Ondine's curse: myth meets reality

Judicial Myth and Reality

Mesopancreas: myth or reality?

CONTEXT A recently published study hypothesized the concept of 'mesopancreas', defining it as a firm, well-vascularized structure extending from the posterior surface of the pancreatic head to behind the mesenteric vessels. OBJECTIVE To verify and define mesopancreas from resection specimens obtained from fresh cadavers. DESIGN Postmortem anatomical-pathological study. SETTING Department ...

Unicorn. Myth and reality

RUDIGER ROBERT BEER, Unicorn. Myth and reality, translated by Charles M. Stem, New York and London, Ash & Grant, 1977, 8vo, pp. 215, illus., £7.95. The original versions of this book were published in German. It now appears in an elegant volume with a multitude of illustrations taken from a wide variety of sources, including tapestries, mosaics, and carvings, as well as manuscripts and printed ...

Pittsburgh myth, Paris reality.

hen announcing his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, President Trump reminded the world that, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” In doing so, he repeated a tired trope: that Pittsburgh is a rusty urban relic—a manufacturing city of steel that has fallen on hard times, held back by unfair global competition and onerous environmental...

Globalization: Myth and Reality

The paper takes Hirst, P., and Thompson, G., 1996, Globalization in Question as the basis for developing some arguments on the globalization debate. Following a summary of the book, the paper focuses on three points. Firstly the need to divorce the issue of globalism from the one on liberalism. Secondly, the authors’ thesis that very little has changed in the international scene in the last few...