My colleagues had thoughtfully put on the wheel where I was supposed to work a very nicely modeled natural man's organs.

We can be heartened by initiatives by government, researchers, health professionals and diverse communities of women to attend thoughtfully and energetically to women's health concerns.

Are Americans specially blessed, or just lucky? Now that the US has at last begun to move, gradually and thoughtfully, away from the passions that characterized the country s response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it is worth asking if Bill Clinton was right to say that America s virtues and assets always prevail against its vices and defects.

In doing this, one has to keep in mind that publishing valuable works of literacy from our heritage and modern literature typically does not pay off in terms of financing, and that it cannot even be imagined without very thoughtfully targeted budgetary funds in this area, just as museums, galleries, theatres and similar institutions of culture would be non existent without the help of the State.