(Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise today with a heavy heart to celebrate the life of Jon Richards, a Georgia treasure, a brilliant political journalist, a selfless mentor. He passed away this past Sunday after a battle with cancer. Our prayers go o...

When choosing between alternatives of uncertain quality, one can learn from other decision-makers either through communicating with them about the reasons underlying their choices, or through simply observing their choices. The former way of learning has been extensively studied in the word-of-mouth (WOM) literature, while the latter way, labelled silent word-of-mouth (SWOM), has received less ...

T he genomes of many species, including man, have been laid bare with hundreds of known and thousands of unknown genes. A major challenge in present day biology is to decipher the molecular function of the unknown genes. Gene knockout by homologous recombination has proven to be very useful but is laborious and expensive. Antisense and ribozyme technology have been useful but are not always rel...

Amani was a 24-year-old woman in her second year of nursing school in Jerusalem. She lived with her extended family, including her parents, grandparents, and six older brothers, who had emigrated from Syria more than 10 years earlier. They are religious Muslim Arabs who lived in an Arab village not far from our cancer center in Jerusalem. For more than a year, Amani had experienced symptoms of ...