The common quest

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

Silence as the Ultimate Fulfillment of the Philosophical Quest

Common variable immunodeficiency - new insight into the pathogenesis and the quest for a workable classification.

In this editorial we argue that more and more complex classifications for patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) fail to identify those patients at high risk of developing infections. We propose that the minimal requirement to identify such patients is the absolute numbers of total and memory B cells and the IgM response to immunization with polysaccharides. If these data should ...

The manifold nature of interpersonal relations: the quest for a common mechanism.

It has been proposed that the capacity to code the 'like me' analogy between self and others constitutes a basic prerequisite and a starting point for social cognition. It is by means of this self/other equivalence that meaningful social bonds can be established, that we can recognize others as similar to us, and that imitation can take place. In this article I discuss recent neurophysiological...

the quest for an hiv vaccine