Telehealth: Impact on the State of Healthcare in Mississippi

Symposium: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and the Law: The Real World Effects of Law on Mississippi Business and Entrepreneurial Endeavor

Water Pollution Control in Washington

Puget Sound provides a disposal site for various municipal and industrial wastes. This Comment discusses the Washington Pollution Control Commission\u27s attempts to secure improved water quality in the area. Because the pulp industry is the largest polluter in the region,1 the Comment focuses more sharply on the Commission\u27s activity in securing abatement from this industry

Disease and Cure?

Sunstein uses Franklin\u27s remark to make two related points. First, citizens bear the burden of maintaining the American republic as a healthy, vibrant place; being a citizen is decidedly different from being a consumer. The former has duties, the latter wants (pp. 113-23). Second, and this is the gist of the slender book, the republic is jeopardized by the possibilities of the Internet. Sunstein assumes the correctness of MIT technology specialist Nicholas Negroponte\u27s conclusion that in the not-too-distant future we will be able to create a Daily Me on the Internet that will provide the personalized information (including news) that each person chooses for him or herself. While some Internet enthusiasts have seen the Daily Me as a utopian vision, Sunstein sees instead a version of Huxley\u27s Brave New World. He fears that users will isolate themselves from society at large by using the Daily Me as an echo chamber[] (p. 65) to preexisting views and wants, perfectly calibrated to filter out the new and different. Sunstein\u27s healthy democracy has two requirements of its citizenry. First, they must have an appropriate amount of culturally shared experiences. Second, they must engage in a number of unanticipated encounters with unexpected and different people. The shared experiences help provide the culture\u27s social glue. They allow citizens who do not know each other and would not otherwise be aware of alternatives to their own positions to become acquainted with differing views while nevertheless holding something in common to discuss. The great general-interest intermediaries - television networks, newspapers, Time, and Newsweek - provide this common information to all Americans without regard to geography or ideology. These generalinterest intermediaries maintain sufficient commonality that the issues and problems they discuss will thus be readily available to all. This sets them apart from other common cultural institutions like the entertainment or advertising industries, which rarely focus on the public issues of the day

Mr. Justice Douglas

The average American, according to William O. Douglas, is an independent, rough and ready kind of fellow who wants to take a swing on his own. That statement goes a long way toward describing Douglas himself. Given his drive and intelligence, however, it would be inappropriate to equate Douglas with the average American. He was, as his more than forty years of public service demonstrated, one of the extraordinary Americans in our history

Water Pollution Control in Washington

Puget Sound provides a disposal site for various municipal and industrial wastes. This Comment discusses the Washington Pollution Control Commission\u27s attempts to secure improved water quality in the area. Because the pulp industry is the largest polluter in the region,1 the Comment focuses more sharply on the Commission\u27s activity in securing abatement from this industry