Gorbachev leads silicon summit

Reasoning about ignorance: a note on the Bush-Gorbachev problem

The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis.

Political and economic transition is often blamed for Russia's 40% surge in deaths between 1990 and 1994. Highlighting that increases in mortality occurred primarily among alcohol-related causes and among working-age men (the heaviest drinkers), this paper investigates an alternative explanation: the demise of the 1985-1988 Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign. Using archival sources to build a new ...

The summit.

of the programs (interventions) are on the horizon. Although such evaluations are not intended to be threatening , there is a pervasive fear that any findings that are critical will bear negatively on the ability to attract funds for future activities. But, the potential threat that could be associated with negatively perceived findings raises caution flags relative to participating in evaluati...

Growth and Development Summit

Brucellosis summit in Geneva.

The sixth meeting of the Joint FAD/WHO Expert Committee on Brucellosis, which was held in Geneva from 12to 19 November 1985, received a great deal less publicity than the USA-USSR political summit taking place nearby. Nevertheless, the Committee discussed important worldwide issues affecting human and animal health and reviewed the developments in brucellosis which have occurred since 1970, whe...