One of the highest accolades a scientist can achieve is to have a paper selected by the Science Citation Index of the Philadelphia Library as the most cited paper of the year. There can be no doubt that the Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations, published by the OECD in 1986, and known as the Blue Book after the color of the cover, is the resource document most frequently cited at the internati...

Over the past twenty years, macroeconomic performance has improved in industrialized and developing countries alike. In a broad cross-section of countries inflation volatility has fallen markedly while output variability has either fallen or risen only slightly. This increased stability can be attributed to either: 1) more efficient policymaking by the monetary authority, 2) a reduction in the ...

626 The importance of everything else James Willis SWINE FLU: PUBLIC HEALTH HAS BECOME A PUBLIC NUISANCE The combination of speculative scaremongering by national health authorities and increasingly absurd directives to GP surgeries in response to the current flu outbreak confirm that public health has become a public nuisance. In July this year health minister Andy Burnham announced that the s...

By the mid-1990s, the ―machinery of death‖ was not only working, but in fact, humming. 2 Year after year, hundreds of additional persons were added to death row, and the number of executions climbed to heights not seen in many decades. 3 In 1994 alone, 315 new death sentences were imposed—a record never exceeded, and matched only once (in 1996), after executions resumed in 1976 following Furman...