Earlier this year, Banchereau received the Dana Foundation–American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Award in Human Immunology Research for his innovative studies on treatments for maladies such as lupus, juvenile arthritis, and cancer. In collaborative efforts, he has pinpointed cytokines that underlie disease. He's found, for example, that interferon (IFN)-␣ drives autoimmunity in lupus (1)...

Jean-Jacques Laffont, economist extraordinaire and visionary founder of the Institut de l’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) in Toulouse, died at his home in Colomiers on May 1 after a valiant battle against cancer. He was fifty-seven years old. Laffont is remarkable for having had three distinct professional identities and for performing at the very highest level in all of them. First, he was one of...

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jean-jacques rousseau, écrivain illustre et philosophe révolutionnaire de l’âge des lumières, a recouru pendant les dernières années de sa vie à l’écriture des ouvrages autobiographiques. il y refléta le véritable portrait de soi-même grâce à une mémoire encombrée de souvenirs tumultueux. son œuvre autobiographique qui comprend les confessions, les dialogues et les rêveries du promeneur solitai...

Abstract Review article on Jacques Berlinerblau's Secularism: the Basics .