5HE United States Air Force has expended considerab)le effort to get a full, accurate and meaningful account of what happened to its personnel wvvho wvere captured in Korea. I have been associated xvith these studies since , their beginnings three years ago. 13Zcause we believe the experiences of our returned prisoners of war can tell us much about the nature of a potential enemy, about the sol...

In the days immediately after the September 11 attacks on the U.S., we witnessed the ability of a country, its citizens, and its friends to pitch in during the most difficult of times. We all continue to be moved by acts of extraordinary heroism in New York City and Washington, D.C., and now in Afghanistan, where soldiers are risking their lives to defend our freedoms. There have been other con...

I wholeheartedly sympathize conceptually with Coeckelbergh's paper. The dialectical relationship between vulnerability and technology constitutes the core of Hegel's Master and Slave (the primal scene of contemporary philosophy). Yet, the empirical dimension is underdeveloped and Coeckelbergh's ideas could profit from exposure to case studies. Building on a movie/novel (Limitless) devoted to vu...

The Hunger Games plot features a dystopian future in which twelve outer districts are oppressed by a centralized capital. The story focuses on the heroism of a sixteen-year-old girl named Katniss and how she tries to rise above the oppression that she experiences. It also features a special lottery and other twists that are sources of mathematical interest. This essay focuses on some of the mat...

Whistleblowing by health professionals is an infrequent and extraordinary event and need not occur if internal voices are heard. Mannion and Davies' editorial on "Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations" asks the question whether whistleblowing ameliorates or exacerbates the 'deaf effect' prevalent in healthcare organisations. This comme...

le hussard sur le toit (1951) de jean giono est l’histoire d’un jeune colonel de hussards qui se réfugie en france où il découvre les ravages du choléra. considérant le choléra comme un révélateur des traits les plus profonds de l’homme, l’auteur étudie le courage du héros et de l’héroïne et quelques personnages comparses face aux conséquences de l’épidémie, à l’opposé d’une masse peureuse et é...