Going to Pieces: Paul Monette and the Fragments of the Tribe

Author of the highly acclaimed Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988) and winner of the 1992 National Book Award for his autobiography Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Paul Monette died of complications from AIDS in Los Angeles on February 12, 1995. His most recent work, Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise (1994), is his third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical writing on growing up gay, coming-out, and living with AIDS. A graduate of Phillips Academy and Yale University, Monette received a number of awards for his writing and his work as an outspoken voice in the battle against AIDS, including the National Book Award, three Lambda Literary awards, the PEN Center West Freedom to Write Award, and three honorary doctorate degrees, from Wesleyan University, the City University of New York, and the State University of New York at Oswego. A memorial service was held for Monette on Sunday, February 19, 1995, at the Directors Guild of America on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Paul Monette was 49.     

实行学分制收费提供人性化服务

实行学分制收费不单纯是收费方式的改变,从深层意义上讲,更重要的是它代表着高校财务人员理财理念的转变,服务观念的更新,使其更具有人性化.     

论拜伦对传统伦理道德的解构

诗人拜伦因其一系列惊世骇俗之举而享誉世界文坛,又因其特立独行的情感方式和人生观致使批评界对其毁誉参半.文章运用文学伦理学批评方法,从伦理思想视角切入,剖析拜伦道德思想的根源及其在创作和行为实践中的表征,从而得出支配其情感方式和人生观的是一种带有自身多重矛盾的"拜伦式"伦理道德思想,拜伦式伦理道德思想在对传统伦理道德解构过程中,既有反叛保守的颠覆意义,又有否定一切的破坏性.     

西部农业发展及问题剖析

作为国民经济基础的农业历来在西部地区发展中居于重要位置。改革开放以来,西部地区的农民同全国的农民一样,也在努力发展农村经济,脱贫致富奔小康。但是,西部地区的农业发展仍存在着诸多问题,总体水平远远低于全国和东部,甚至中部地区。究其原因造成西部农业落后、农民贫困的最主要的深层原因就是二元经济结构、落后的农业生产方式以及恶劣的农业生产生态环境。     

甘肃省藏族学龄女童失、辍学现象的原因分析及对策建议

甘肃藏族地区学龄女童辍学、流失现象比较严重,本文通过对甘南藏族自治州三县18个藏族聚居区村庄的实地走访调研,在充分掌握藏族地区女童教育实际的基础上,针对女童教育中存在的问题探求发生问题的原因,并提出了相应的对策建议。     

新时期我国社会主义政治文明建设发展路径初探

在新的历史时期我们必须坚持从实际出发,紧扣基本国情,积极稳妥地推进以民主政治为核心的社会主义政治文明建设,努力实现“三个文明”的协调发展。     

以公共政策为导向的户外广告规划研究——《深圳市户外广告设置指引》的探索

为了提升城市户外广告环境品质,改进规划工作的不足,提出以公共政策为导向的户外广告规划研究方法。在《深圳市户外广告设置指引》的编制实践中,通过多视角的目标建构、"规范"加"规划"的导控策略以及"手册式"的成果表达手段,取得了良好的实践效果。因此提出:为了提高户外广告规划成果的可操作性,增强实施实效性,必须正确认识户外广告的双重属性,将规划工作从传统的技术导向转变为以公共政策导向,做到导控中的因势"利导"与"力导"。     

Was there compression of disability for older Americans from 1992 to 2003?

Medical advances and the growth of the elderly population have focused interest on trends in the health of the elderly. Three theories have been advanced to describe these trends: compression of morbidity, expansion of morbidity, and dynamic equilibrium. We applied multistate life table methods to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to estimate active and disabled life expectancy from 1992 to 2003, defining disability as having difficulty with instrumental activities of daily living or activities of daily living. We found increases in active life expectancy past age 65 and decreases in life expectancy with severe disability. These trends are consistent with elements of both the theory of compression of morbidity and the theory of dynamic equilibrium.     

Using age and spatial flow structures in the indirect estimation of migration streams

This article outlines a formal model-based approach for inferring interregional age-specific migration streams in settings where such data are incomplete, inadequate, or unavailable. The estimation approach relies heavily on log-linear models, using them to impose some of the regularities exhibited by past age and spatial structures or to combine and borrow information drawn from other sources. The approach is illustrated using data from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. and Mexico censuses.     

As low birth weight babies grow,can well-educated parents buffer this adverse factor? A research note

This research note combines two national Taiwanese data sets to investigate the relationships among low birth weight (LBW) babies, their parents' educational levels, and their future academic outcomes. We find that LBW is negatively correlated with the probability of such children attending college at age 18; however, when both parents are college or high school graduates, such negative effects may be partially offset. We also show that discrimination against daughters occurs, but only for daughters who were LBW babies. Moreover high parental education can buffer the LBW shock only among moderately LBW children (as compared with very LBW children) and full-term LBW children (as compared with preterm LBW children).