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Glenn A. Goodfriend: Amino acid racemization geochemist, geochronologist, paleontologist, Quaternarist, geoarchaeologist, wine connoisseur and collector, gourmand, and general good friend

On October 15, 2002, just before the national Geological Society of America GSA meetings that he rarely missed, Glenn A. Goodfriend passed away prematurely at age 51. Following a serious illness that began early in 2002, he died at George Washington University Hospital from pneumonia and other complications due to rhinocerebral mucomycosis, a systemic fungal infection. Glenn is survived by his father and stepmother, Morton and Theresa Goodfriend. A multidisciplinary scientist, Glenn studied evolutionary land snail ecology, amino acid racemization biogeochemistry, and geochronology, and applied these to problems in Quaternary stratigraphy, paleontology, zoology, geoarchaeology, paleoclimatology, and the marine sciences. A native of New Rochelle, NY, Glenn graduated with a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Florida in 1983. From 1983 to 1992, he worked as a PDF, research scientist, and finally senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. From 1990 to 1998, he was a Senior Research Associate in the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. From 1993 to 1995, he served as an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. From 1998 until his death, Glenn was a Research Professor at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at George Washington University. Glenn published more than 70 scientific papers, many of them seminal classics, not counting the many left unfinished on his computer. As a broad scientific thinker, he collaborated on projects ranging from taphonomy to 14C calibration. After organizing the 1998 international AAR conference, Glenn served as the lead editor on Perspectives in Amino Acid and Protein Geochemistry (Goodfriend et al., 2000). In 2002, he held almost 400 k$ in NSF grants. We will remember Glenn for his amazing ability to help others and his phenomenal attention to scientific detail. He allowed colleagues and students alike to pick his brain about lab procedures and research ideas, and he would take time from his busy schedule to troubleshoot experiments. He was indefatigable in the field and laboratory. Glenn loved good food and chocolate, as well as tasting and collecting fine wines. His cellar had several hundred bottles, from which he often treated friends to an exceptional bouquet. His many colleagues will sorely miss his scientific creativity and contributions. Like a fine wine, he was gone too soon.

A Conversation with William Gould

William Gould is President of StataCorp. He was born in Burbank, California, on January 21, 1952. He received a B.A. in economics from UCLA in 1974 and a C. Phil. in economics from UCLA in 1977, after initially majoring in physics and then engineering. He studied economics in the Ph.D. program at UCLA and was simultaneously a Research Fellow at The Rand Corporation. He did not turn in his dissertation in labor economics before becoming a Senior Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Stanford, California, in 1977. In 1979, he become a Senior Economist at Unicon Research Corporation in Los Angeles, a company that he helped to found. He cofounded and served as Vice-President of Computing Resource Center in 1982, the company that went on to develop Stata. Bill became President of CRC in 1990 and, in 1993, CRC was renamed StataCorp.

What can national data sets tell us about inclusion and pupil achievement?

Recent developments in the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) have produced a national pupil database (NPD) that contains information about the attainments of individual pupils. Every child in the country has been allocated a unique pupil number (UPN), which means that the academic progress of individuals can be tracked over time. It is possible to combine data on attainment with the demographic information which is obtained from the pupil level annual schools census (PLASC). These innovations make it possible to combine ‘value added’ information about pupil progress from one key stage of education to the next with data from the PLASC, which contains pupil background information, to produce a single matched data set. Thus the NPD and the PLASC are able to provide much of the necessary information to explore issues of individual pupil performance over their school careers. Notably, more specific information about the academic achievement of pupils who are described as having ‘special educational needs’ is now available. Lani Florian, lecturer in inclusion and special educational needs, Martyn Rouse, senior lecturer in inclusion and special educational needs, Kristine Black‐Hawkins, senior research associate, and Stephen Jull, research associate, are all based at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education. In this article, drawing on their work in the ‘Inclusion and Achievement Project’, they explore the problems and possibilities for researching issues of pupil achievement and inclusion through the use of these new national data sets.

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Introduction

Journal of Burma Studies, Volume 9 7 INTRODUCTION Anna Allo�* This volume of the Journal of Burma Studies originates from a symposium held in September 1998 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, to honor the achievements of U Pe Maung Tin. The meeting was organized by his youngest daughter, Daw Tin Tin Myaing (Brenda Stanley); it brought together scholars and former pupils from Burma, England, France, Germany, and Japan. The turbulent yearof1988shouldhaveseenthecelebrationofthecentenaryof his birth, but such a celebration only became possible ten years later. Some of the papers prepared for the 1998 symposium, revised and edited, are collected here, together with one by a leading Burmese historian, published in Burma in 1999. U Pe Maung Tin was the most eminent Burmese scholar of his time and one who pioneered the study of Burmese language, literature, and history in the newly founded University of Rangoon. He was a Christian from birth, yet early on in his career he mastered Pali, the language of Buddhism, and demonstrated an exceptional ability to translate complex Pali texts into fluent English and to interpret Buddhist doctrine to western scholars. Throughout his life he was a stimulating teacher, challenging his students to outdo him in their studies. And he did much to make the Burma Research Society and its journal one of the best of its kind in Southeast Asia. It is a great pleasure to have been asked to be guest editor of this volume as it gives me the opportunity to put on record my own personal experience of working with the great teacher—Hsaya-gyi—more than 50 years ago. As a beginning student of Burmese language and literature, I was immensely privileged at the age of twenty-three to have been given three hours a week of personal tuition by U Pe Maung Tin from * Senior ResearchAssociate in Burmese Studies, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. 8 Journal of Burma Studies, Volume 9 Anna Allo� November 1953 to January 1954. He had recently wri�en (see U Pe Maung Tin bibliography, this volume, no. 158) a book on Burmese syntax, which had just been reprinted in 15,000 copies for use in schools. I came fresh from the Department of Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies with the latest ideas for the analysis and description of Burmese grammar. As I recorded in my diary, we spent most of the time in amicable discussion and argument about the best way to describe Burmese grammar. Although Hsaya-gyi’s approach to grammatical description was greatly influenced by Pali and English grammar, his inquiring mind was fully open to newer methods of linguistic analysis. When, in March 1954, the Burma Research Society held a seminar in Rangoon on the relatively unfamiliar topic of linguistics, U Pe Maung Tin took part enthusiastically and himself read a paper, “Some Features of the Burmese Language” (see this volume, Allo�; Bernot). My article gives an outline of U Pe Maung Tin’s life and work as a Pali scholar, lifelong student of and promoter of Burmese language and literature, translator, historian, linguist, phonetician,teacher,andeditor.Italsoprovidesaguidetosome publications in Burma, in Burmese and English, containing tributes to U Pe Maung Tin by many former colleagues and pupils at two further symposia held in Rangoon in December 1998. The extensive bibliography compiled by Patricia Herbert in this volume makes clear his prodigious output in Burmese and English over the course of a lifetime of writing from age 23 to age 84. As editor of the Journal of the Burma Research Society, he made regular reviews one of its most important features. His first review of the Report of the Superintendent of the Archaeological Survey appeared in 1913 (see no. 32 in Herbert's bibliography, this volume), and of the Journal of the Pali Text Society in 1915 (see no. 40). His early interest in Burmese philology is shown in no. 37, which is a 30-page study of Burmese archaic words and expressions with English definitions. However, far from considering that only Journal of Burma Studies, Volume 9 9 Introduction Pali-related,seriousacademictopicsshouldappearinthe JBRS, U Pe Maung Tin...

Focus on Practice: Researching Special Needs

In the March 2002 issue of BJSE, Richard Rose argued that the agenda for research in special education should be determined by establishing ‘effective partnerships’ between teachers and researchers. He suggested that teachers are beginning to be more involved in research but that educational researchers needed to ‘take a lead in involving classroom practitioners in the development of school–based projects’. John Wilson, an author of many books on philosophy and education, and currently Senior Research Associate at the Oxford University Department of Educational Studies, agrees that, if educational research is to drive forward improvements in practice, it must engage ‘the minds and understandings of practitioners’. This article takes the debate further, however. John Wilson proposes that research into special educational needs has also to engage with an exploration of the meaning of the phrase ‘special needs’ and a review of the values that underpin the use of this phrase by practitioners, policy makers and researchers. He concludes that this process will entail the development of new forms of enquiry, new ways of working, and new ways of thinking about research and special educational needs.

Prosecuting war criminals: the case for decentralisation

Michelle Sieff is a Senior Research Associate on African Affairs at the Eurasia Group, a consulting company in New York City. Leslie Vinjamuri is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, and an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.1

Mifepristone for Early Medical Abortion: Experiences in France, Great Britain and Sweden

Rachel K. Jones is senior research associate, and Stanley K. Henshaw is senmorfellow, both at The Alan Guttmacher Institute, New York. In September 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved mifepristone (also known by the trade name Mifeprex or its original French name, RU-486) for use along with a prostaglandin for ending pregnancies up to 49 days from the onset of a woman's last menstrual period. The FDA-approved protocol involves the administration of 600 mg of mifepristone followed two days later by 400 mg of oral misoprostol administered at a medical facility. Many abortion providers soon adopted the method, at least on a trial basis, but it is not universally available. As of early 2002, two-thirds of providers belonging to the National Abortion Federation (NAF) were offering the method to eligible patients. 1 NAF members perform about half of all abortions in the United States, they include the majority of Planned Parenthood Federation of America facilities that provide abortions. The brief U.S. experience with mifeprnstone leaves many questions unanswered about its ultimate level of acceptance: How many abortion providers and physicians who have not previously offered abortion services will provide medical abortions using mifepristone? What proportion of abortion patients will choose medical abortion? How will the availability of mifepristone affect the overall abortion rate? Other questions concern the appropriate protocols that most providers in the United States will ultimately use for early medical abortion involving mifepristone. Experience in other countries indicates that protocols can vary in mifepristone dosage, the gestational limits that determine whether women are eligible for the method and whether the prostaglandin used to stimulate uterine contractions is administered at a medical facility or at a woman's home. The experience of European countries can shed light on these issues. Mifepristone is approved for use in most of Europe,* and three countries have had a decade or more of experience with its use: France, Great BritainT and Sweden. In this report, we synthesize information from national abortion statistics, professional guidelines and interviews with experts in these three countries to describe levels of

CLASSROOM CLIMATE IN AN ORTHODOX DAY SCHOOL: The Contribution of Emotional Intelligence, Demographics, and Classroom Context

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsIan J. CohenIan Cohen is a graduate student in the School Psychology Doctoral Program at Temple, University.Jeffrey S. KressJeffrey S. Kress, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Jewish Education and Senior Research Associate at the Wm. Davidson Graduate School, Jewish Theological Seminary.Maurice J. EliasMaurice J. Elias, Ph.D., is Professor, Psychology Department and Contributing Faculty, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University, and Leadership Team Vice Chair for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (www.CASEL.org).

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Classroom

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsPatrick T. TerenziniPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.Alberto F. CabreraPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.Carol L. ColbeckPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.Stefani A. BjorklundPatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.John M. ParentePatrick T. Terenzini is professor and senior scientist; Alberto F. Cabrera is associate professor and senior research associate; Carol L. Colbeck is assistant professor and research associate; Stefani A. Bjorklund is a graduate research assistant; and John M. Parente is a graduate research assistant. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The Pennsylvania State University.

Missile messages: Iran strikes MKO bases in Iraq

(2001). Missile messages: Iran strikes MKO bases in Iraq. The Nonproliferation Review: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 125-133.

Withering on the vine: the decline of indemnity health insurance.

Health Tracking Health AffairsVol. 19, No. 5 Withering On The Vine: The Decline Of Indemnity Health InsuranceJon R. Gabel, Paul B. Ginsburg, Heidi H. Whitmore, and Jeremy D. Pickreign AffiliationsJon Gabel is vice-president, Health System Studies, at the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) in Washington, D.C. Paul Ginsburg is president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, also in D.C. Heidi Whitmore is a senior research associate and Jeremy Pickreign is a statistician at the HRET.PUBLISHED:September/October 2000No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.19.5.152AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleTOPICSIndemnitiesPremiumsPreferred provider organizationsMarketsDeductiblesCoinsuranceManaged care plansInsurance providersManaged careCost sharing Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 9 History Published online 1 September 2000 InformationCopyright © by Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe authors are grateful to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the financial support that made this paper possible. They thank Samantha Hawkins for her research assistance and Jenna Rabideaux for her administrative support.PDF downloadCited byRepeat Annual Lung Cancer Screening After Baseline Screening Among Screen-Negative Individuals: No-Cost Coverage Is Not EnoughJournal of the American College of Radiology, Vol. 20, No. 1Health Economics, Policy and Law, Vol. 17, No. 3State Medicaid Programs Bring Managed Care Tenets to Fee for ServiceJournal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy, Vol. 22, No. 2Health Insurance is Dead; Long Live Health Insurance6 January 2021 | American Journal of Law & Medicine, Vol. 40, No. 2-3The Business of Interventional PulmonologyClinics in Chest Medicine, Vol. 34, No. 3Effects of State Managed Care Patient Protection Laws on Physician Satisfaction23 August 2007 | Medical Care Research and Review, Vol. 64, No. 5Service production and contract choice in primary physician servicesHealth Policy, Vol. 66, No. 1The impact of practice setting and financial incentives on career satisfaction and perceived practice limitations among surgeonsThe American Journal of Surgery, Vol. 183, No. 3Toward Full Mental Health Parity And BeyondDaniel P. Gitterman, Roland Sturm, and Richard M. Scheffler17 August 2017 | Health Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 4

The Third Glossop Lecture

The Third Glossop Lecturer is Professor Richard Chandler, Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, Imperial College, London. ⇓ Dick Chandler graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Loughborough in 1961 and gained an MSc in Foundation Engineering in 1965 from the University of Birmingham. In 1967 he completed his PhD at Birmingham University. Following a period as a Research Associate, later Senior Research Associate at Birmingham, Dick was appointed Lecturer in Soil Mechanics at Imperial College in 1969. In 1981, he was appointed Reader in Soil Mechanics and he has been Professor of Geotechnical Engineering since 1990. In 1990, Professor Chandler was awarded DSc(Eng) in Soil Mechanics and Engineering Geology by the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and has been a Fellow of the Geological Society and a …

Dr. Paul M. Borsenberger (1935-1998)— A Research Retrospective

This paper is a retrospective on the career and research accomplishments of the late Dr. Paul M. Borsenberger. A Senior Research Associate in the Eastman Kodak Company, Paul was internationally renowned for his accomplishments in electrophotographic photoreceptor technology and research on charge generation and transport in amorphous systems. With his passing on July 17, 1998, we lost a colleague and a friend. In this paper we summarize his major research accomplishments and provide guidance for those wishing to review his scientific output of over 140 research publications.

Test results on a new approach for fitting “ski-slope” hearing losses

Birgitta Gabriel, PhD, is Chief Audiologist and Senior Research Associate at the Hörzentrum Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany. Birger Kollmeier, PhD, MD, is Professor of Physics and Head of the Medical Physics Group, University of Oldenburg, and Scientific Director of the Hörzentrum Oldenburg. Correspondence to Dr. Gabriel at Hörzentrum Oldenburg, c/o Universität Oldenburg, Carl von Ossietzky Str. 9–11, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany, e-mail: [email protected]

Culture Clash: Assessing the Importance of Ideas in Security Studies

July 01 1998 Culture Clash: Assessing the Importance of Ideas in Security Studies Michael C. Desch Michael C. Desch Michael C. Desch is Assistant Director and Senior Research Associate at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and author of Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Michael C. Desch Michael C. Desch is Assistant Director and Senior Research Associate at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and author of Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming). Online Issn: 1531-4804 Print Issn: 0162-2889 © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.1998 International Security (1998) 23 (1): 141–170. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec.23.1.141 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Michael C. Desch; Culture Clash: Assessing the Importance of Ideas in Security Studies. International Security 1998; 23 (1): 141–170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/isec.23.1.141 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsInternational Security Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1998 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.1998 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The case for universal full‐scope safeguards on nuclear material

Dr. Annette Schaper is a Senior Research Associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany. During the next few decades, the international community faces the challenge of dealing with unprecedented amounts of inadequately secured fissile materials. This challenge has emerged as the result of sweeping nuclear arms reductions in Russia and the United States, insufficiently safeguarded civilian and military nuclear installations in the newly independent states (NIS), and the rapid development of the nuclear industry in East Asia. Stockpiles of such material are likely to continue growing, as further RussianAmerican nuclear reduction agreements (beyond START II) are likely, and both Moscow and Washington are all but certain to declare additional weapons-grade nuclear material excess to their defense requirements. So far, however, many aspects of these activities remain under national control and are not transparent to the international community. All the laudable progress made thus far toward nuclear disarmament, therefore, remains reversible, should the international situation deteriorate.

Building the Ethical Infrastructure of the Market in Post–Communist Countries: The Case of Bulgaria

This study considers major problems involved in seeking to build a post–communist ethical infrastructure for business transactions in Bulgaria. After an analysis of the basic economic and political realities of the present transition period, some recent empirical findings are presented concerning the emerging ethics and business culture, concluding with practical recommendations for the future. The author is Senior Research Associate and she also teaches the Social and Business Dimensions of Business in the Institute of Economics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 3, Aksakov Str., 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria; e–mail; ineco@bgearn.acad.bg.

Review Article: The Community Against Drugs

Review Article: The Community Against Drugs Get access COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: IN SEARCH OF EMPOWERMENT, Eric Schragge (ed.), Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1993, 141 pp., £11.99. Howard Williamson Howard Williamson Senior Research Associate School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of WalesCardiff, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Community Development Journal, Volume 32, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 187–189, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/32.2.187 Published: 01 April 1997

Tance Xianggang Guodu qianhou (Exploring Hong Kong's return to China), and: Jiuqiu hou Zhonggang di xin mianmao (The new face of China: Hong Kong after 1997) (review)

Reviews 195 In modern Chinese history, the line between soldier and civilian has rarely been a sharp one. McCord's warlords were drawn into politics by die legitimacy crisis and divided autiiority of the early Republic. Levich's Kwangsi soldier-politicians sought to create an island ofmodernization in a province that even today remains a backwater. Many ofLi's student nationalists wound up as cadres or officers in the Communist and Nationalist armies. Wou's rural Henan communists pursued an agenda that embraced both military security and social transformation . After 1949, on Taiwan and the mainland of China, Nationalists and Communists continued to wresde with the problem ofhow to incorporate soldiers into the rival party-states that were the legacy ofthe first half of the twentieth century in China. Steven I. Levine Boulder Run Research Steven I. Levine is Senior Research Associate at Boulder Run Research specializing in Chineseforeign policy. mi Frankie Fook-lun Leung. Tance Xianggang Guodu qianhou (Exploring Hong Kong's return to China). Hong Kong: Guangjiaojing Press, 1994. 287 pp. Paperback $15. 00, isbn 962-226-384-4. Frankie Fook-lun Leung. Jiuqiu hou Zhonggang di xin mianmao (The new face of China: Hong Kong after 1997). Hong Kong: Guangjiaojing Press, 1995. 211 pp. Paperback $18.00, isbn 962-226-396-8. With the countdown under way toward July 1, 1997, when China will regain sovereignty over Hong Kong, publications on the future of Hong Kong have become a fast-growth industry. Among the myriad tides on the subject, few deal with the important topic of the post-1997 legal system in Hong Kong, and even fewer are written by a trained legal scholar. The two volumes under review, both by Frankie F. L. Leung and both written in Chinese, are thus welcome contributions. The first monograph is a collection of essays written by the autiior over the© 1996 by University years and published in Shinbao (Hong Kong economicjournal) and Shinbao ofHawai'i Pressyuekan (Hong Kong economic journal monthly), two leading financial publications in Hong Kong, and arranged in five topical categories. The first, "Citizenship and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region," illuminates legal issues 196 China Review International: Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1996 relating to citizenship on the Hong Kong passport and rights of abode in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. The second section on "Sino-British Relations" analyzes the respective bargaining strategies of China and the United Kingdom, evaluates die performance ofleading British and Hong Kong Chinese civil servants , and takes a retrospective glance at the poignant experiences of British diplomats during the Cultural Revolution in Beijing. The third section on "Equality before the Law" offers an insider's critique ofthe legal system, the legal profession , and legal education in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China. Though not focused on Hong Kong, two companion sections on "The Economies and Investment Strategies of China and the U.S." and "Chinese and Western Education" compare the laws on international trade and investment in China, die United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; introduce the financial wizardry of Templeton and Buffet, as well as Soros; and discourse on the policy choices and pedagogical similarities and differences between the American and Chinese educational systems. In his sequel The New Face ofChina: Hong Kong after 1997, the focus shifts to a discussion ofthe Chinese legal system, which takes up more than a third of the book. The twenty-five essays in this selection examine the quality ofjudges, lawyers , and law students in China; the Criminal Code and the Basic Law of Hong Kong; and the Hong Kong judicial system during the transition. Returning to two major themes in fhe 1994 book, the second section probes the problems of dealing with Chinese companies, resolving trade disputes, and managing cross-national and international investments, while a third section comments on the ambivalent political psychology of Hong Kong citizens, the uncertain status of Hong Kong civil servants during and after 1997, and the degree of media-friendliness of Chinese versus British officials. A last section on Hong Kong high school and college education completes the circle begun in the first book. While written largely for and at the level of...