Fight against terror 'needs science institute'

How to Fight Terror

way to the United States to sign the INF Treaty in December 1987. The stop, made on Gorbachev's initiative, had both a practical and symbolic purpose. He had no aspiration to detach Thatcher from Reagan. Gorbachev knew that was impossible, and it would not have suited his purpose anyway. It was her closeness to Reagan that made her so helpful as an interlocutor. But Gorbachev would have looked ...

A Classification of Biometric Applications Wanted by Politics: Passorts, Person Tracking and Fight Against Terror

This paper presents a classification of biometric applications wanted by politics in the shade of the terror attacks of Sep. 11th 2001. Politics in the urgent obligation to protect the health and property of inhabitants is in need to quickly find appropriate methods. Biometrics was one of the general technical methods almost immediately claimed for passports, person tracking, and fight against ...

The Fight against Diseases: Comments Related to “science for Man and Man for Science”

While the main topic of my presentation is science in search of solutions against diseases, therefore a topic definitely concerned with the contribution of “science for men”, I want to express my concern about the topic “man for science”. We cannot have only science applied to the betterment of mankind, or improvement of technologies: There will be no applied science if there is no science to a...

Fight against pneumonia.

Recently, WHO has decided to launch an annual “World Pneumonia Day” on November 2, 2009(1). The day will mobilize efforts to fight pneumonia, rightly called a ‘neglected’ or a ‘forgotten’ disease, that kills more than two million children under the age of five each year worldwide(2). The sudden shift of focus on pneumonia has raised many eyebrows and brought forward few issues that need clarifi...

The Fight against Poliomyelitis