The weather is a topic about which nearly everyone readily comments or has an opinion. Today another topic has emerged to rival it for people's attention. That topic is food costs. Both the weather and food are items which affect everyone , so it should not be surprising that these two subjects share the &tinction of being the concern of everyone. Since most people understand little more about ...

To the Editor: In “No such thing as an easy (or EC) fix,” Trussell et al. [1] offer a number of explanations for the recent findings that some studies in which women were offered enhanced (“easy”) access to EC failed to produce a reduction in pregnancy rates. These results are indeed both perplexing and disappointing. However, they in no way indicate that EC “doesn't work” or support the author...

How do you manage, or even think seriously about, profitability in an online business? Traditionally you tracked profitability by product, but in the online world this may simply not be possible. The article looks at why this is so, and how the same factors which create the problem also create new opportunities. Learned Publishing (2002)15, 113–116 Alastair Dryburgh There is no such thing as a ...

The editors have kindly invited me to write an introduction to this special issue devoted to ‘‘hypercomputation’’ despite their perfect awareness of my belief that there is no such subject. In [5], I rather thoroughly debunked the claims of two of the leading proponents of this supposed branch of learning. In this brief introduction I will content myself with some general remarks. The analysis ...