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Interviews several persons regarding the changes in their lives after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. Letty Eisenhauser, staff counselor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City; Mihaela N. Metianu, student adviser at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida; Kenneth W. Hearlson, political science professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California.

Focuses on the efforts of historian Barbara Melosh of George Mason University to trace the rise and fall of adoption in the U.S. Government intrusions on adoptive families; Origins of legal adoption in the U.S.; Public perception on adoption. INSET: 'Adoption Studies' Hits the Humanities, With Surprises in Store.

Discusses the decision of the John Hopkins University Press to suppress the publication of Andrea Hamilton's dissertation on the history of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Maryland. Questions raised by Hamilton's case; Background on Hamilton's dissertation efforts; Comments from historian, Helen L. Horowitz about the dissertation.

Focuses on `The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language' and `The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl,' two biographies about Laura Bridgman. Cause of Bridgman's blindness and deafness; Celebrity of Bridgman; Relations of teacher and reformer Samuel Howe with Bridgman.

Focuses on the Medici Archive Project not-for-profit effort that aimed to excavate mail sent or received by the Medici royal family between 1537 to 1743. Review of how founder and former American academe Edward Goldberg become involve in the project; Objectives of the research; Challenges facing the project.

Presents information on the published studies that may provide information on the role babies play in shaping their cultures and issues about children. Margaret Mead's `Coming of Age in Samoa'; `The Private Worlds of Dying Children,' by Myra Bluebond-Langner; `Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old,' by Jean L. Briggs.

Reports on the Seventh International Architecture Exhibit of the Venice Biennale at the Giardini Publicci in Venice, Italy. The use of computers to design buildings; Exhibitors from Columbia University and the University of California at Los Angeles; The versatility of the Internet in designing.

Reports on the proliferation of academic book series. Reasons that series are beneficial for editors, authors and presses; Comments from insiders such as Peter Agree, former editor of Cornell University Press; Factors that have led many to believe that series are becoming less important; Other information on book series. INSET: How Series Have Proliferated in One Hot Field, by Nina Willdorf.

Discusses the growing interest in the historical, social, and cultural meanings of food among scholars. Speech by Warren J. Belasco at the joint meeting of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Society for Agriculture and Human Values; Journals publishing special issues on food; Reasons for the rise of food studies; The books,`Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity,' by Doris Witt and `Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry,' by Belasco; Views of several authors.

Discusses the efforts of Martin E. P. Seligman, president of the American Psychological Association, to begin using so-called `positive psychology,' which is aimed at shifting the emphasis in the discipline from a disease model to a health model. Series of meetings Seligman and colleagues will attend in hopes of spurring a similar shift across the social sciences; Slowness with which social scientists have adopted ideas concerning positive thinking.

Reports on the effort made by Shelley Fisher Fishkin to publish 'Is He Dead?,' a play that Mark Twain wrote in 1898 but failed to produce, as of May 2003. History and plot of the play; Attributions to the failure of the play; Reaction from other Twain scholars; Personal information on Fishkin.

Focuses on the book `Elizabeth I: Collected Works,' a compilation of writings of Queen Elizabeth I. Poetry in Queen Elizabeth's speeches; Reasons Queen Elizabeth I has not been taken seriously as a writer; Example of Queen Elizabeth's prayer included in the book.

Looks at the work of Anne Fadiman and her job she will assume as editor of `The American Scholar' when she replaces Joseph Epstein. The quarterly journal as published by the senate of the Phil Beta Kappa honor society; The controversy of her choice as editor; Her view of the image of the journal.

The article reports that the "Chronicle of Higher Education" has given its 2008 David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists to Lois E. Beckett, a senior at Harvard University. The prize was given to Beckett for three articles she wrote about the role of intellectuals in the buildup to the war in Iraq.

The article presents information on the George Washington University Speech and Hearing Center, where men undergoing a transformation into women can receive therapy to help them alter their voices. Mary Elizabeth Moody, who oversees the voice clinic where many types of communicative disorders are treated, explains that female hormones do not alter a man's voice, so exercises are used to strengthen the muscles of the larynx and raise the pitch of the voice. Moody explains her reasons for supporting therapy over surgery and/or self-help tapes, her goals for clients' voice range, and the slow pace of change that she advocates.

This article presents information on the history of Saint's Rest, the first dormitory of Michigan State University of East Lansing, Michigan. No lives were lost when the three-story brick building burned to the ground. It was winter break, and Saint's Rest, nicknamed by students after a popular devotional, was empty. Afterward the rubble was simply pushed into the cellar and covered over with dirt. For generations, few students crossing the leafy campus would have stopped to squint and read the marker showing the name of dormitory or give a thought to those who strolled here so long before them. Inside the fence, 21 undergraduates in all have spent the summer digging up Saint's Rest as part of the anthropology department's annual archaeological field school. It took almost no time to discern the foundations of the building, which were only inches below the surface. Since then the students have found mostly shards of window glass, rusted nails, and bricks, more bricks than they know what to do with.

Presents several photographs of students who are members of Greek letter societies in the United States as part of a documentary by Andrew Moisey. Award received by Moisey for his documentary; Reason for his decision to document the life of students in Greek letter societies.

Presents updates on the topics highlighted by the articles on scientific journals in the U.S. as of June 13, 2003. Public policy issues and privacy concerns surrounding the use of DNA; Publication of the first issue of 'The Annals of Family Medicine.'

Presents an interview with University of Michigan professor Jonathan Michel Metzl about biological psychiatry. Consequences of throwing out psychoanalysis; Theme of advertisements for psychotropic drugs; Comments on the advertisement for Prozac pills.

Presents updates on educators in higher education in the U.S. as of May 23, 2003. Recruitment of professor of history Robin D.G. Kelley for Columbia University's anthropology department; Decision of the University of New Mexico to hire Louis Caldera to assume its presidency.

Presents news briefs related to higher education in the U.S. as of January 10, 2003. Plans of author David Zurabishvili to publish a journal to forge links between Caucasus and the U.S.; Appointment of John Donatich as director of Yale University Press.

Reports on the students of Rice University of Houston, Texas who had been found guilty of cheating on a final examination in a lower-level physics course in spring 2002. Number of students charged with cheating; Basis of the charges; Penalties given to the students.

Presents updates on feminist literature as of December 13, 2002. Planned publication of another edition of the book 'Professing Feminism,' by Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge; Move of the journal 'Differences' to the Duke University Press.

Interviews Randy Martin, a professor of art and public policy at New York University in New York City, about money management. Discussion on money as part of the way of life in the U.S.; Ethics in household finance; Issues surrounding money management.

Presents an update on issues related to academic publishing and publications in the higher education sector of the U.S. as of October 25, 2002. Death of philosopher Paul Weiss; Impact of the selection of Imre Kert é sz as Nobel laureate for literature of the Swedish Academy on Northwestern University Press.

Reports on two issues on academic journalism in the U.S. Plans of the National Academy of Sciences to address the issue on whether journals should publish bioterrorism-related papers; Revival of the Trinity University Press in San Antonio, Texas.

Recommends the books 'Fierce People,' by Dirk Wittenborn and 'Thinner, Blonder, Whiter,' by Elizabeth Maguire. Storyline of both books.

Focuses on issues concerning the periodicals 'Legal Affairs' and 'Modernism/Modernity.' Information on the contents of the first issue of 'Legal Affairs'; Plan of the editors of 'Modernism/Modernity' for the journal.

Reports on the decision of Texas A&M University to alter a plan to admit the top 20 percent of graduates from several Texas high schools, as of March 2002. Reason for the effort; Criticisms against the move; Statement issued by the university's deputy general counsel.

Reports that the University of California-Berkeley officials suspended a student-run course on male sexuality in February 2002, after reading a report from 'The Daily Californian.' Activities reported by the paper, which included sexual activities of students and instructors; Comment from Ian Bach, a student instructor, on the course.

Focuses on 'What We're Fighting For: A Letter From America,' a letter signed by U.S. scholars, supporting the war on terrorism, the week before February 22, 2002. Signatories of the letter; Scholars who joined the discussion but refused to sign the letter; Issues discussed during the debate and release of the letter.

Provides updates on three university press publications in the United States as of January 11, 2002. Changes in the office location and contents of the journal 'Common Knowledge,' edited by Jeffrey M. Perl; Review of the autobiography 'Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives From a Diaspora of Hope,' by Jael Silliman; Background on the creation of the book 'What's So Great About America?,' by Dinesh D'Souza.

Presents an update on higher education publications in the United States as of December 21, 2001. Invitation for social scientists worldwide to write on terrorism and globalization; Selection of theology professor Rob Fisher as editor for the electronic journal 'Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness.'

Discusses issues concerning two books. Rejection of the request of author Lynda Bundtzen for permission to use the works of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in her book 'The Other Ariel'; Release of the book `The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez,' by Ted Genoways.

Reports on the defense statement requested by Atlanta, Georgia-based Emory University from author Michael A. Bellesiles in response to accusations raised from the publication of Bellesiles' book 'Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture.' Reaction of Bellesiles on the request; Issues raised by the book's publication; Incident that led to the decision of Emory to request a defense statement.

Focuses on the lucrativeness of business in university towns in the United States. Lucrativeness of a coffee bar near the University of Delaware; Profit of businessman Double Doug from selling sandwiches; Benefits of auto-body shops from students.

Presents information on higher education studies and research in the United States. Significance of the study presented in `Talk of Love: How Culture Matters,' by Ann Swidler; Linguistic manifestations of suicidal poets, according to psychologists Shannon Wiltsey Stirman and James W. Pennebaker.

Investigates the financial state of university press publishing in the United States in 2001. Range of sales annually; Factors which contributed to the decline in sales; Implications of the over publication of books; Books that generated revenues for university presses.

Presents news briefs about literary personalities in the United States in July 6, 2001. Description of poet Robert Lowell's writing style; Plans of newly appointed director of the University of Michigan Press Philip Pochoda for scholarly monographs.

Provides answers to questions related to international relations or affairs. Views on the erosion of nationalist thinking; Advice for the Bush administration regarding its reassessment of military priorities.

Presents update on issues related to academic publishing by universities and colleges in the United States as of January 12, 2001. Examples of questions issued by aspiring writers to editors at the conference of the Modern Language Association; Appointment of Stephen D. Maikowski as publishing director of New York University Press.

Presents news briefs on higher education as of December 2000. Publication of topics about toilets in the periodical `Postcolonial Studies'; Appointment of political scientist Jorge G. Castaneda in Mexico's government.

Focuses on the marketing of the book `The Other Shore,' by Gao Xingjian, in the United States and China. Controversy surrounding its publication; Information on the book.

Interviews Richard E. Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Comparison between the method of thinking of Westerners and Asians; Difference in systems of writing.

Presents news on faculty members of universities and colleges in the United States as of November 3, 2000. Recruitment of Judy DeLoache and her husband Gerald Clore by the University of Virginia's psychology department; Allegations of Hajo Neis of the architecture department of the University of California in Berkeley against the university.

Presents a study which investigated the discrepancy with regard to the number of sex partners of heterosexual men and women in the United States. Findings of the study conducted by the University of Chicago in Illinois and the National Health and Social Life Survey; Exclusion of female and male prostitutes and juvenile from the survey.

Presents a list of the Nobel Prize winners in 2000. Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine; Zhores I. Alferov, Nobel Prize in Physics; Hideki Shirakawa, Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Offers anecdotal news briefs related to books. 'Eichmann in Jerusalem,' by Hannah Arendt, a report of the 1961 trial against the senior Nazi official responsible for the extermination of much of Eastern European Jewry which was made available in Hebrew in June 2000; Circumvention of Canada's rules against foreign control of publishing companies by publisher McClelland & Stewart.