The WRITE initiative was a collaborative approach that drew upon industry, state, local governments as well as the EPA's Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory with the overall goal of developing more effective pollution prevention technologies that could assist the electronics manufacturing industry in developing a "crade to grave" approach to managing these products (Rappaport, 1999). Besides these earlier efforts, in more recent years, increasingly rigorous laws and regulations have been implemented

, 2009, p. 80). Even the smallest museums in some of the most out-of-the-way locations "can and do participate in the globalized arena," Holo explains. The leaders of these remote museums, for example the "indigenous communitarian museum leaders in the remote mountains of Oaxaca," who have zero staff, somehow go to meetings at very obscure locations, just to link up with others in the world of art (Holo, 80). However, when

Models of Media and Politics A review of media / political models sheds some light on why the United States' cultural themes have been such a dominant dynamic in Europe, among other global venues. In describing the three models of media and politics, Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini report that the media in Southern Europe (the "Mediterranean" or "Polarized Pluralist Model") is "an institution of the political and literary worlds"

Gaia Hypothesis and Daisy World The development of the Gaia Hypothesis is described with some emphasis on how the concept has evolved in response to other scientist's skepticism. The Gaia concept itself is described and discussed. A possible means for reconciliation of the holistic Gaia hypothesis with reductionist thinking is discussed. I conclude by summarizing what the paper has accomplished. The Gaia Hypothesis was first published by James E. Lovelock in 1972

Poverty and Healthcare The complex interplay between poverty and healthcare has been a topic of concern for social scientists, healthcare professionals, and policymakers worldwide. The impact of poverty on access to healthcare, the quality of services received, and the overall health outcomes of impoverished populations is profound and multifaceted. Poor health can be both a cause and a consequence of poverty, creating a cyclical relationship that can be difficult to break

marketing -- Test marketing is a way to take a specific group and test the viability of a product or service for that group. This may be done in many ways, through focus groups, home use, trials, short or long tests. There are numerous advantages and disadvantages to test markets. For our purposes, three disadvantages are: Lack of broad enough test -- the product may be a prototype and not