Doctor: As you know, you have severe emphysema and you will need to be on oxygen around the clock. JW: Yes, I know that. I am hardly able to move. I can’t finish a sentence without getting short of breath. Doctor: You must stop smoking. JW: I cannot and I will not. This is the only source of joy for me now. I know it is killing me. But I want you to know that I do not want to be placed on the v...

Adventist mission in West Central Africa has been plagued by issues such as dual allegiance and syncretism which in certain ways have resulted in retarded growth (in comparison with other younger Christian denominations) and dwarfed the faith experiences among church members. In contrast, the book of Acts showcases a mission template with unparalleled growth and pristine faith. The task of this...

(By our Special Commissioner.) "D OBERT IvETT, the tanner, in 1549, with a fine instinct for the public health, led a movement of discontent against the enclosure of common lands. He was hanged in chains from the top of Norwich Castle, three hundred of his followers also being hanged in order to point the moral. Nowadays Rett would be far more likely to have found recognition of his public serv...

In a recent essay, I reviewed the latest publications of 1S1 Press$) .1 Among these is a biography of the turn-of-thecentury British zoologist, Walter Rothschild, entitled Dear Lord iZofhschifd: Birds, Butte&ies and History.2 The book was written by Miriam Rothschdd, a d~tinguished entomologist who is also Walter’s niece. She has produced a most entertaining and informative account of his life ...

Blood, sweat and cheers. By Ian Fraser. (pp 150. £.14.95. Inland f£17.50; Abroad $29.00 USA). London: British Medical Journal, The Memoir Club, 1989. The Memoir Club has already published in this series recollections of various distinguished medical personalities Sir Christopher Booth, Sir Douglas Black, Dr Moran Campbell, Sir James Howie and Lord Taylor. It is happy and appropriate as far as U...

Sage Valmiki in his epic Ramayana had mentioned various planetary positions, lagna and birth star but did not mention precise position of each planet the chart Lord Shri Ram. Based on our previous research work [4, 7, 11, 13, 19, 22, 16, 25, 61, 62], we found out Mars’s dasa varga positions compared results with Ram’s life as described Valmiki’s Ramayana. The for Dasa ‘Vargas classifications’ ‘...

In March 2020, Stony Brook University Libraries began documenting campus communications and the events locally unfolding as COVID-19 pandemic emerged across world. These efforts evolved into a larger rapid-response collecting project planned managed remotely. Documenting COVID-19: Experiences was developed to preserve institutional history experiences. With scope of personal narratives, photogr...