In the early months of the COVID pandemic, friends of Stephen Sondheim orchestrated an online party to celebrate the Broadway great's 90th birthday. The star-studded event almost went off without one Tony Award-winner, who ended up advocating for herself with an online posting: "This is very...
July 28, 1980– Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach appear on the syndicated talk show,The John Davidson Show. Starr is obviously drunk– snapping Poloroids, slurring his words, taking the prepared questions out of host Davidson’s hands, and just being generally surly and uncommunicative. Starr’s ...
Industrial Restructuring and Urban Change in the Pittsburgh Region: Developmental, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Trade-offs This article traces the steel industry#039;s restructuring during the 1980s and its consequences for older industrial regions tied historically to steel pr... W Haller - 《Ecolog...
The isotopes study of geothermal water in Guanzhong area was conducted in more than a decade time from the end of the 1980s to the beginning of the 21st century. After analyzing the changes of hydrogen-oxygen stable isotopes in meteoric water of Shaanxi province, Zhang (1989) conducted a ...
As a young, hospital-based physical therapist in the early 1970s, I vividly recall a middle-aged patient who had undergone a radical mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer. Her chest was sunken and hollow following removal of the pectoral muscles, overlying skin, and supraclavicular lymph node...
Cancers are heterogeneous multifactorial diseases consisting of a major public health issue worldwide. Sex disparities are evidenced in cancer incidence, mortality, expression of prognosis factor, response to treatment, and survival. For both sexes, an i
1 According to estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019,2 cancer is the first or second leading cause of death before the age of 70 years in 112 of 183 countries and ranks third or fourth in a further 23 countries (Fig. 1). Cancer's rising prominence as a leading ...
establishing their own environmental public interest litigation systems in the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in significant social and environmental benefits. This progress notably surpassed China’s environmental public interest litigation system. This section will primarily focus on the development of the env...
The nexus of COVID-19 and environment is conspicuously deep-rooted. The roles of environmental factors in the origin, transmission and spread of COVID-19 and the mutual impact of the pandemic on the global environment have been the two perspectives to view this nexus. The present paper attempt...
According to Haraway, how do we define the cyborg in science fiction? 2. How might we apply Haraway's key criteria to the hybrid characters – the creature in Frankenstein, the Beast Men in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and Dren in Splice? 3. How useful or not are these ...