Clashing cultural cues – rather than discriminatory doctors – could cause at least part of the medical care gap between black and white Americans, according to a recent study of patient adherence by Jonathan D.

As China's economy grows and stringent travel restrictions are relaxed, urban middle- to upper-class Chinese are increasing looking beyond their borders for travel. While a staggering 31 million Chinese traveled abroad in 2005, only 100,000 visited the United States.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Lawrence Klein was one of the first Western scholars to establish close ties with China's economic policymakers.

Thirteen years after then-First Lady Hillary Clinton's 1,000-page universal health-care plan met with derision, an increasing number of public policymakers are coming full circle, advocating mandatory enrollment for everyone and coverage regardless of age, income and pre-existing medical problems

The CANAMEX Corridor of Innovation initiative has been working in recent years to plan improvements to public and private shipping, rail, highway and inspection facilities through a multistate cooperative of Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Idaho.

Arizona is at a crossroads, looking back at 25 years of spectacular growth and forward to a future that, while promising, is also uncertain. As one of 10 identified "megapolitan" areas in the U.S., Arizona faces the choice of creating high-quality jobs or ignoring that need.

The Arizona Constitution mandates that "the instruction furnished shall be as nearly free as possible" at the state's universities, and that the state appropriate money for the "development and improvement" of its universities.

At the time of the California energy supply crisis of 2001, a number of Western states were net exporters of electricity. They realized the Golden State would need much more electricity than it could supply itself.

All entrepreneurship is not the same. Innovative entrepreneurs create and commercialize new products, services and business practices, in contrast to the replicative entrepreneurs — those who open businesses that support a growing population, such as restaurants and dry cleaners.

The idea of melding economic and environmental goals is not new, but acceptance is growing for the idea that a healthy environment is part of a healthy economy.