Over the last few years part of the quantum-gravity community has adopted a more optimistic attitude toward the possibility of finding experimental contexts providing insight on non-classical properties of spacetime. I review those quantum-gravity phenomenology proposals which were instrumental in bringing about this change of attitude, and I discuss the prospects for the short-term future of q...

In order to move toward a program of reliable and routine ambulatory cardiac surgery there must be a paradigm change in the attitude of both patients and caregivers. The status quo must be abandoned and replaced by the pioneering attitude of the early practitioners who formed our specialty.

During the past half century, the political attitude of the Eastern European people toward the state, government and society changed dramatically. So did their value systems. Inglehart's materialist vs. postmaterialist comparative analysis gives a measure of this value change, but not enough as to fully characterize the phenomena underlining the differences in political culture before and after...