Best Wishes for the Prosperous New Year 1985

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year

Farewell and Best Wishes

permanent editor-in-chief is selected. With publication of this issue, I have reached a long-planned retirement from the NIEHS and Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ). The mission of EHP is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most curren...

Best Wishes for Your Successful Completion of the Examination!

Please remember that this is a closed-book examination. You must be prepared to answer 4 of the 7 questions. Although not necessary, you may prepare written answers, overhead figures, or any type of materials that you think might be useful in the presentation of your answers. You may bring such preparation materials with you to the examination. The oral examination itself will not extend beyond...

Advance directives: navigating conflicts between expressed wishes and best interests.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 91, Number 7 ◆ April 1, 2015 Case Scenario L.S. is a 70-year-old man with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He is intubated and unconscious in the intensive care unit with pneumonia complicated further by acute renal failure. His advance directive, completed seven years ago when he was highly functional, indicates that he wants lifesustaining treatments. He...

Wishes for object-oriented languages

For a long time, I have liked to compare the parameter-passing modes of Algol 60 (some of you are probably old enough to remember) with speakers at scientific conferences. Namely, call by value vs. call by name in Algol, and authors of regular papers vs. invited speakers at conferences. This time I am lucky enough to be in the latter category; I also used to say that these are sometimes people ...