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consciousness-based education and governmentinsurance groups of similar size and professional membership, theTranscendental Meditation group had 53.3% fewer inpatient admissionsper 1,000 and 44.4% fewer outpatient visits per 1,000. Admissionsper 1,000 were lower for the Transcendental Meditation groupthan the norm for all of the 17 major medical treatment categories. Dr.Orme-Johnson addresses the issue of self-selection in terms of previousmedical research in this area.Also in the Health Care section, Dr. Robert Herron proposes a prevention-orientedstrategy to reduce medical care costs. Dr. Herron firstsurveys the costs of health care in the U.S. in comparison to costs inseveral other countries, and then describes a health promotion strategyinvolving the Transcendental Meditation technique. He then reviewsthree large-scale health care utilization studies that demonstrate a 50%reduction in health care use among practitioners of the TranscendentalMeditation technique, when controlling for parameters such as age andoccupation.In the Improvement of the Economy Section, Drs. Ken Cavanaugh,Kurleigh King, and Birney Titus provide an overview of Maharishi’sVedic approach to understanding the dynamics of the economy andthen explore the hypothesis that the Maharishi Effect promotes animprovement in national prosperity and more positive economic trends.They further summarize research on the Maharishi Effect in both theU.S. and Canada, using Okun’s Misery Index.In the Invincible Defense section, Lt. General Tobias Dai, formercommander of the Armed Forces and former Minister of NationalDefence in Mozambique, reports on the use of the TranscendentalMeditation and TM-Sidhi program both in the Mozambique military,as well as among the citizens in several large Mozambique cities.Researchers found that when the army, composed of members practicingthe Transcendental Mediation and TM-Sidhi programs, remainedin one location during the first quarter of 1993, crime and traffic fatalitiesdecreased significantly throughout the nation, while traffic accidentsremained the same despite an increase of 3-4 times the numberof cars. When troop movements reduced the number of daily participantsof the TM and TM-Sidhi programs in an area, the crime indicesincreased. General Dai further notes that during 1993, the economy18