ABOUT THE AUTHOR LELYA AREY. POETRY. MY KING DOES NOT FORGIVE ADULTERY. I LIKE MY LOVE SO MUCH. I’M YOURS TO PLAY YOUR TUNE, MY LOVE.

"I love you from the bottom of my heart".

My love-hate of Sci-Hub.

ike many scientist-editors of journals published by nonprofit scientific societies, I have a love-hate relationship with Sci-Hub, the website operated out of Russia that provides access to 50 million pirated scientific articles to researchers worldwide (see the News story on p. 508). I recognize the underlying motivation of bringing global research content to the developing world. However, I al...

“I Love You, You Pay My Rent”: Belarusian-Russian Integration

The history of Russian-Belarusian integration is a strange history indeed. Throughout the whole decade ever since 1995, the two countries have engaged in a highly publicized series of diplomatic exchanges about their commitment to the Union state between each other, and ever-closer union it were to be in political, economic and military spheres. Yet despite all public declarations and the expan...

My reality and yours.

I was having coffee with a friend in a Greenwich Village café when he announced suddenly that we had to leave. " Why? " I asked. Because, he said, acid was dripping from the ceiling. I thought for a moment and took a chance. I asked whether he wanted me to take him to the VA hospital in Northport, about an hour's drive from Manhattan. His answer, " yes, " was a sur-prise—and a relief. The dripp...

Dedicated to Lisa The spring of love in my life