1. The Harris Poll - Louis Harris is a pollster and public opinion analyst, and has been director of the Time Magazine-Harris Poll since 1969. In 1956 he established his own firm in New York City. Harris’ services were especially associated with election campaigns - initially and most notably with John F. Kennedy’s campaign and later with the campaigns of hundreds of other candidates, including presidents, governors, U.S. senators and representatives, mayors, and other officials, both Democrats and Republicans. Harris’ firm helped candidates to determine what strategies, issues and aspects of personality might be most effective with voters. Harris also did much of his work outside politics. Please visit the web site http://vr.harrispollonline.com/register/main.asp for more information.
2. Scholastic Corporation http://www.scholastic.com is a global children’s publishing and media company. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children’s books, textbooks, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, videos and toys.
3. Nuclear family - also called elementary family. In sociology and anthropology, it refers to a group of persons united by ties of marriage, parenthood or adoption and consisting of a man, a woman, and their socially recognized children. In most developed industrial countries, it is the most basic and common form of social organization. For information about the sociology of the family, please check out the web page at http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/family.html and follow links to sites that interest you. The page at http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80473e/80473E0j.htm provides information on the methodologies of assessing household organization and structure adopted by the United Nations.
4. Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), British mathematician, logician and philosopher, best known for his work in mathematical logic and who, in collaboration with Bertrand Russel, authored the landmark three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913). Check out the web page at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/ for a biography of Alfred Whitehead.
