One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.