Is Our Age Destined to Incarnate Democracy Itself?

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Physics Incarnate

Over 50 years ago, C. P. Snow warned that a growing chasm between scientific and literary intellectuals would leave society ill-prepared to solve its most pressing problems. In his now classic lecture (later published as an essay), ‘‘The Two Cultures,’’ Snow—who as a physicist and novelist had special insight into the problem—described the depth of the divide and appeared to chide the willful i...

Coronary artery bypass surgery in old age group: is age itself a barrier?

OBJECTIVE To analyse the data retrospectively and identify risk factors that may adversely affect mortality in patients aged seventy years and older with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). METHODS From Jan 2003 to Oct 2007, 63 consecutive patients of 70 years or older underwent primary isolated CABG on cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in Department of Surgery, Liaquat National Hospital. Forty o...

Surgery Is Destined to the Practice of Medicine

Daniela Sandler - Incarnate Politics

To describe Berlin as a construction site has become a cliché. A report from March 2000 in The Architectural Review reads: “Cranes have dominated Berlin’s skyline [for] the past ten years.” 1 Five years prior, an article in Art in America declared: “Six years after the fall of the Wall, Berlin is coming more and more to resemble a vast construction site.” 2 Cranes and scaffolding can be seen al...