Military stands firm on dissection

Quebec stands firm on asbestos exports despite growing controversy.

Premier of Quebec Jean Charest is refusing to stop exporting chrysotile asbestos, despite a growing international outcry accusing Canada of hypocrisy in promoting the sale of a known carcinogen. On a trade mission in February to India — the largest buyer of asbestos from Quebec — protests greeted Charest at two of his stops, including a summit on sustainable development in Delhi. Members of the...

Research on Aging Military Veterans; Lifespan Implications of Military Service

S continued was associated with significantly elevated PTSD symptom severity at the time of no PTSD diagnosis. No evidence was found for an aggravation of PTSD due to stressors associated with aging. [Author Abstract] Elder, G.H., & Clipp, E.C. (1988). Combat experience, comradeship, and psychological health. In J.P. Wilson, Z. Harel, & B. Kahana (Eds.), Human adaptation to extreme stress: From...

Stands in Politics

How Stands Collapse II

I review ten problems associated with the dynamical wave function collapse program, which were described in the first of these two papers. Five of these, the interaction, preferred basis, trigger, symmetry and superluminal problems, were discussed as resolved there. In this volume in honor of Abner Shimony, I discuss the five remaining problems, tails, conservation law, experimental, relativity...

Where Stands Functoriality Today?

The notion of functoriality arose from the spectral analysis of automorphic forms but its definition was informed by two major theories: the theory of class fields as created by Hilbert, Takagi, and Artin and others; and the representation theory of semisimple Lie groups in the form given to it by Harish-Chandra. In both theories the statements are deep and general and the proofs difficult, hig...