LA DOLCE VITA VERSUS LA VITA SOBRIA

Decline of la dolce vita

grasses in New Zealand suggests that some adapted to low grazing pressure as a result of no major herbivores with a distinctive habit — the shedding of old leaves by abscission. The feature of leaf shedding occurs in only about three per cent of the world’s estimated 11,000 grass species, writes Alexandre Antonelli at the University of Zurich and colleagues in Switzerland and New Zealand in the...

La Dolce Vita: A Molecular Feast in Plant–Pathogen Interactions

very different extracellular and intracellular lifestyles. Thus, it was astounding that all of these R genes encode United Kingdom a limited set of products with related structural features. The cloning of R genes continues apace and has recently been augmented by isolation of other key signal transPlants are sessile organisms and lack a circulating, so-duction components. Additionally, the las...

Neglecting the Risks: The Irrationality of Health Behavior and the Quest for La Dolce Vita

The paper is a discussion of personal risk taking and risk perception in the field of health-related behavior. It reviews work on addictions, which has shown the difficulties of impulse control in the pursuit of long-term commitments. Such long-term commitments are typically in conflict with temporary and strong urges to indulge in seeking pleasure and comfort. People know and do not know, at t...

Vita Summary

Vita: Friedrich Wilhelm Wiener

We report on the life and work of F. Wiener, whom we confused with N. Wiener in a previous article.