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One hundred years of presidents of SAB/ASM: the Rockefeller connection.

This article on "The Rockefeller Connection" will focus on three Presidents who served terms that occurred during a period of eleven years in the middle third of the century: Oswald T. Avery in 1941, Rebecca C. Lancefield in 1943, and Rene J. Dubos in 1952. Each of them was, thus, president while the institution was still officially known as The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. There...

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

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...

Presidents who value science.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 323 13 FEBRUARY 2009 843 COVER An image of Mare Moscoviense on the lunar farside, taken by the Terrain Camera aboard the SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft on 17 January 2008. Crater frequency distributions derived from such images yield ages of about 2.5 billion years for several volcanic deposits in this mare, indicating that volcanism on the lunar farside lasted about ...

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