Steven J. Chatfield, Ph.D., is in the Department of Dance at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Donna H. Krasnow, M.S., is in the Department of Dance at York University, Toronto, Canada. Amanda Herman, is a candidate in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Glenna Blessing, M.F.A., is in the Department of Dance at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland.

Advances in the detection and medical and surgical treatment of breast cancer have caught the attention of the media and the public. Such widespread media attention has been a mixed blessing, however; the anxiety engendered may actually lead to poorer compliance with breast cancer screening recommendations and may jeopardize early detection. Despite being better informed, many women seem to fat...

them who bestowed the faintest blessing on amalgamation and its sequela) in return, though expressions of the opposite sort, both loud and deep, are commoner than we could wish. The latest (we wish we could say it was to be the last) change', ne cessitated by that grossest of blunders, the amalgamation of the two European Armies in this country, was the reorganization of the Administrative Medi...

We consider the problem of estimating high dimensional spatial graphical models with a total cardinality constraint (i.e., the `0-constraint). Though this problem is highly nonconvex, we show that its primal-dual gap diminishes linearly with the dimensionality and provide a convex geometry justification of this ‘blessing of massive scale’ phenomenon. Motivated by this result, we propose an effi...

Globalisation has given birth to medical tourism. Health and medical tourism are the fastest growing segments in not only developed nations but in developing countries too. India has become a hot destination, as the Indian medical standards match up to the highly prescribed international standards at a very low cost. However, it is an unmixed blessing; along with advantages, it has many uninten...

" Whenever the writer sees the poor anaemic, brokendown victim of many miscarriages, he cannot help but feel that, if the laws of the Damiantina River savages [performing artificial hypospadias] were enforced on their husbands, it would be a blessing to the poor women without materially injuring the husbands, who, in case of need of a re-establishment of the functions of procreation, might be f...