One can have an impact on a field in a variety of ways such as papers published in prestigious journals, through service to associations, and through students. Certainly, James LeSage has published extensively in a variety of fields including economics and econometrics, regional science, spatial econometrics and statistics. He has helped organize sessions and performed other conference-related ...

While on the one hand there is much mutual love and care in the relationship between parents and their offspring, there may, on the other hand, be also much mutual 'sound and fury', which sometimes is far from 'signifying nothing' (William Shakespeare, Macbeth). Indeed, from conception on, individuals are confronted with parent-offspring conflicts of all kinds. Initially these conflicts concern...

265 Editorial In this day and age, every aspect of society has already been com­ mercialized. It seems that anything can be regarded as a commo­ dity. Due to influences from many directions, medical practice has not been an exception, and in fact, it is sometimes a prime example of such commercialism. Physicians' open commercial advertising has gone beyond a social problem to become a me­ dia e...