A Man Who Moved New Zealand

New Zealand: return of tobacco man.

Jim Burns, who in 1994 went from working in the office of the then Prime Minister, Jim Bolger, to be corporate affairs manager of Wills New Zealand, part of British American Tobacco (BAT), is once again in a post that has vital implications for tobacco control. Burns went to work abroad for eight years, most recently in the USA, where he was the vice-president, corporate and regulatory affairs ...

Parents who moved against the tide.

Who? What? Where? A snapshot of Nuclear Medicine Research Presentations from recent ANZSNM conferences in Australia and New Zealand.

Objective(s): The aims of this study were to: 1) discover location (by city) of contributors to poster and oral presentations at recent ANZSNM conferences; 2) determine the nuclear medicine themes most commonly explored; 3) establish institutions producing the highest number of oral and poster abstracts and 4) determine publication rates of conference abstracts to full...

A new philosophy of man and humanism

The theoretical basis for the new philosophy was laid by the American philosopher James Joseph Dagenais (1923-1981), who came to the conclusion that philosophical anthropology is not a science, but a domain unto itself, and that a philosophy of man can only come about as a joint undertaking of all sciences, in which the object of study must be man himself. The final explanation of man lies outs...

Who Moved My Chalk? A Toolbox for Language Teachers

Technology, media and the Internet are major agents of change in the language teaching profession. This presentation introduces skills and tools language teachers need to do their job more effectively and how they can embark on a strategy of self-development seeking assistance from institutional and organizational programs, peers and other sources. The following topics are addressed: (a) Change...