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Book Review: Another Science Is Possible

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

One thing leads to another.

In 1956, the JCI published an article by Vincent Dole on a method for titrating plasma fatty acids that uncovered the importance of fatty acids as a substrate for glucose metabolism. When asked to prepare a historical perspective on this very popular paper, I paid Dole a visit and we reminisced. His answer to my question of how he came to do this work on plasma fatty acids was: "Well, one thing...

“Saying is one thing; doing is another”: the role of observation in marketing research

In comparison to other techniques of data collection, observation rarely appears as a research methodology in the marketing literature: this may be because the technique is regarded as time-consuming or as delivering data which lack the depth and qualitative richness of other research methodologies. In this article, the authors attempt to demonstrate that this is not the case. Far from providin...

Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) is the Main Cureavailable for Thalassamia

Introduction: The thalassamias refer to a diverse group of hemoglobin disorders characterized by a reduced synthesis of  one or more of globin chains (α,β, γ, δβ,γδβ, δ and εγδβ).The main cure available today for thalassamia is bone marrow transplantation (BMT)  from compatible donor.On December 3, 1981 a 14-month-old child with β-thalassemia major recieved BMT from his HLA-identical sister in...