We always look forward to when the rain will end. Rain means darkness, wet shoes, staring at the sidewalk and never at the sky. Rain means windshield wipers and ruined hair and cold hands. Gloom. So we wait. We watch the ...

An unusual opportunity was afforded us to study the antibody content of pathologic spleens from two patients who underwent splenectoamy; one for spontaneous rupture of the spleen in infectious mononucleosis and the other ...

It is difficult to think of a group whose goals and actions resist a simple characterization more than that of the Lebanon-based “Hezbollah” (Hizbulla, Hizballah). Viewed by some as protectors and others as a threat, this ...

A retroviral vector (pSFF) derived from murine Friend spleen focus forming virus was used to transduce murine hematopoietic stem cells and express a cell surface marker protein, mutated murine prion protein, in vivo after ...

“How is it that something that has no definitive theological intent”, underground hip-hop “being our prime example, provides such a spiritual encounter, and how then can we dare say that one might experience a connection ...

From the 1940s to the 1990s, Japan’s military has undergone serious changes. Reinstitutionalized, defense has grown larger within an American alliance and as a member of the United States containment strategy.3 The United ...

Montana was to its founders a synonym of romance and hardship; Montana is to its later generations a land of riches and opportunity uncovered and exploited by the hardy men who braved the stat's terrible winders, its hostile ...

The purpose of this research study is a better understanding of the culture, experiences, and responses of parish nurses and their patients in Swaziland, Africa in relation to the problem of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the ...

I studied the effects of gender and habitat patch size * on the home range of the Florida Scrub Lizard (Sceloporus woodi) for a period of three months during the summer of 1997. Scrub Lizards were trapped using 5-gallon ...

Horacio Quiroga has often been labeled the Edgar Allan Poe of Latin America. He experienced many tragedies in his life that tremendously impacted his literary works. In 1879, Quiroga’s father accidentally shot and killed ...