You Can't Stop the Rain: José Betancourt, MD, Cuban Civil Defense.

Should the US Lift the Cuban Embargo? Yes; Maybe It Has; and Not for Free!

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While a group of American tourists rested and sipped sugar cane nectar following a boat tour of limestone caverns outside Viñales, Cuba, a two-year-old member of the entourage delighted in discovering a friendly puppy. As the toddler frolicked with the Cuban dog, several locals gathered to watch the playful scene. An older man, the puppy's owner, turned to the girl's Ameri-can parents and queri...

COMMENTS ON “Rainfall in Little Havana” by Roqué

Roqué’s paper is a clear, clean and useful example of the use of Markov Chains in forecasting. It can be easily implemented with Cuban data, in the same manner Roqué has done in the Little Havana example. This work could even be broken down by provinces, or by geographical regions, and used in agriculture, construction and other outdoor activities that are substantially affected by rain, with o...

Casting the discovery net too wide: defense attempts to disclose nonparty medical records in a civil action.

Imagine that you are a parent who has just filed a negligence suit on behalf of your child. Although not a party to the suit, the defense seeks the release of your personal medical, psychiatric, and school records to challenge your child’s claims of causation. It is not unreasonable that your initial reaction would be surprise or even shock given that such practices threaten to invade your most...

Community based rehabilitation programmes: monitoring and evaluation in order to measure results.

Although Community Based Rehabilitation has now formally existed for almost 30 years, few papers have been written about the results of this approach. The authors hope to contribute with this paper towards methodologies that will help to measure results of Community Based Rehabilitation programmes. The importance of establishing--prior to the development of Community Based Rehabilitation--an ex...