BACKGROUND Individuals living in poverty are more likely to smoke, and they suffer disproportionately from tobacco use. Strategies used to deliver tobacco-cessation interventions often fail to reach smokers living in poverty. Providing tobacco interventions to smokers when they present to community organizations is a potential strategy, but the acceptability and effectiveness of such interventi...

The only salvation froln the continuously driving inferiority feeling is the knowledge and the feeling of being valuable which originates from the contribution to the common welfare. In the same way, it is the individual's contribution to the v/elfare of mankind through his children and his work which promises hirn the claim 011 immortality, in satisfaction of the general human striving not to ...

Technological innovation and private entrepreneurship are 'change-makers' increasingly counted upon to avert social and environmental crisis. However, as crisis deepens into the possibility of catastrophe, given the likes of resource wars and climate change, the quest for solutions is morphing into a requirement for near-salvation. The situation is an odd one. Messianic hopes are being invested...

I love you, I love you, always. Hut not alone, cigar smoking executive burned my eyes open as assembly-line statistics flash on his distorted mohair suit; a better idea cun never be.,., until.... a housewife starlet bitches her automatic washer under eyes of the plastic-wax grapefruit who winks at the grapes wondering when they will become bio-dcgradeable and the lemon wax will wear off them in...

One swears by whole meal bread, one by sour milk; vegetarianism is the only road to salvation of some, others insist not only on vegetables alone, but on eating those raw. At one time the only thing that matters is calories; at another time they are crazy about vitamins and roughage. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, have an ordinary mixed diet and don’t worry. Sir ...

In Rigveda Soma is an evergreen plant, with thousand stalks yellow hued bestowing auspicious energy. Resembling yellow fibres of hemp ephedra was rained in Chlnoso Ho-Ma, Yellow-hemp. It was Sanskritized as Soma. Being an energizer-cum-euphoriant its juice was consumed thrice daily. Finally it became a drug of longevity, rejuvenation and resurrection even god Soma. As drug it was substituted by...

Using the picosecond spectra-streak method we monitored the dynamics of preferential solvation of a charge-transfer dipole in binary mixtures of solvents strongly different in dielectric constant. The observed slow (0.25-l ns) spectra1 red-shift of the charge-transfer (exciplex) fluorescence is considered to be mainly due to the formation and the dielectric enrichment of the salvation shell aro...