The US President's Council on Bioethics [3] was an organization [4] headquartered in Washington D.C. that was chartered to advise then US President George W. Bush [5] on ethical issues related to biomedical science and technology. In November 2001, US President George W. Bush [5] created the President's Council on Bioethics [3] (PCB). Convened during a nationwide cloning [6] and embryonic stem ...

On 27 October 2002, the voters of Brazil chose Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT) to be their next president, giving him a wide margin of victory with 61.3 percent in a two-candidate runoff against José Serra of the Social Democratic Party (PDSB). Does the election—on his fourth try—of this lathe operator turned trade union leader and the ascendance of his leftist party signal...

Quantitative approaches and application of fundamentals are the currency of chemical engineers. Our accomplishments in pharmaceuticals, food, materials, and energy are unsurpassed in providing solutions critical to societal well-being. For the last 40 years, spurred by the biological revolution and the expansion of the pharmaceutical industry into biologics, chemical engineering—as in any robus...

in the study of the subjects of constitutional law, analysis of position of the public authorities in the light of their jurisdiction is the most important approach regarding the evaluation of their power within the arena of political society. when an authority is known as a powerful authority among his other counterparts, the significance for the study of the position of this authority becomes...