Is the Press Anti-Labor Or Just Out of Touch...

[Excerpt] At 12:01 a.m., November 1, All Saints\u27 Day 1983, the Chrysler Corporation\u27s stamping plant in Twinsburg, Ohio, suddenly fell silent. Members of United Auto Workers Local 122 shut down their machines for a strike. As the door panels, floor pans, and other parts they produce stopped flowing across the country from Twinsburg, the only source of supply for these parts, half a dozen Chrysler assembly plants fell silent too. In New York that night, on NBC Nightly News, Tom Brokaw called it a wildcat strike -—an unauthorized walkout. On the other coast, a Los Angeles Times editor changed the first paragraphs of the Detroit bureau\u27s story, making it Robert Weissman\u27s strike, a walkout almost singlehandedly engineered by Weissman, the president of the Twinsburg local union. The alterations made the story conform more closely with other coverage around the country, which implied that a pack of militants in Twinsburg was knocking Chrysler down just as the company was getting up off its knees. That was Chrysler\u27s line on the strike, but it was just one way of looking at it. Weissman, a man who does not regard the title of militant as a smear, has few fans among the top leaders of the UAW. But authorization for his local\u27s strike had been carefully cleared through the union\u27s regional director, its Chrysler director, and its new president, Owen Bieber, following fifteen fruitless months of local bargaining. As often happens in labor stories, a lot of good questions went unasked in Twinsburg. For example, what was the strike about

Cancer-related masculinity threat in young adults with testicular cancer: the moderating role of benefit finding.

Background and Objectives: Perceiving benefit from a health-related stressor such as cancer has been associated with better psychological adjustment in various cancer populations; however, it has not been studied in the context of young adulthood or gender-related cancer threat. This study investigated the role of benefit finding in psychological adjustment among young adults with testicular cancer, and whether BF moderates cancer-related masculine threat.Design: This study utilizes a cross-sectional design with a diverse sample of young adult testicular cancer survivors.Methods: Men with a history of testicular cancer (N = 171; M age = 25.2, SD = 3.32) completed questionnaires of benefit finding, cancer-related masculine threat, and indicators of psychological adjustment.Results: Multiple regression analysis revealed that cancer-related masculine threat was associated with worse adjustment across indicators and that benefit finding was related to higher positive affect and lower depressive symptoms. Benefit finding attenuated the potentially adverse effect of cancer-related masculine threat on negative affect and depressive symptoms such that cancer-related masculine threat demonstrated a stronger association with negative affect and depressive symptoms for people with relatively low BF.Conclusions: For young adult men with testicular cancer, finding benefit appears to promote well-being in the face of masculine cancer threat

SITE INDEX OF PAPER BIRCH IN ALASKA

Thesis contributed as part of collection donated by Tom Malone.Height growth patterns and site index were developed using stem analysis of four dominant or codominant trees from 64 plots located in 50 year-old plus, natural, fully stocked, even-aged stands of paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) in Interior and Southcentral Alaska. Observed height-over-age data were modeled using the Chapman-Richards nonlinear growth model. Plots were grouped into five site quality classes based on tree height at breast-height age of 50 years. Polymorphic site index curves were developed from the data. The families of curves indicate different height growth patterns (polymorphism). Comparison of existing Alaskan anamorphic site index curves with the polymorphic site index curves developed in this study demonstrates differences in predicted heights at different levels of site quality. The polymorphic site index curves developed in this study should replace existing anamorphic curves since they represent a more accurate pattern of height growth for the range of paper birch in Alaska

The experience of financial stress among emerging adult cancer survivors.

Objective: The experience of cancer-related financial stress was examined within the developmental context of emerging adulthood.Methodological approach: This study is a secondary analysis of data drawn from two samples of testicular or hematologic cancer survivors. In-depth interviews from 52 emerging adult (EA) cancer survivors, ages 18-29, were coded by combining thematic analysis with an abductive approach.Findings: Emergent themes included some common to most age groups, including worries about medical costs and availability of health insurance, as well as specific age-related concerns, such as fertility preservation. Financial stress appeared to interrupt developmental tasks of emerging adulthood, including completing an education, establishing independence, and managing relationships. Surprisingly, financial stress was experienced as a benefit for some participants.Conclusion: Financial stress affects EA cancer survivors in unique ways. To provide support, health professionals should consider survivors' developmental life stage to understand their financial stress, and ultimately, to improve quality of life

Electrodynamic Tethers for Novel LEO Missions

The exponential increase of launch system size - and cost - with deltaV makes missions requiring large total impulse cost prohibitive. Northrop Grumman and partners have matured a fundamentally different method for generating propulsion using electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) that escapes the limitations of the rocket equation. With essentially unlimited delta V, we can perform new classes of missions that are currently unaffordable or unfeasible