What the world needs now …

1 What the World Needs Now ?

in late 1999, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Seattle in one of the most visible manifestations of civil society in recent decades. They had gathered to show their opposition to the World Trade Organization (wto) and the broader forces of economic integration that it represents. The wto, which was meeting to set an agenda for a proposed new round of global trade negotiations, ...

The world needs midwives now more than ever.

the iraq crisis: what now?

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We Crashed, Now What?

We present an in-depth analysis of the crash-recovery problem and propose a novel approach to recover from otherwise fatal operating system (OS) crashes. We show how an unconventional, but careful, OS design, aided by automatic compiler-based code instrumentation, offers a practical solution towards the survivability of the entire system. Current results are encouraging and show that our approa...

Emerging diseases--what now?

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) was born in 1902 out of concern for the spread of infectious diseases. The outbreak of cholera in Hamburg in 1892 and the epidemics of yellow fever in the Americas led to the decision to establish the International Sanitary Bureau with permanent headquarters in Washington. At the conference that made this historic decision in 1902, participating count...