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The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world''s greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The 1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world''s seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters'' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological

Alexander reviews A GATHERING DARKNESS: The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific, 1921-1942 by Haruo Tohmatsu and H. P. Willmott.

Alexander reviews JAPAN'S MODERN PROPHET: Uchimura Kanzo, 1861-1930 by John F. Howes.

Alexander reviews REBUILDING URBAN JAPAN AFTER 1945 edited by Carola Hein, Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Ishida Yorifusa.

Alexander reviews A MODERN HISTORY OF JAPAN: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon.

Alexander reviews THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN by Marius B. Jansen.

The goals of this article were to empirically describe how racial and ethnic minorities compare with Whites in terms of their role relationships with physicians and examine how differences in those relationships are associated (positively or negatively) with patient activation for minority groups, relative to Whites. Based on analysis of survey data collected from a random sample of 8,140 individuals with chronic illness, we found that both Blacks and Hispanics generally perceive their role relationships with physicians to be less equitable than do Whites and that the benefits to minorities from more equitable role relationships with physicians are not uniform across dimensions of patient–physician relationships or racial and ethnic subgroups. Based on these findings, we submit that race and ethnicity should be considered in the development and assessment of tailored interventions to improve activation.