UTSA announces funding for new faculty research

...Patrice Johnelle Sparks, Assistant Professor, Demography and Organization Studies (COPP) How does aging affect biochemical neuronal function? PI: fidel Santamaria, Assistant Professor of Computation and Neural Systems (COS) Funds awarded through the CRSGP and TRAC programs will be disbursed by Sep....

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

...elligence Agency mounted innumerable attempts to kill its bete noire, Cubas fidel Castro, is well known . Forget the politics of it all, the CIA has ... some icing to the cake. The closest the CIA came to killing Cuba's fidel Castro was a 1963 attempt with a poison pill delivered by American mobsters...

Cuban Healthcare Delivers, Experts Say

... and lack equipment and medicines. But the health system built by President fidel Castro's government has produced results on a par with rich nations using ...ystem as one of the achievements of the revolution launched by Cuban leader fidel Castro in 1959, critics of the Cuban government say health care and other s...

The American Dream Comes True for 105-year-old Cuban

...he former fisherman is convinced he will outlive the ailing Cuban President fidel Castro he once plotted to assassinate. "He's far less healthy than ...at included three of his sons. "I received arms from here to topple fidel Castro. To fight," Temprana told AFP. "There were a lot of us, but ...

Where is Our Soul, Asks Michael Moore

...o that which Islamic militant suspects receive at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. "I think when Americans see this they are not going to focus on Cuba or fidel Castro," Moore said, referring to the controversy surrounding his trip to Cuba, which has prompted a U.S. government investigation. "They are goi...

Fidel Castro Appeals for Investment in Health Rather Than in Arms

... In a new reflection on the dangers currently gripping humanity, Cuban President fidel Castro called for governments of the world to invest in public health and not arms. The non-profit exercise of medicine is capable of gaining...

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...ly encountered Cuban or Cuban-trained doctors in poor communities around the world. They visited Cuba in May 2000, and during a conversation with fidel Castro, Thompson brought up the lack of medical access for his poor, rural constituents. "He [Castro] was very familiar with the unemployment rates, h...

Fidel Castro's Condition Deteriorates After Surgery

... Madrid: The health of Cuban leader fidel Castro has deteriorated following a series of three failed operations, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported Tuesday.// Castro is in 'very grave' co...

Spanish Doctor to Examine Cuban Leader Castro

... A renowned Spanish physician is to examine ailing Cuban leader fidel Castro, Barcelona's daily El Periodico de Catalunya reported on Sunday.// ...years. A renowned Spanish physician is to examine ailing Cuban leader fidel Castro, Barcelona's daily El Periodico de Catalunya said Sunday. Source...

Fidel in Biological News

Conference to explore sustainability of biofuels

...nference will be William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Philip Fearnside of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas de Amazonia; fidel Mingorance of Human Rights Everywhere; Helena Paul of Econexus; Renton Righelato of World Land Trust; Stanley Burgiel of the Nature Conservancy's Glob...

AGU journal highlights -- August 6, 2008

..., M. Bruce Stevens, and Hugo Beltrami: Environmental Sciences Research Centre, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada; J. fidel Gonzlez-Rouco: Departamento de Astrofsica y Ciencias de al Atmsfera, Universitas Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Source: Geophysical Rese...

Virginia Bioinformatics Institutes launches microbial database

...or and professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science at Virginia Tech, and VBI researchers Sucheta Tripathy, Varun Pandey, Bing Fang, and fidel Salas. VMD is an integrated resource that includes community annotation features, toolkits, and resources to perform complex queries of biological...