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EDITH SILVERGLIED LISANSKYGomberg, PhD, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, emerita at the University of Michigan, died peacefully in her sleep on Sunday January 9, just 5 days short of her 85th birthday. Described by Sharon Wilsnack, an international authority on alcohol problems in women, as ‘‘truly the ‘grandmother’ of gender and alcohol research,’’ she was schooled at a time when women w...

In 1920 Walter Ellis Sistrunk described the classic operation of thyroglossal cyst excision including the central portion of the hyoid bone and a core of tissue around the thyroglossal tract to open into the oral cavity at the foramen caecum. We present this paper and discuss its relevance to current practice.

Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy, where he grew up in a Jewish ghetto. He studied art in Florence, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and other leading artists of his era. In Paris, he was influenced by fauvism, the avant-garde art movement promoting a strong, emotional, and nonrealistic use of color, and by his friend the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, known...

JERE MEAD did something very unusual. He established a whole new field of research. Respiratory Mechanics was his invention. Sure, there had been sporadic forays into the field beforehand, but nothing systematic. He created, developed, nurtured, and maintained this field while stimulating thousands of scientists from around the world to join him on his remarkable voyage of discovery. The luckie...

Though evidence is slight that books ever helped spread the epidemics of s mallpox, tub erculosis, and scarlet fever that raged in American and European cities at the turn of the century, fear of such a possibility led public libraries to adopt extraordinary measures in efforts to decontaminate books that had circulated to infected borrowers. In many cases library officials elected to destroy s...

BACKGROUND Sleeping sickness is a parasitic, vector-borne disease, carried by the tsetse fly and prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. The disease continues to pose a public health burden in Uganda, which experienced a widespread outbreak in 1900-1920, and a more recent outbreak in 1976-1989. The disease continues to spread to uninfected districts. OBJECTIVES This paper compares the spatial distri...