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A review essay on three books by: Gunther Neske & Emil Kettering (Eds), Martin Heidegger and National Socialism: Questions and Answers (New York, 1990); Richard Wolin (Ed), The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader (New York, 1991); & Heidegger and the Political (special issue of The Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 1991, 14:2-15:1 [see listings in IRPS No. 69]). These books examine Martin Heidegger's relation to national socialism. Neske's & Kettering's book contains several of Heidegger's essays & interviews that touch on his involvement with the Nazis. The volume also offers comments on the Heidegger controversy by such thinkers of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida, & Emmanuel Levinas. Wolin's book brings together in translation politically oriented letters, essays, & texts written by Heidegger in the 1930s & 1940s. Wolin's volume also offers commentaries on the Heidegger controversy by Karl Lowith, Karl Jaspers, Jurgen Habermas, & Pierre Bourdieu. The special 2-volume edition of the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal offers a collection of outstanding essays on Heidegger's relationship to national socialism, presents documents from Heidegger's "Denazification Proceedings," & contains a helpful chronological biography of works (in various languages) on Heidegger & the political. Wolin's book, which relates Heidegger's politics in the 1930s to the philosophy of existence elaborated in 1927, is compared to Michael Zimmerman's Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, Art (Indianapolis, 1990), which relates Heidegger's commitment to & eventual disengagement from Nazi politics to his writings on technology & art in the 1930s & 1940s. W. Howard

Ten years ago the Australian Government developed a strategy that has been described as 'unique in providing a national commitment to, and framework for, equity, which has itself been the stimulus for action in all institutions' (NBEET 1996: 11). One of the policy's objectives was to increase the representation of people from low socio economic (SES) backgrounds in higher education. Statistical data suggests that has not been achieved. Yet despite this evidence and changes of government the 1989 framework survives intact today. This report explores the development and of the policy framework, some of the current explanations of the policy's failure and asks if it is time to look afresh at equity in higher education.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between gender composition and group cohesion in U.S. Army combat support and combat service support units. Five studies were compared in this analysis, including survey data obtained in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm; in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope; in Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy; and in two garrison samples. A higher percentage of women in the unit was strongly associated with lower horizontal cohesion in the Somalia sample, and there was a much smaller association between these variables in the Persian Gulf sample. This relationship was present only among junior enlisted soldiers in one of the garrison surveys but was absent in the other garrison survey and in the Haiti sample. In most cases, a higher percentage of women was associated with lower cohesion. Possible reasons for differences across studies in the strength of the association may include gender differences in support for the mission and differences in deployment circumstances.

OBJECTIVES: Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is reported to be disproportionally high compared with the general Australian population. This review aimed to scope the literature documenting SSB consumption and interventions to reduce SSB consumption among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Findings will inform strategies to address SSB consumption in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. METHODS: PubMed, SCOPUS, CINAHL, Informit, Joanna Briggs Institute EBP, Mura databases and grey literature were searched for articles published between January 1980 and June 2018. Studies were included if providing data specific to an Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander population's SSB consumption or an intervention that focused on reducing SSB consumption in this population. DESIGN: Systematic scoping review. RESULTS: 59 articles were included (1846 screened). While reported SSB consumption was high, there were age-related and community-related differences observed in some studies. Most studies were conducted in remote or rural settings. Implementation of nutrition interventions that included an SSB component has built progressively in remote communities since the 1980s with a growing focus on community-driven, culturally sensitive approaches. More recent studies have focused exclusively on SSB consumption. Key SSB-related intervention elements included incentivising healthier options; reducing availability of less-healthy options; nutrition education; multifaceted or policy implementation (store nutrition or government policy). CONCLUSIONS: There was a relatively large number of studies reporting data on SSB consumption and/or sales, predominantly from remote and rural settings. During analysis it was subjectively clear that the more impactful studies were those which were community driven or involved extensive community consultation and collaboration. Extracting additional SSB-specific consumption data from ...