The Spirit of the Laboratory: PROFESSOR CHARLES Special Articles: R. STOCKARD ........ 343 Magnetic Anomalies near Wilmington, N. C.: DR. The American Association for the Advancement of GERALD R. MACCARTHY and H. W. STALEY, III. Science: Effect of Certain Enzymes and Amino-Acids on Agricultural Besearch in China. II: H. K. HAYES 347 Crown Gall Tissues: DR. P. A. ARK. Sex Differences in Anemic B...

Over the years, a number of Jewish legal classics have become available to the English reading public. The Mishna, 1 the Babylonian Talmud 2 and the Abbreviated Code 3 have been the object of translation, and presently the Code of Maimonides is acquiring an English garb.4 However, the Mishna provides but the outline of Jewish law; the Talmud demands skills that can be commanded only after years...

In the context of deductive program verification, ghost code is part of the program that is added for the purpose of specification. Ghost code must not interfere with regular code, in the sense that it can be erased without any observable difference in the program outcome. In particular, ghost data cannot participate in regular computations and ghost code cannot mutate regular data or diverge. ...

the pure life (hayat al-tayyibah) is the real life of man which the worldly life with all its vast scope and the otherworldly life with its eternity and importance are the manifestations of this real life; this original and real life is a reality beyond the outward life and can be achieved in this world. the pure life is originated from high levels of human spirit; the faithful man in his subli...

I t was a sad day on Monday, April 13, 2009, for lifelong Detroit Tigers fans, when the news came that Mark " The Bird " Fidrych had died at age 54 in an accident on his farm in Massachusetts. Just the mention of his name brings back fond memories for me of the summer of 1976. That summer, as the nation celebrated its bicentennial, the number of murders skyrocketed in Detroit. The bitterness of...

The Anglophone philosophical world is currently riding a swelling wave of enthusiasm for a big, dense, blockbuster of a book by the previously unknown Jena philosopher, Georg Hegel. His Phenomenology of Spirit, originally in German, now available also in English, picks up and weaves together in a surprising and wholly original way a large number of today’s most fashionable ideas. Although he ne...

ADVANCES Summer 2003, VOL. 19, NO. 2 I want to thank Dr Rossman for so thoughtfully articulating a dilemma faced by many clinicians who work with and support patients, as well as their families, who are struggling with cancer. This dilemma arises when mind/body is divorced from spirit. Addressing spirit enables clinicians to resist the proclivity of conventional medicine to standardize care, ev...