Towards Shangri-La Marriage Through Louisa Alcott’s Novel Good Wives

Towards personalized medicine in sepsis: Quest for Shangri-La?

Inositides--confusion and clarification in Shangri-La.

For the most memorable meetings there are fine venues, then outstanding venues, and finally those that transcend any previous experience. Somewhere, perhaps above all of those, is the veritable Shangri-La of the Orange County Resort, Coorg, located 4,000 feet above sea level in the forests of the Western Ghats in India. About 60 scientists gathered there for four days to address some of the maj...

Medicinal plants used by Tibetans in Shangri-la, Yunnan, China

BACKGROUND Medicinal plants used by the local people in Xizang (Tibet) have been investigated since the 1960s. The others out of Xizang, however, have been less understood, although they may be easily and strongly influenced by the various local herbal practices, diverse environments, local religious beliefs and different prevalent types of diseases. In 2006, two ethnobotanical surveys were org...

Are Career Women Good for Marriage?∗

We study US divorce rates, which despite the continuing rise in female labor force participation (FLFP), have been falling since the mid-1980s, reversing a two-decade trend. A cross section of U.S. states for the year 2000 displays a negative relationship between the divorce rate and FLFP. We present theory and evidence in support of the view that these recent trends are the product of two dist...

Clinical research and networks – a good marriage?

The largest, most devastating outbreak of an infectious disease in modern history occurred in 1918, when a highly virulent influenza A H1N1 virus spread throughout the world and killed between 20 and 40 million people. This haunting memory has led to continued concern about the ongoing circulation of avian H5N1 influenza virus and sensitized the world to the potential of the recent H1N1 2009 pa...