There is only one U.S. president who is also a patentee. One might guess that the president is Thomas Jefferson, who invented many things and considered himself to be an inventor. Or, we might guess George Washington whose work as a surveyor and planter, not to mention commander-in-chief of the ...

Background In 2006, RJ Reynolds began test-marketing Camel Snus, a new smokeless tobacco (SLT) product. Promotion included use of a brand website, a relatively new marketing channel used by tobacco companies, which allowed visitors to learn about the product and discuss it with others on the website's message board. Our ...

Focusing on several message features that are prominent in antismoking campaign literature, this content-analytic study examines 934 antismoking video clips on YouTube for the following characteristics: message sensation value (MSV) and three types of message appeal (threat, social and humor). These four characteristics are then linked to YouTube's interactive audience ...

This article first examines the ways in which coca leaf acquired an important symbolic value in forging a counter-hegemonic discourse that wove together various strands of class and cultural identity struggles in the Chapare province, Bolivia. The second line of enquiry that runs through this article deals with the conflicts ...

In this edition, we are privileged to have interviewed the current presidents of the National Medical Association (NMA), founded in 1895, and the American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847. Drs. Carolyn Britton of the NMA and Nancy Nielsen of the AMA are the 109th and 163rd presidents of their ...

The president-elect sent strong signals that he's serious about reform, with some key appointments last week. The move drew applause from industry executives, including one who said the system is now set on a crash course. "There's no guarantee that someone is going to be able to put Humpty Dumpty ...

Presented at the “Can Forests Meet Our Energy Needs? The Future of Forest Biomass in Colorado” Conference, February 21, 2008, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Carl Spaulding has been working in the timber industry for nearly 50 years. He is founding member, Past President, and is the current President ...

The Joint Commission named Mark Chassin as its new president last week. He will take the reins from Dennis O'Leary on Jan. 1. John Toussaint, left, president of ThedaCare in Appleton, Wis., says Chassin has his work cut out for him at the Joint Commission. "The idea of compliance with ...

Kunkel and Dennis (2003) established a framework for the examination of contemporary eulogia drawn from the comforting and social support paradigms found in psychology and communication literatures. Dennis and Kunkel (2004) applied the framework to eulogies for fallen national heroes (e.g., victims of terrorism and space shuttle astronauts) delivered by ...

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is fortunate to have a wonderful collection of portraits, which date from William Cheselden's portrait in the mid 18th century to the latest of immediate past president, Kingsley Faulkner. Many of the portraits are of former College presidents. The presidents have often been painted ...

On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments of 1965 into law. With his signature he created Medicare and Medicaid, which became two of America's most enduring social programs. The signing ceremony took place in Independence, Missouri, in the presence of former President Harry S. ...

This paper focuses on Dr. Ian Coulter's accomplishments from the time he became Executive Vice-President of CMCC in 1981, until he ended his presidency with a year's administrative leave in 1990. Annual planning initiatives, pedagogy, scholarship, conflicts, and the quest for university affiliation are discussed as well as his legacy ...

The discourse of contemporary country music creates a world permeated with religion and centered on the notion of salvific love. This form of salvation arises in the connection between people (or between people and God) and includes elements of sacrifice and transformation. Although highly conventional, country music must meet standards ...

Ralph A. Giannella will become the 93rd president of the American Gastroenterological Association during Digestive Disease Week in May 1999. His path to the presidency has been illuminated by a distinguished career as an educator, researcher, clinician, and administrator. He will bring to the presidency the energy, dedication, critical analysis ...

On 21 July, Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior took office as President of the Royal Society of Medicine. He qualified mrcvs from Edinburgh in 1948 and held lectureships in Bristol and Cambridge before appointment as Professor of Parasitology in the University of Pennsylvania in 1964. There he stayed for fourteen ...

If the president of the United States must decide within minutes how to respond to a dire emergency, its citizens expect him or her to be mentally competent and to act wisely. Because the presidency of the United States is now the world's most powerful office, should its incumbent become ...

The CMA's past presidents have donated a plaque and refurbished the headstone and plot at the Halifax gravesite of Sir Charles Tupper, the association's first president. "Sir Charles Tupper was a very significant personality in the conception of a national medical association and the past presidents wanted that fact to ...

Cofounder and former chairman of the board of Apple Computer Steven Jobs looks beyond the 1980s image of a petulant, embittered young man, fighting with all who failed to share his vision, and many who did. Today, as a founder, president and chairman of NeXT, Inc., he looks to more ...

If healthcare finance executives were the only ones who could vote for president, George Bush would be sleeping peacefully, knowing that he would remain in the White House for another four years. In a mock election conducted by Zimmerman & Associates, 83% of hospital finance executives voted for the incumbent, ...

Copy of memorandum to President Roosevelt from Marvin MacIntyre suggesting that the President might find it interesting to meet with Gene Vidal because Vidal had been in close contact with the Earhart story and had some interesting speculations, July 20, 1937 [photocopy]