There is a dichotomy in Chinese art education. On the one hand the authorities take for granted that the purpose of the national curriculum is to foster patriotism, morality and socialism; on the other hand art educators try to enlarge children's vision and encourage them to create according to their imagination. Chinese art teachers seem to have dealt with this dilemma by preparing and presenting their lessons in the official format whilst allowing art itself to work inwardly on the children.

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In a health crisis, such as a flu pandemic, prompt medical intervention by physicians and the public health community may save lives. Sometimes, however, the curative drugs are too expensive or there's just not enough to go around. Furthermore, physicians can't act when laws that protect the patent rights of pharmaceutical companies conflict with other laws that promote public health. Is there a mechanism that can resolve the conflict? Seeking a creative solution, the authors of this articlephysician-lawyer Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, a clinical fellow in the Department of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health and an associate physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Jerry Avorn, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's-propose that the government's powers of eminent domain can and should be applied for the public good in serious health crises.

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been conducting a broad research and development effort over the last ten years to provide better designs and materials for fossil fuel power plants. To facilitate transferring this advanced design and technology knowledge to the power industry for the next generation of power plants, EPRI and Sargent & Lundy (S&L) are creating the State-of-the-Art Power Plant (SOAPP) Workstation. The SOAPP Workstation will be available to the industry as a powerful tool that can be used to screen advanced technologies for appropriateness to specific sites; obtain design guidelines for advanced technologies; and generate site-specific conceptual designs, including conceptual design drawings, heat balances, cost estimates, and schedules. The technology transfer components of this project are a series of individual software modules that will be integrated into the SOAPP Workstation. This paper discusses two software modules that have recently been developed for combustion turbine power plant emission control. The Combustion Turbine Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Combustor Control Strategies technology module presents state-of-the-art technologies that are commercially available to reduce NOx emissions during combustion, including water injection, steam injection, and dry low NOx combustors. The second technology module, Combustion Turbine Postcombustion NOx/CO Control Strategies, examines selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation technologies for reducing postcombustion NOx and CO emissions. These two technology modules, operating within the SOAPP Workstation, will allow appropriate decisions to be made concerning combustion turbine emission control.