Transkei is becoming headline news. Until recently this corner of South Africa was known in Britain only to a few tourists for its rolling hills dotted with huts; its "red blanket" tribespeople; and its click-language-recently heard over here in the African musical Ipi Tombi. On 26 October it became the Republic of Transkei-the first "independent African homeland" of South Africa. Like any deve...

This chapter proposes that search engines apply a verticalizing pressure on the WWW many-to-many information distribution model, forcing this to revert to a distributive model similar to that of the mass media. The argument for this starts with a critical descriptive examination of the history of search mechanisms for the Internet. Parallel to this there is a discussion of the increasing ties b...

The article by Ghosh and Ghealen in the current issue of Syk in AD are poorly understood. In addition, little is known about EBioMedicine provides new insights into the pathophysiology of the inflammatory system in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The story describing the accumulation of aggregated proteins in the AD brain, including β-amyloid and tau protein, has been developing since Alois Alzheimer...