A comprehensive review of information on leisure time physical activity patterns and programs provide a means to measure progress and future trends toward national health objectives. Information on general population leisure physical activity, employee fitness programs, and student programs and participation is reported. (DF)

This article offers a perspective on the present and future status of the health and fitness of Americans. Many advances have been made in the areas of health and fitness, but heart disease and obesity are still major health problems. (DF)

A profile of the modern French executive, in terms of educational background, lifestyle, salary, and preoccupations. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Landscape is treated as the living embodiment of ideological structures in England and the meanings it has for the British are identified. Using historical references, the author describes the social and moral values of the country. (LBH)

This book discusses the aspirations and desires of women in higher education in the fields of mathematics and science and their journey to wholeness and excellence that comes from having the choice and flexibility to create and change their roadmaps at will and thus succeed in a world in which the accepted way of knowing has been different from…

This collection of essays offers new perspectives for science educators, curriculum theorists, and cultural critics on science education, French post-structural thought, and the science debates. This book contains chapters on the work of Bruno Latour, Michael Serres, and Jean Baudrillard plus chapters on postmodern approaches to science education…

Credit cards have swept through almost every social class and all ages in Hong Kong. This paper attempts to provide a preliminary analysis of the possible impact of credit cards on individuals and their families in Hong Kong. A literature review reveals that Hong Kong people, while enjoying the freedom and convenience of "plastic money,"…

Issues in the study of bilingualism and multilingualism in India and Pakistan are examined, including the delineation of linguistic boundaries, defining a society that is multicultural and yet has developed a "communication ethos" based on a core of common experience, the difficulty in interpreting language role and defining language…

This study of Chinese university students in Thailand is set within two contending traditions of analysis: theories of ethnic assimilation and theories of ethnic pluralism. (Author)

Suggests that a new type of intensive interdependence among nation-States has emerged, centered on the generation and application of knowledge. The implications of this interdependence for the nation-States are considered, with the European Common Market as illustration. (Author)

Article presented a report of an investigation of adolescent group activity in a secondary school. (Author/RK)

Paper presented at the State Conference of the Modern Language Teachers' Association of Queensland, Australia, August 1973. (HW)

This study dealt with the question of white versus black superiority in learning, viewing such differences in sociocultural terms. (Author)