to examine gender-specific differences in technique between the 50 m and 100 m freestyle events. Data were collected at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games using a video-based competition analysis procedure. Several performance variables were measured during the four phases (start, free swim, turn, finish) of each event. In general, men swam, started, turned and finished the race more quickly than the women. Although the men performed most race components faster, the strategies used by men and women changed in similar ways across the two freestyle distances