America’s pyramids: Presidents and their libraries

America's pyramids: Presidents and their libraries

As the days pass, preparations continue to establish the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. America's tenth Presidential Library is in its early period of formation. In Fall 2000 a former auto dealership's building, with 30,000 thousand square feet of space and plans for adding another 20,000 square feet, in Little Rock, Arkansas began as the home for the t...

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

Spectral libraries and their uncertainties

Libraries of stellar spectra are fundamental tools in the study of stellar populations and in automatic determination of atmospheric parameters for large samples of observed stars. In the context of the present volume, here I give an overview of the current status of stellar spectral libraries from the perspective of stellar population modeling: what we have currently available, how good they a...

Hantaviruses in the Americas and Their Role as Emerging Pathogens

The continued emergence and re-emergence of pathogens represent an ongoing, sometimes major, threat to populations. Hantaviruses (family Bunyaviridae) and their associated human diseases were considered to be confined to Eurasia, but the occurrence of an outbreak in 1993-94 in the southwestern United States led to a great increase in their study among virologists worldwide. Well over 40 hantavi...

Underwriting the presidents.

The United States has had 43 presidents. We examined whether they survive significantly longer or shorter than their contemporaries. We found that survival was better for presidents elected in the 1789-1841 and 1933-2001 periods (SMRs of 0.7 and 0.6, respectively), but worse for those elected in 1845-1929 (SMR = 2.9). We also found increased mortality during the years lived in office (SMR = 1.4...