The document contains a variety of papers that examine the linkages between local concerns and global concerns and explore alternative world futures. An introductory article, "Securing the Human," discusses how the world community needs to develop adequate means to deal with crimes against humans. These means include sound analysis, spiritual…

On October 27, 1972 Dr. Sidney P. Marland, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Education, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and Dr. James D. Koerner, Program Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, joined with the Board of Directors and the staff of the Council for Basic Education in a conversation about career education. The proceedings were…

Students tend to evaluate those activities in which they participated on the college campus as being important to their life satisfaction, i.e., extracurricular activities for leaders, academics for nonleaders. (KR)

Excerpts from a speech by the director of the National Institute on Aging present his reviews on the impact that increased longevity will have on the future society, and his report of research being carried out on extension of the human life span. (MF)

Suggests that "global citizenship" become prime order of business in American education, using three assumptions: primacy of species survival; impact of distant events upon proximate reality; and enrichment from sense of extended community. Author recommends curriculum in international interdependence. Author addressed Shell-Faculty Forum in…

A complete education in the future should include knowledge of self-care skills and a thorough understanding of how to adjust to a science-oriented world. (JD)

The underlying philosophy of this model community-based patient education program is that patients have the right and the responsibility to participate in the management of their disease. (MM)

Intended for parents of mentally handicapped children, the article discusses how to overcome the desire to protect such children from the rejection and pain they will inevitably face, and how to prepare them for the outside world. (DLS)

Over 400 Appalachian Kentuckians participated in a three-day conference June 19-21 at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and drew up recommendations designed to help the economy of Appalachian Kentucky develop in the way that will benefit to the maximum extent the largest possible number of its citizens. (AUTHOR)

The plight of minority aged has been characterized as one of double jeopardy. Other research has indicated that gaps between minority and majority individuals decline with age. To test these competing hypotheses, a series of health, income, life satisfaction, and social participation variables was examined with data from a large sample. (Author)

Using the PGC and LSI indices of adjustment to old age, an empirical typology of adjustors was developed. Cluster analysis was employed to locate three male types of adjustors: Low adjustors, Acceptors, and Fighters, and two female types: Low adjustors and Moderate adjustors. These findings were compared to previous typologies. (Author)

The article explores the potential of Apprenticing for developing personal integrity and independence in the modern world. (Author/NQ)

Explored burdens experienced by 42 adults living with a depressed patient and related these burdens to their degree of psychological distress. Respondents were distressed themselves, over 40 percent meeting a standardized criterion for referral for therapeutic intervention. Patients' lack of interest in social life, fatigue, feelings of…

Ethnographic observations focusing on the stigma of handicap among Israeli adults who were blinded in childhood indicated that their sighted parents were more patronizing toward them than toward their siblings and that these parents attempted to channel them into less-than-optimal occupations and marriages. (Author/CB)

Presents a profile of Tijuana, Mexico, a city populated by thousands of Latino migrants and would-be emigrants, most living in dire poverty. Focuses on the Scalabrini Center, which provides help and protection without asking for names or citizenship papers. Discusses the impact of the Simpson-Rodino bill and considers the future of those displaced…