The Issues4Life Foundation, for example, is a faith-based organization that targets and works with African-American leaders toward achieving the goal of “zero African-American lives lost to abortion or biotechnology.” In April, Issues4Life wrote to the Congressional Black Caucus to denounce Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and its “racist and eugenic goals.”The group blamed PPFA ...

Glenn T. Seaborg, the president-e'ect, has served science and has encouraged the utilization of science in the service of mankind for more than 30 years. His contributions have ranged from those of an outstanding laboratory research scientist, with accomplishments worthy of the Nobel prize, to those of the government public servant, who encouraged the use of science and technology for improveme...

increase of influence and dominance over independent republics of central assia and caucasus in order to utilize the natural overflowing sources of this region is in immense strategy of america in future. therefore, by expanding nato into this region america is trying to decrease the influence of russia in these republics and in the meantime fulfilling the above purpose and also to prevent the ...

This year Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) celebrates its first 20 years as the American Society for Cell Biology’s (ASCB’s) science journal. The cover of this special anniversary issue shows 20 different organisms to highlight the diversity of the cell biology featured in our pages and to affirm our belief that studies of diverse organisms make the understanding of cell biology richer and ...

BACKGROUND During the Suharto era public funding of health in Indonesia was low and the health services were tightly controlled by the central government; district health staff had practically no discretion over expenditure. Following the downfall of President Suharto there was a radical political, administrative and fiscal decentralization with delivery of services becoming the responsibility ...

This investigation is part of an internally-funded research initiative towards processing open source texts (i .e . , free natural language texts drawn from broadcast transcripts, news wires, etc .) . This initiative has been underway for just over half a year, prior to which our group was focusing nearly exclusively on natural language interfaces t o expert systems . We are thus newcomers to t...

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2011;24(1):21–26 I n his defi nitive history on the early days of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Alan Chesney wrote of Mary Elizabeth Garrett as follows: “For to this lady, more than any other single person, save only Johns Hopkins himself, does the School of Medicine owe its being” (1). Strong words indeed, and doubly important because of the truth they convey. Mos...

Recognizing known faces of possible speakers at the train station is usually how the journey to the outstanding Bürgenstock conference starts, now held in the majestic village of Brunnen, Switzerland (Fig. 1). Tradition dictates that the programme remains a mystery until the beginning of the conference and that speakers can only give one plenary lecture during their life-time. The conference is...