For West Nile Virus: Prevention Is The Watchword

As the West Nile Virus continues to affect more and more in USA, physicians have suggested that precaution is the way to contain the epidemic. West Nile virus activity peaks in August and September, according to the U.S.// Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and floodwaters and rain fr...

Kronos Science Laboratories (KSL) Has Lost a Great Leader and a Good Friend, Dr. Chris Heward

...n how things work. He was a consummate skeptic, with an incredibly sensitive nose for B.S. Chris loved a good debate; controversy was his metier. His watchword was, "Show me the data," which he would then mercilessly dissect. There was no possibility of slipping shoddy work or faulty thinking past Dr. Chris ...

Understanding the have-knots: The role of stress in just about everything

...re. The two intertwine in subtle and complicated ways, with environments affecting gene expression, and vice versa, throughout life. Thus, the current watchword is stress-diathesis models, in which environmental stressors have varying impact on individuals due to preexisting inherited vulnerabilities. One ...

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Restructuring is a watchword for IT in 2005

Madison, Wis. Information-technology businesses are taking apart their processes and putting them back together. With the Fusion 2005 CEO-CIO Symposium on Wednesday just around the corner, some of the experts watching IT in Wisconsin offered their opinions on how the state and its industries w...

The Year Ahead in IT

...hat suggests film and music moguls and technology innovators finally will get along. But the rest of it: Expect it in 2004. 4. Simple becomes the watchword of Enterprise IT environments. LAST YEAR: The days of multimillion dollar, multi-month enterprise application implementations are over, and com...

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Eugenics

... in the earliest years of the 20th century. The difference this time around is, however, the guarded attitude towards "eugenics"—it has become a watchword to be feared rather than embraced. Only a few researchers, such as the controversial psychologist Richard Lynn , have openly called for eugenic pol...