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Letter from Govenor Herbert H. Lehman to William Wallace Farley, October 22, 1940 inviting Mr. Farley to a supper party in honor of Henry A. Wallace, Vice Presidential Candidate and running mate of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 U.S. Presidential Election.

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Air Force F-22 Raptor production cost estimate, focusing on: (1) the status of cost reduction plans, including some plans not yet implemented, and Air Force procedures for reporting on the plans; and (2) a comparison of the 1999 production cost estimates with the congressional cost limitation."

This oral history interview was conducted by Dr. Laurie Brown L. Brown, M.D., on April 22, 1995 at the Omni Hotel of Charleston, South Carolina, venue for the 32nd annual meeting of the South Carolina Medical Association (SCMA). In this interview, Dr. Edward W. Catalano, M.D., former President of SCMA from 1993 to 1994, discusses his educational and professional background in pathology and laboratory medicine and the most significant issues that he sought to address during his tenure as president. Throughout the interview, Dr. Catalano speaks at length about his efforts to achieve unity within the organization when a representative voice was necessary in its dealings with the state legislature, and concludes by discussing issues surrounding the Clinton health care plan of 1993.

AbstractThe COVID‐19 pandemic created a unique catch‐22 for families with ongoing parenting cases. By materially changing the circumstances of everyday life while simultaneously closing the courts, the virus placed parents in impossible situations. Sometimes, parents had to decide whether to adhere to parenting schedules and perhaps expose their children to illness or death, or to disobey court orders and potentially expose themselves to possible serious legal penalties. In other parenting cases, the virus allowed opportunistic parents to wrongfully withhold their children while the courts were closed. In either situation, parents often did not qualify for emergency hearings and, even if they did, an unmanageable backlog in court proceedings realistically prevented their cases from being heard. The same pattern was observed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and it will logically take place any time a disaster causes legal problems and closes the courts. This article presents national data to reveal the extent to which courts closed during the pandemic and proposes a solution to these catch‐22 problems: a system in which states activate special masters to act as mobile or virtual neutral third‐party decision‐makers. By employing such a system, states would not be exercising any authority that they do not already commonly use, and they would uphold their obligations to families even in difficult times.

"Technical Objective AW-7." ; "Physics." ; "11 August 1955." ; "NS 083-001." ; "Research and Development Technical Report." ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82). ; Mode of access: Internet.

The state of Oaxaca has always held a distinct position in Mexico: Not only is it among the poorest, but its population is also considered to be particularly combative. It therefore does not seem surprising that the state harbors the most prominent and vocal union section of the teachers' union SNTE and the dissident teachers' movement CNTE. The power and influence of the Sección 22 reach beyond the limits of educational matters and the schools and into state politics, affecting the lives of many Oaxacans - also due to frequent street blockades and strikes that lead to educational deficits for children. The teachers' embeddedness in society and their narrative of protest sets their struggle in the context of the defense of the entire Mexican people's rights and in the idea of the state's cultural heritage. The result is an outstandingly strong social movement, apparently organizing in protest as a reflex against government policies, even when these aim at a long-necessary democratization

What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology---especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism? In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and community members but has developed into a consciously chosen ethic with an expanding circle of moral concern. Drawing on philosophy and evolutionary psychology, he demonstrates that human ethics cannot be explained by biology alone. Rather, it is our capacity for reasoning that makes moral progress possible. In a new afterword, Singer takes stock of his argument in light or recent research on the evolution of morality.--Publisher's description