Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN America award the PEN/Hemingway prize for the year's best debut novel by an American author. The award is usually presented at a gala reception at ...the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts; however, in 2022, the award celebration was held online via Zoom due to ongoing concern about COVID-19. The 2022 PEN/Hemingway prize was awarded to Torrey Peters for her book, Detransition, Baby (Penguin Random House). This year we are pleased to present the keynote address of American writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams. Tempest Williams is the author of over twenty books including the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her other books include Finding Beauty in a Broken World; When Women Were Birds; The Hour of Land - A Personal Topography of America's National Parks; and most recently, Erosion - Essays of Undoing. A recipient of a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Robert Kirsch Award, Tempest Williams is writer-inresidence at the Harvard Divinity School. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley, Utah.
Candidate Trump suggested that building a wall would limit immigration from Mexico, eliding sober assessments that, historically, walls have rarely been a good long-term solution, that such a wall ...would make very little difference on immigration, and that over the past few years, there have been more Mexicans leaving the United States than coming to the United States.1 And yet, Trump built a successful presidential campaign by constructing a compelling notion that a wall would be a solution to a nonproblem. DOCUMENTING COMPLEXITY Third, science has a responsibility to bear witness, to provide the documentation to the complexity of population health challenges, even if they fall out of the dominant public din. Returning to the topic with which we started this comment, the issue of immigration from Mexico, Cheney et al. conducted a qualitative study to document premigration experiences of violence and postmigration health status in male-tofemale transgender individuals from Mexico (p. 1646).
This work proposes a sequential tagger for named entity recognition in morphologically rich languages. Several schemes for representing the morphological analysis of a word in the context of named ...entity recognition are examined. Word representations are formed by concatenating word and character embeddings with the morphological embeddings based on these schemes. The impact of these representations is measured by training and evaluating a sequential tagger composed of a conditional random field layer on top of a bidirectional long short-term memory layer. Experiments with Turkish, Czech, Hungarian, Finnish and Spanish produce the state-of-the-art results for all these languages, indicating that the representation of morphological information improves performance.
Studies of racial/ethnic variations in stroke rarely consider the South Asian population, one of the fastest growing sub-groups in the United States. This study compared risk factors for stroke among ...South Asians with those for whites, African-Americans, and Hispanics.
Data on 3290 stroke patients were analyzed to examine risk differences among the four racial/ethnic groups. Data on 3290 patients admitted to a regional stroke center were analyzed to examine risk differences for ischemic stroke (including subtypes of small and large vessel disease) among South Asians, whites, African Americans and Hispanics.
South Asians were younger and had higher rates of diabetes mellitus, blood pressure, and fasting blood glucose levels than other race/ethnicities. Prevalence of diabetic and antiplatelet medication use, as well as the incidence of small-artery occlusion ischemic stroke was also higher among South Asians. South Asians were almost a decade younger and had comparable socioeconomic levels as whites; however, their stroke risk factors were comparable to that of African Americans and Hispanics.
Observed differences in stroke may be explained by dietary and life style choices of South Asian-Americans, risk factors that are potentially modifiable. Future population and epidemiologic studies should consider growing ethnic minority groups in the examination of the nature, outcome, and medical care profiles of stroke.
In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the U.S. response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. President Kennedy's decision to impose a blockade was based on hours of ...discussions with top advisers (the so-called ExComm), yet decades of scholarship on the crisis have missed the central puzzle: How did the group select one response, the blockade, when au options seemed bad? Recently released audio recordings are used to argue that the key conversational activity was storytelling about an uncertain future. Kennedy's choice of a blockade hinged on the narrative "suppression" of its most dangerous possible consequence, namely the perils of a later attack against operational missiles, something accomplished through omission, self-censorship, ambiguation, uptake failure, and narrative interdiction. The article makes the very first connection between the localized dynamics of conversation and decision making in times of crisis, and offers a novel processual account of one of the most fateful decisions in human history. Adapted from the source document.
According to Hinton, rather than a starting line, Reagan's policies were more the outgrowth of a process that liberals themselves had developed within a broad bipartisan political consensus, ...involving the merger of social welfare and law enforcement programs and the deep commitment to crime control as a viable response to socioeconomic inequality and institutional racism.(p305) Her opening chapter confronts what is an inconvenient truth for many. ...Hinton's book reminds us that political promises for social progress can be illusory or euphemisms for exerting penal control.
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