Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as Dr. Sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. He is credited for the establishment of the Iranian Association of Rehabilitation, Shafa Yahyaian Hospital as an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center, the Social Welfare Organization, Iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

Silvio Berlusconi has dominated Italian political life since he was first elected prime minister in 1994. He has been the third longest-serving prime minister of Italy, after Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti, and, as of May 2011, he was the longest-serving current leader of a G8 country. This political longevity is often difficult to understand for foreign political analysts. The former I...

The Honourable Agnes Binagwaho MD PhD has been the Minister for Health of the Republic of Rwanda since 2011. With extensive professional clinical experience as a paediatrician, she seems to be the ideal Minister of Health and her achievements thus far have proved this. Just recently in 2015, the Honourable Minister was awarded the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Roux Prize, the lar...

tor General of ESO, Foreign Minister José Miguel Insulza and President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle. The original language version of the four addresses follows this introduction. (A translation in English of the Span-ish text is given on pages 58 and 59 in this issue of The Messenger.) A time capsule whose contents are described in Dr. Richard West's article was then deposited by President Frei wit...