A Generation Lost in the Bazaar

A Lost Generation

The funding policies of the NIH have made it increasingly difficult for young researchers to procure research funds. This threatens to drive a whole generation of young people away from careers in basic biomedical research.

The Lost Generation

In the 1960s and 1970s, China’s barefoot doctor system was acclaimed worldwide for providing inexpensive and equally accessible medical care for rural populations. In the 1980s, with the advent of market reform, the barefoot doctor system came to an end. Many barefoot doctors either became private doctors or gave up medical practice. More than three decades have passed since this dramatic chang...

A Generation of Lost Health.

The Knowledge Bazaar

The concept of the Knowledge Bazaar as a paradigm for the development of Expert Systems, whereby knowledge bases are created dynamically using knowledge supplied by self appointed Internet communities is proposed. The idea espouses the creation of individual Knowledge Bazaars, operating in specific domains, but all operating through a generic Knowledge Bazaar XML Web application. Issues address...

Global bazaar.

The women maneuvered their crude canoes down narrow alleys of brack ish water. They dipped their paddles lightly, gliding slowly past scrap-built houses elevated on spindly sticks that held the structures just beyond the reach of the tide. Here and there a head popped out of one of the homes to check who or what was passing. In the small harbor where the women beached their boats, the shoreline...