Triumph And Tragedy

The Triumph and Tragedy of Tobacco Control: A Tale of Nine Nations

Triumph and/or tragedy: the present Food and Drug Administration program of enriching grains with folic acid.

Triumph Motorcycle Models

Triumph was started by two Germans, Siegfried Bettman and Mauritz Schulte, and was the company was founded in 1886 making bicycles and based in Coventry. A quarrel led to a split and Schulte continued, focusing on simple reliable machines. Triumph hit financial problems in the 1930's during the depression, and was sold to Ariel in 1936. It was at this point that Edward Turner was appointed Chie...

Nigeria's triumph: dracunculiasis eradicated.

This report describes how Nigeria, a country that at one time had the highest number of cases of dracunculiasis (Guinea worm disease) in the world, reduced the number of cases from more than 653,000 in 1988 to zero in 2009, despite numerous challenges. Village-based volunteers formed the foundation of the program, which used health education, cloth filters, vector control, advocacy for safe wat...

Sex, death and tragedy.

The population consequences of sexual conflict are relatively unexplored. In a recent paper, Le Galliard et al. now show that males of the common lizard Lacerta vivipara cause such damage to females that male-biased populations decrease in size, posing a real risk to the persistence of local lizard populations. Their study reveals surprising parallels between sexual conflict and the tragedy of ...