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Tobacco Counter-Marketing And Policy In A University Setting: The Use Of Experiential Learning Projects To Bring About Change
Four million deaths from tobacco-related illness and disease occurred worldwide in 1999 and that number is likely to increase to 10 million by the 2030s. Each year, 430,000 Americans die from such causes. Tobacco use among young people has remained constant, and in some cases, increased even though information regarding the hazards of tobacco consumption has received growing attention over the last decade, The present paper discusses the process and results of an undergraduate experiential learning project designed to 1) educate college students about the hazards of tobacco consumption, 2) prevent or reduce college students’ consumption of tobacco products through counter-marketing efforts, and 3) assess and change current tobacco related policies on campus. The two-semester project incorporated both fall and spring Promotion Management and Health Care Management classes and involved cooperation from the College of Business, the Medical School, and the Office of Student Affairs
The ambivalent shadow of the pre-Wilsonian rise of international law
The generation of American international lawyers who founded the American Society of International Law in 1906 and nurtured the soil for what has been retrospectively called a “moralistic legalistic approach to international relations” remains little studied. A survey of the rise of international legal literature in the U.S. from the mid-19th century to the eve of the Great War serves as a backdrop to the examination of the boosting effect on international law of the Spanish American War in 1898. An examination of the Insular Cases before the US Supreme Court is then accompanied by the analysis of a number of influential factors behind the pre-war rise of international law in the U.S. The work concludes with an examination of the rise of natural law doctrines in international law during the interwar period and the critiques addressed.by the realist founders of the field of “international relations” to the “moralistic legalistic approach to international relation
Addressing Agency Costs Through Private Litigation in the U.S: Tensions, Disappointments, and Substitutes
The Legal Liability Regime: How Well Is It Doing in Assuring Quality, Accounting for Costs, and Coping with an Evolving Reality in the Healthcare Marketplace?
Quantum Physics and Human Language
Human languages employ constructions that tacitly assume specific properties
of the limited range of phenomena they evolved to describe. These assumed
properties are true features of that limited context, but may not be general or
precise properties of all the physical situations allowed by fundamental
physics. In brief, human languages contain `excess baggage' that must be
qualified, discarded, or otherwise reformed to give a clear account in the
context of fundamental physics of even the everyday phenomena that the
languages evolved to describe. The surest route to clarity is to express the
constructions of human languages in the language of fundamental physical
theory, not the other way around. These ideas are illustrated by an analysis of
the verb `to happen' and the word `reality' in special relativity and the
modern quantum mechanics of closed systems.Comment: Contribution to the festschrift for G.C. Ghirardi on his 70th
Birthday, minor correction
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