“Send in the clones” (Newsweek), “Brave new world” (Los Angeles Times) and “Could we now raise the dead?” (London Daily Mail ) were three of the headlines triggered by the announcement from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh of a viable lamb derived from an adult mammary cell [1]. Perhaps encouraged by team leader Ian Wilmut’s explanation of the name given to Dolly (“We couldn’t think of a more ...

News anti-malarial measures would deliver benefits of more than US$ 400 billion, according to the report. Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, director of WHO's Roll Back Malaria Department , said she was quite happy to see malaria ranked as it was. " The panel acknowledged that malaria prevention and treatment have a high benefit–cost ratio. Their proposal would make a huge difference. From our viewpoint...

eries of sanctions and prolonged wars have brought enormous calamities in Iraq. In a country where a major bulk of population are children, massive deterioration in physical, mental and social health has been witnessed during and after the conflicts in Iraq. With respect to the increasing burden of infections that have incapacitated children and their lives, the state of nutrition and unavailab...

Title of Dissertation: FORMALIZING THE INFORMAL: A NETWORK ANALYSIS OF AN INSURGENCY Brian Joseph Reed, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor David R. Segal Department of Sociology This research project applies Social Network Analysis to Saddam Hussein’s network and demonstrates how network analysis techniques uncovered a web of family and tribal linkages that resulted ...

The cost of finding out that Saddam Hussein, as most of the world suspected, harbored no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction has cost us well over $100 billion in the past year. This sum is greater than the total amount budgeted for NIH, NSF, and the entire U.S. Department of Education, combined. This massive expenditure comes at a time when state-funded universities are facing dire econo...

Since the threat posed by Saddam Hussein became the leading issue in American politics and international relations in late summer 2002, American public opinion has been out of step with public opinion in other western democracies. In the months leading up to the war, compared with citizens elsewhere, fewer Americans felt that war in Iraq was unjustified, fewer felt that UN-endorsement was neces...

Previous work in AI story understanding has largely been used to build tools which can summarize stories and categorize them according to the events they describe (e.g., the technologies developed for the Message Understanding Conferences). These sorts of technologies are built around the assumptions that (1) events reported as facts in news stories should be “understood” as facts; (2) the styl...

On December 19, 2002, the RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security hosted a workshop on the challenges the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces as a result of the chemical and biological threats of international terrorism to domestic and overseas U.S. targets: people and organizations, civilian and military. Awareness of these threats was dramatically heightened by th...