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Argues that the contemporary movement for cultural diversity awareness training among US criminal justice workers would support rather than transform the status quo. At the same time, the series of tragic incidents that has focused public attention on the racist tendencies in law enforcement may present a window of opportunity for innovation. Those involved in the attempt to develop multicultural training programs for police officers should therefore look critically at both the impetus for training & its outcomes. 29 References. M. Maguire

Promotes efforts to bring multicultural education to police officers. Traces the origins of the current movement, including its historical precursors, and examines the contradictions in criminal justice reform. Concludes that what passes as multicultural training is mostly cosmetic.

When interpreting screening mammograms radiologists decide whether suspicious abnormalities exist that warrant the recall of the patient for further testing. Previous work has found significant differences in interpretation among radiologists; their false-positive and false-negative rates have been shown to vary widely. Performance assessments of individual radiologists have been mandated by the U.S. government, but concern exists about the adequacy of current assessment techniques.

The focus on quantitative literacy has been increasingly outside the realm of mathematics. The social sciences are well suited to including quantitative elements throughout the curriculum but doing so can mean challenges in preparation and presentation of material for instructors and increased anxiety for students. This paper describes tools and resources available through the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) that will aid students and instructors engaging in quantitative literacy across the curriculum. The Online Learning Center is a source of empirical activities aimed at undergraduates in lower-division substantive courses and Exploring Data through Research Literature presents an alternative to traditional research methods assignments. Searching and browsing tools, archive structures, and extended online-analysis tools make it easier for students in upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses to engage in exercises that increase quantitative literacy, and paper competitions reward them for doing so.

Collection of 10 articles (including an introductory one by M. Seldon), a bibliography and some documents on area and international studies in the USA during and after the Cold War, how Asian governmental and private funds play a role in shaping U.S. politics, economic, and cultural and intellectual life, thousands of academics in the USA working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), how the Ford Foundation, in close consultation with the CIA, helped to shape postwar area studies, how during the Cold War a deep rift emerged in the USA between the governments security agencies and their critics among other topics. (DÜI-Sen)

Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case study of cosmetics advertising in China, India, South Africa, Germany and the United States, we show that the Modern Girl in each locale was shaped through multidirectional citations of elements from elsewhere, through transnational processes of racialisation and through distinct articulations of nationalism.