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Calphalon Simply Nonstick 6 Piece Bakeware Set
Large Cake Pan
Medium Loaf Pan
Cookie Sheet
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Calphalon Simply Nonstick 6 Piece Bakeware Set
Weights & Dimensions
Large Cake Pan
Medium Loaf Pan
Cookie Sheet
Additional Weights & Dimensions
|Product Type: Bakeware set
|Color: Dark Grey
|Powder Coated Finish: Yes
|Material: Steel
|Number of Items Included: 6
|Pieces Included: 2- Round 8" cake pan, 9" X 13" Cake Pan; Medium Loaf Pan; 12 Cup Muffin Pan; 10" X 15" cookie sheet
|Non Toxic: Yes
|Warp Resistant: Yes
|Non-Stick Surface: Yes
|Multi-Ply: No
|Enameled: No
|Shape: Rectangular; Round
|Handles: No
|Lid Included: No
|Nesting: Yes
|Number of Muffin Cups: 12
|Stove Safe: No
|Microwave Safe: No
|Dishwasher Safe: Yes
|Freezer Safe: No
|Maximum Temperature: 450 Fahrenheit
|Recipes Included: No
|Commercial Use: Yes
|Eco-Friendly: No
|Product Care: Dishwasher safe however hand washing will help maintain optimal nonstick performance. Use liquid dishwashing detergent and a non-abrasive sponge
|Country of Manufacture: China
|Assembly Required: No
|Additional Parts Required: No
|Product Warranty: 10 Year Limited Warranty
About the ManufacturerFor years, Calphalon cookware has strived "to be the culinary authority in kitchenwares, enhancing the home chef's food experience during planning, prep, cooking, baking, and serving." This statement has encompassed the true essence of Calphalon cookware since it was established in 1963. From it's beginnings in Perrysburg, Ohio, the company has led innovation in the cookware industry, continually introducing new cutting edge technology to the public. Now one of the industry's top brands, Calphalon offers it's customers a variety of cookware in various styles and materials perfect for beginners and expert chefs alike.
Calphalon Simply Nonstick 6 Piece Bakeware Set
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Ronnie from Seattle, WA– Verified Buyer
I have only had the pleasure of using the long roasting pan... I was cooking meat with a sticky glaze and actually wanted to cover with foil just for easier cleanup but discovered that I was out of foil so straight on the sheet they went... Cooked meat was easy to remove and I rinsed it right away in hot water and the sheet was practically clean but I of course went over it with mild soapy water... Will get the chance to use more today as I prepare Thanksgiving dinner...
Great set!
Rachel from Bedford, TX– Verified Buyer
I've really enjoyed baking with this set. Ive recent bought my own house so I have to buy everything to fill my kitchen. I love to cook and bake. This set is a perfect starter kit for the basic baking pans you need.
Great Value
Laura from Duxbury, MA– Verified Buyer
This bakeware set was a great value and is amazing quality. The non stick works great, I don't have to grease any of the pans and everything still comes out clean. Also arrived very quick which was a huge plus!
Celeste from São Paulo,– Verified Buyer
This bakeware set is very useful and easy to clean. Nothing sticks on it! Just water + soap, and voilá!
It's Baking Time!
Jerry from Normal, IL– Verified Buyer
Well I needed a baking set... and it was on sale! I said why not! and having been winning every time I bake! You really can not go wrong with this. Have fun baking!
Bakeware Set
Jordyn from Brownsville, WI– Verified Buyer
I am looking to move into a place on my own and needed supplies. I saw that there was a sale price for the bakeware and it had what I was looking for. They shipped it to me within two days and I was ready to wash and use it!
Good value!
Cara from West Palm Beach, FL– Verified Buyer
I like to bake and these pans are fabulous. They are very sturdy and well made. I use them for everything and clean up is easy thanks to the nonstick.
Nice quality for the price
jb from Woodbury, MN– Verified Buyer
It is always worth while to supplement new bakeware for pieces that have been used frequently. The size of the cookie sheet was just what I needed. The cake pan bakes well and since I use a plastic knife the finish stays unscratched.
Nonstick Works Great!
Thomas from San Francisco, CA– Verified Buyer
I gave the Simply Nonstick Bakeware Set to my sister for her Birthday. She was extremely happy with the bakeware. She especially enjoys the easy cleanup and good quality. The set is true to the description.
Get Baking!
E from Georgia– Verified Buyer
I can't wait for baking season, which is just around the corner! Great quality bakeware set, especially for the price. You're one stop shop is awesome!
OUR SKU # CPH1412Simply Nonstick 6 Piece Bakeware Set is also sometimes listed under the following manufacturer numbers: IB0601A


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Comfort Hotel Diana
San Marco-Calle Specchieri 449
Venice, 30124
Phone: (39) 041 5206911
Fax: (39) 041 5238763
- Free Breakfast
- Free Internet
Welcome to the Comfort Hotel Diana, a Venice hotel near St. Mark's Square
The Comfort Hotel® Diana is situated in the heart of Old Venice, only a few steps from St. Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco). This Venice hotel is strategically located near the city's major tourist attractions, like the Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) gothic palace, the Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) and the famous Caffè Florian, Italy's oldest café.
Be sure to tour the nearby Correr Museum (Museo Correr) and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, a small museum located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni.
Visitors will enjoy golfing and boating in the area. Public beaches, a casino and movie theaters are also nearby. Don't leave Venice without enjoying a gondola ride through the city's waterways. A selection of fine restaurants surrounds the hotel.
Hotel guests will wake up each morning to a delicious free continental breakfast. This Venice hotel provides business travelers with access to copy and fax services.
All standard guest rooms are soundproof and come equipped with hair dryers, mini bars, work desks, safes, air conditioning, direct-dial telephones and cable television. Handicap and non-smoking rooms are provided upon request.
A currency exchange is offered for added guest convenience.
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Oddly Normal
One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms With His Sexuality
A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening guide for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults. Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old son, Joe, was in the hospital following a suicide attempt. Mustering the courage to come out to his classmates, Joe's disclosure--delivered in a tirade about homophobic attitudes--was greeted with unease and confusion by his fellow students. Hours later, he took an overdose of pills. In the aftermath, John and his wife, Jeanne, determined to help Joe feel more comfortable in his own skin, launched a search for services and groups that could help Joe understand that he wasn't alone. This book is Schwartz's very personal attempt to address his family's struggles within a culture that is changing fast, but not fast enough to help gay kids like Joe.--From publisher description.
Publisher: New York : Gotham Books, c2012
Edition: 1st ed
Branch Call Number: 306.76 S399o
Characteristics: xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
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The Oscars are here! We're gearing up for the star-studded night by taking a look back at some of the Academy Awards' most iconic moments. Way back in 1998, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon won their first statues for Good Will Hunting and showed off their excitement in the press room, Adrien Brody laid a big kiss on Halle Berry in 2003, Angelina Jolie's right leg became famous when she posed with Brad Pitt for the 2012 show, and Jennifer Lawrence made the audience gasp when she tripped up the stairs en route to accept her 2013 best actress award for Silver Linings Playbook. And even just last year, millions of hearts swelled when Lupita Nyong'o won best actress for 12 Years a Slave.
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... to our phones.
Anyway - We made it to Paris! We took the ferry over from Dover, England to Calais, France, spent the night in Calais and then drove to Paris today. We did lots of cool stuff in England that didn't make it to our blog yet (like Windsor Castle & Stonehenge). I think Phil is putting together pics while I'm writing this, so I'll just put a few of the kids at the Calais ...
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... commissioned to be built by Napoleon I in the 1820's as a tribute to his armies for there victories. Unfortunately we couldn't climb up it as it was closed today due strike action by the people who work there. But we were able to see the grave of the unknown French warrior who died during WWI and was buried there in 1920 & the eternal flame that was lit on the grave in 1923. Then we drove past the Eiffel Tower again, which is not quite as impressive as it ...
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Tour de France...
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January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining. (352 in leap years)
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The other day I was looking through some haskell code and found a curious little combinator: <$. At first I thought it was
<$>, the infix alias for
fmap. I'm so used to seeing
<$> because I see and write it many times a day. I decided to look it up on the official haddocks to see what was going on. The description is:
Replace all locations in the input with the same value. The default definition is fmap . const, but this may be overridden with a more efficient version.
I know I've read that before and didn't understood it. Locations? What's that supposed to mean? Why would I want to use this? "Whatever, I'll probably never need it," I thought. And so I never ended up using
<$ until now, and that's a real shame. Let's take a closer look at the documentation and the type and see if we can figure out what it means.
The type is
(<$) :: Functor f => a -> f b -> f a
So we only require a
Functor constraint to use it. As Bartosz Milewski notes, Functors are Containers. Remembering this analogy of "Containers" made the "locations" phrasing click for me. A list is a functor, and intuitively, locations in a list are the elements. So let's see what it looks like to replace all locations in the input with the "same value", or the first argument:
Prelude Control.Applicative> 3 <$ [7,8,9]
Ah ha! This makes sense too, looking at the type.
The first argument is of type
a, the second
f b, a container of
b. And that's the last time we see
b. The only thing
Functor provides us is
fmap :: Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b
Given we know nothing about
a and
b, this only lets us apply a function to every "location" in a functor/container. There's no breaking out early, nor adding new elements.
<$ doesn't even take a function, just a single value of
a. It knows nothing about
a and nothing about
f b except how to map over it. It couldn't even return an "empty"
f b because functor doesn't give it the tools to do that. The only thing
<$ can do is replace each location in the functor with the given
a and indeed the only implementation it can have is the one it has,
fmap . const. Pretty cool!
So back to the list example. I guess this could be helpful. You could imagine a list or
Map of items to validate and some condition causing you to replace all values with some invalidated value. Or maybe a list of tests and we want to replace them all with failures. This is a bit of a stretch though. There is a much more useful case...
Haskell parsers tend to be Applicative Functors and are really nice to use so you end up using them a lot. You may be writing an Applicative parser for command line options using optparse-applicative, a parser using attoparsec, or a
FromJSON instance in aeson. In any of these scenarios, if you find yourself parsing some fixed token,
<$ can help!
Let's say we've got the following type:
data Status = Staged | Running | Finished
I've been writing parsers like this for some time:
string :: Text -> Parser Text
parseStatus :: Parser Status
parseStatus = parseStaged <|> parseRunning <|> parseFinished
parseStaged = string "Staged" *> pure Staged
parseRunning = string "Running" *> pure Running
parseFinished = string "Finished" *> pure Finished
Parser is a
Applicative, and
Alternative (which gives us
<|>). This is where its hard to apply the description
<$ of replacing all "locations" in a functor. What are locations in a parser? In this case the type is more illuminating. The
f b in the type is
Parser Text.
f is
Parser, and
b is
Text. We want to throw out the
Text once this parser succeeds and replace it with our token. So we instead can write:
parseStatus :: Parser Status
parseStatus = parseStaged <|> parseRunning <|> parseFinished
parseStaged = Staged <$ string "Staged"
parseRunning = Running <$ string "Running"
parseFinished = Finished <$ string "Finished"
This feels nicer. We no longer have to "lift" the value into the parser with
pure. You can read this as "the result is Staged if I'm given a the string 'Staged'".
This little thought exercise has helped underscore the importance of reasoning with the tools that typeclasses give us. The simpler typeclasses have this great property of being extremely polymorphic, which at once makes them very powerful in their use and very constrained in their implementations.
I've beem coming across a lot of great best practices ever since I've started my first Haskell gig. I'm going to try to post more generally useful things I learn them.
99% of the time when I'm creating a library, I'm going to have the test suite in the same cabal file. Recent versions of cabal are smart and will resolve dependencies within the file first. This is much better than the alternative, which is to copy and maintain the dependencies for the library in the test suite. That becomes a huge maintenance liability for no reason.
Say you have a directory structure like
├── src
│ └── MyPkg.hs
└── test
└── src
└── MyPkgTests.hs
where your library source is in
src and your test source is in
test/src. You would then create a cabal file that looked something like:
name: mypkg
-- snip
hs-source-dirs: src
specific-package >= 1.1 && < 1.2
-- snip
test-suite test
type: exitcode-stdio-1.0
main-is: Main.hs
, specific-package
-- snip
A few things to note:
mypkg and is not explicit about dependencies that will be dragged in by
mypkg. You actually don't even need to include these unless you directly use code from these dependencies in your tests
For the longest time I couldn't figure out how to do this and ended up with really verbose and hard to maintain cabal files. I knew other people did it this way but I never picked up on the
hs-source-dirs clause being the deciding factor until someone on
#haskell pointed it out to me.
In my time learning Haskell and working on various open source projects, I've toyed with using free monads but never really had much success. They sort of clicked with me recently with an idea that I wanted to share.
I will not attempt to explain free monads in detail or the idea that I'm using here. Gabriel Gonzalez did a great job of that in Purify code using free monads. The general idea at play here though is that free monads allow you to represent an AST of a sequential program as a data type and get a monad for free to program in it cleanly using monad do syntax as you would in IO, but get lots of flexibility from it.
Redis is an in-memory key/valu e database with optional persistence. Let's say you had a portion of your program that read and wrote from the redis database in IO. The code with the redis driver would look something like:
foo :: Conn -> IO ()
foo c = do
mv <- get c "foo"
case mv of
Nothing -> return ()
Just v -> multi c $ do
put c "foo1" v
put c "foo2" v
So we see a subset of the redis commands we support:
get :: Conn -> String -> IO (Maybe String): get a value by key from the db
put :: Conn -> String -> String -> IO (): put a value into the db by key.
multi :: Conn -> (IO ()) -> IO (): execute a transaction. Note that you cannot extract a value out of a transaction.
Here's the problem though: this is inconvenient to test. In Haskell, we try to push as much of our program out of IO and into pure functions because they are fast, deterministic, and have referential transparency to boot. To test this, it forces us to go all in and test in IO land. We'd have to run this action with the connection and then take that connection and query the state of the database for the expected data. This isn't really what we are after though when we are testing our program logic. We can probaby trust the vendors of the database and the client to have implemented simple get/put correctly. Or at the very least, we'd like to just have a small handful of integration tests that smoke test the actual database, but it would be great if we could have a battery of unit tests or even property tests against a pure model of what we're doing in the database. That's where the free monad comes in.
We are going to use a free monad to build a very tight set of commands just for interacting with redis. Like in Gabriel's post, I'm going to use the free package for its nice TH helper to reduce boilerplate.
{-# LANGUAGE TemplateHaskell #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveFunctor #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
import Control.Monad.Free
import Control.Monad.Free.TH
data RedisCmd next = Get' String (Maybe String -> next) |
Put' String String next |
Multi' (RedisCmdM ()) next deriving (Functor)
type RedisCmdM = Free RedisCmd
makeFree ''RedisCmd
makeFree will generate downcased versions of the commands,
put', and
get'='s type, for example is =MonadFree RedisCmd m =>
String -> m String. Now let's convert our trivial redis block in IO into one in our RedisCmdM free monad:
foo :: RedisCmdM ()
foo = do
mv <- get' "foo"
case mv of
Nothing -> return ()
Just v -> multi' $ do
put "foo1" v
put "foo2" v
Easy! All we did was postfix all commands with a quote and removed any references to the connection. Now comes the fun part. We can write 3 interpreters for the RedisCmd free monad:
Map String String under the hood. We can run this in the state monad and dissect the resultant state at the end.
import Control.Monad.State
import Control.Monad.Free
import Control.Monad.Free.TH
import Data.Map (Map)
import qualified Data.Map as M
runDebug :: RedisCmdM a -> IO a
runDebug = iterM run
run :: RedisCmd (IO a) -> IO a
run (Get' k f) = do
putStrLn $ unwords ["GET", k]
f . Just =<< getLine
run (Put' k v n) = do
putStrLn $ unwords ["PUT", k, v]
run (Multi' txn n) = do
putStrLn "MULTI"
runDebug txn
putStrLn "EXEC"
type FakeDB = Map String String
runTest :: MonadState FakeDB m => RedisCmdM a -> m a
runTest = iterM run
run (Get' k f) = f =<< gets (M.lookup k)
run (Put' k v n) = do
modify $ M.insert k v
run (Multi' txn n) = do
runTest txn
runRedis :: (MonadState Conn m, MonadIO m) => RedisCmdM a -> m a
runRedis = withConn $ \c -> iterM (run c)
run c (Get' k f) = f =<< get c k
run c (Put' k v n) = put c k v >> n
run c (Multi' txn n) = multi c txn >> n
withConn action = liftIO (action <$> db)
I think this is a really cool use of Free monads. I like this approach a lot more than using the real database because hitting the real database is expensive and requires us to devote work to cleanup. It also means every test, even property tests (which by all rights should be pure) must either rely on a database or you may even end up writing less rigorous tests.
I also think this is a bit more effective than interacting with a mocked out data store like you'd find in Ruby. We still get to observe the affected state of the world but on our own, much simpler terms. We saw the opportunity present itself that the redis database is really just like a map and exploited it to write a simplified backend for testing in very few lines of code. Furthermore, we concentrated all the risky, impure code into a single interpreter which can be applied when the time is right: in integration testing and in the final product.
One potential downside is that it requires you to chunk your operations to redis into contiguous blocks. You can't easily interleave actions hitting other resources. One could make the argument that you probably shouldn't be doing that interleaving in the first place, but there may be situations where it is unavoidable. In those situations, the right approach may be to aggregate these blocks as best you can and then leave it to their respective IO interpreters to do the interleaving
Just a quick announcement. This weekend I did my first FFI project in any language. It was a learning experience. I initially tried to distribute the C code for pHash but oh my god do things get ugly that way. So you'll need to have the phash shared library installed for this to work.
pHash is a perceptual hashing library, which you can use to identify images that are similar. It can also be used to hash audio and video files but I had trouble getting the bindings working there and most people seem to use it mostly for images. Check it out on HackageDB or grab the source on Github.
Not too long ago at work we made the big painful switch of our largest legacy apps from Rails 2 to Rails 3. While there is no shortage of documentation on the pitfalls one may face when doing this, I wanted to bring up one that was particularly insidious.
Some may remember that in Rails 2, eager loading was typically done by passing a
:include option to a finder, specifying the graph of records you'd like to eager load, e.g.
Post.all(:include => [:author, {:comment => :commenter}]). In most cases, this would issue a query to each table involved, first finding
authors whose
id corresponded to the
author_id on the post, then comments, and so-on. The important thing to note is that it would not do a join.
When upgrading and converting from options-in-finder style to the class method chaining style of ActiveRecord 3, it seemed obvious that
.includes() was analogous to
:include. It is not.
As this wonderful article points out, there are actually 4 related methods in rails to eager load:
eager_load, and
includes will do separate queries unless your query is specifying tables and columns explicitly in it, in which case it uses a left outer join. I believe I read in a Rails github issue which I have now lost track of that in Rails 3, this behavior scans your conditions for a '.' character, even if it is against your primary table. We have to be explicit in some of our scopes because they may or may not be used while joining with other tables that have the same column names.
preload always does separate queries,
joins always does inner joins, and
eager_load always does outer joins. Nothing against the Rails team but the tradeoffs and semantics inherant in these different strategies are in no way communicated via their method names. They sound like aliases.
In our particular case, our wholesale conversion from
:include to
includes(), especially when applied to rather lengthy scope chains via search caused a huge hit in query performance. Many of these cases could be returned to their previous speed by preferring to use
preload instead of
includes. This will obviously vary case by case but if your usage of ActiveRecord scopes is not well optimized for left outer joins (which can have pretty poor performance characteristics), be aware of your options and note that while it seems like
includes() is equivalent to
:include, that is not quite the case.


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China news featured the People's Bank of China urging an ease of lending standards, which goes against the grain of a price bubble. No doubt this call for easing came on the heels of an 18% one-month drop in home prices posted Tuesday. At the same time property developers in Guangzhou are offering zero-down payments to attract buyers, in addition to large discounts and tax refund. This won't end well especially given existing "ghost cities."
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Leading market sectors higher Wednesday included: Bonds TLT, +0.11% , Utilities XLU, -0.08% , Gold Miners GDX, -0.43% , Gold GLD, +0.18% , Silver SLV, +0.06% , China FXI, -0.58% , South Korea EWY, -0.62% , Brazil EWZ, +0.87% , Thailand THD, -0.33% , Indonesia IDX, +0.00% , Philippines EPHE, -0.78% , Emerging Markets EEM, -0.34% , Russia RSX, -0.20% , Oil USO, -0.70% , Platinum PPLT, +1.67% , Base Metals DBB, -1.04% and Sugar SGG, +1.00% .
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A mafia is a type of organized crime syndicate whose primary activities are protection racketeering, the arbitration of disputes in criminal markets, and the organizing and oversight of illegal agreements.[1] Secondary activities may be practiced such as drug-trafficking, loan sharking and fraud.
The term was originally applied to the Sicilian Mafia, but has since expanded to encompass other organizations of similar methods and purpose, e.g. "the Russian Mafia", "the Japanese Mafia", or "the Albanian Mafia". The term is applied informally by the press and public; the criminal organizations themselves have their own terms (e.g. the Sicilian and American Mafia call themselves "Cosa Nostra", the Mexican Mafia calls itself La Eme and the "Japanese Mafia" calls itself yakuza).
When used alone and without any qualifier, "Mafia" typically refers to either the Sicilian Mafia or the Italian-American Mafia.
The Italian term "Mafia" (sometimes spelled "Maffia" in early texts) was created in Sicily, but there are several theories about its origin. That area of Southern Italy, in fact, was an Islamic emirate (the Emirate of Sicily) between 827 and 1091. Therefore, the Sicilian adjective mafiusu (in Italian: mafioso) may derive from the slang Arabic term mahyas (مهياص), meaning "aggressive boasting, bragging", or marfud (مرفوض) meaning "rejected". In reference to a man, mafiusu in 19th century Sicily was ambiguous, signifying a bully, arrogant but also fearless, enterprising, and proud, according to scholar Diego Gambetta.[2] In reference to a woman, however, the feminine-form adjective "mafiusa" means beautiful and attractive.
Other possible origins from Arabic:
- maha = quarry, cave;[3] especially the mafie caves in the region of Marsala, which acted as hiding places for persecuted Muslims and later served other types of refugees.[4]
- mu'afa = safety, protection[3]
- Ma àfir = the name of an Arab tribe[5] that ruled Palermo.[6] The local peasants imitated these Arabs and as a result the tribes name entered the popular lexicon. The word mafia was used to refer to the defenders of Palermo during the Sicilian Vespers.[7]
The public's association of the word with the criminal secret society was perhaps inspired by the 1863 play "I mafiusi di la Vicaria" ("The Mafiosi of the Vicaria") by Giuseppe Rizzotto and Gaetano Mosca. The words Mafia and mafiusi are never mentioned in the play; they were probably put in the title to add a local flair. The play is about a Palermo prison gang with traits similar to the Mafia: a boss, an initiation ritual, and talk of "umirtà" (omertà or code of silence) and "pizzu" (a codeword for extortion money).[8] The play had great success throughout Italy. Soon after, the use of the term "mafia" began appearing in the Italian state's early reports on the phenomenon. The word made its first official appearance in 1865 in a report by the prefect of Palermo, Filippo Antonio Gualterio.[9]
According to legend, the word Mafia was first used in the Sicilian revolt – the Sicilian Vespers – against rule of the Capetian House of Anjou on 30 March 1282. In this legend, Mafia is the acronym for "Morte Alla Francia, Italia Avanti" (Italian for "Death to France, Italy Forward!"), or "Morte Alla Francia, Italia Anela" (Italian for "Death to France, Italy Begs!").[10] However, this version is now discarded by most serious historians.[2]
A formal definition of "mafia" can be hard to come by. The term was never officially used by Sicilian mafiosi, who prefer to refer to their organization as "Cosa Nostra". Nevertheless, it is typically by comparison to the Sicilian Mafia that other criminal groups earn the label. The expansion of the term has not been welcomed by all scholars. Giovanni Falcone, an anti-Mafia judge murdered by the Sicilian Mafia in 1992, objected to the conflation of the term "Mafia" with organized crime in general:
While there was a time when people were reluctant to pronounce the word "Mafia" ... nowadays people have gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become an overused term ... I am no longer willing to accept the habit of speaking of the Mafia in descriptive and all-inclusive terms that make it possible to stack up phenomena that are indeed related to the field of organized crime but that have little or nothing in common with the Mafia.[11]—Giovanni Falcone, 1990
Mafias as private protection firms[edit]
Scholars such as Diego Gambetta[12] and Leopoldo Franchetti have characterized the Sicilian Mafia as a "cartel of private protection firms", whose primary business is protection racketeering: they use their fearsome reputation for violence to deter people from swindling, robbing, or competing with those who pay them for protection. For many businessmen in Sicily, they provide an essential service when they cannot rely on the police and judiciary to enforce their contracts and protect their properties from thieves (this is often because they are engaged in black market deals). Scholars have observed that many other societies around the world have criminal organizations of their own that provide essentially the same protection service through similar methods.
For instance, in Russia after the collapse of Communism, the state security system had all but collapsed, forcing businessmen to hire criminal gangs to enforce their contracts and protect their properties from thieves. These gangs are popularly called "the Russian Mafia" by foreigners, but they prefer to go by the term "krysha".
With the [Russian] state in collapse and the security forces overwhelmed and unable to police contract law, cooperating with the criminal culture was the only option [...] most businessmen had to find themselves a reliable krysha under the leadership of an effective vor.—excerpt from McMafia by Misha Glenny.[13]
Mafia-type organizations under Italian law[edit]
In Italy, the term associazione di tipo Mafioso ("Mafia-type organisation") is used to clearly distinguish the uniquely Sicilian Mafia from other criminal organisations that are structured like the Sicilian Mafia, such as the Camorra, the 'Ndrangheta and the Sacra Corona Unita.[14] Article 416-bis of the Italian Penal Code, under which all criminal organisations are prosecuted, defines an association as being of Mafia-type nature "when those belonging to the association exploit the potential for intimidation which their membership gives them, and the compliance and omertà which membership entails and which lead to the committing of crimes, the direct or indirect assumption of management or control of financial activities, concessions, permissions, enterprises and public services for the purpose of deriving profit or wrongful advantages for themselves or others."[15][16]
Mafia-proper can refer to either:
Other Italian criminal organizations include:
- Camorra, operating in the region of Campania
- 'Ndrangheta in Calabria
- Sacra Corona Unita in Apulia
- Stidda in Sicily
Other countries[edit]
- Aboriginal-based organized crime
- African-American gangs, such as Gangster Disciples, Crips and Bloods
- Albanian mafia
- Armenian mafia
- Aryan Brotherhood
- Asian-American gangs, such as Born To Kill, Tiny Rascal gang, Menace of Destruction and Sons of Samoa
- Azeri mafia
- Brazilian criminal organizations, such as Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho
- British crime firms
- Bulgarian mafia
- Cape Verdean organized crime
- Chaldean mafia
- Chechen mafia
- Colombian neo-paramilitary organized crime, such as The Office of Envigado, Los Rastrojos and Los Urabenos
- Corsican mafia
- Cuban mafia
- Dixie Mafia
- Dutch Penose
- Dutch Antillean organized crime
- French Milieu, such as the Hornec gang
- Georgian mafia
- Greek mafia
- Hispanic-American gangs, such as Latin Kings, Ñetas, Trinitarios and Mara Salvatrucha
- Indian mafia
- Irish Mob
- Israeli mafia
- Kkangpae
- Lebanese mafia
- Mexican cartels
- Mexican-American prison gangs, such as Mexican Mafia, Nuestra Familia and Texas Syndicate
- Moluccan Kajahatan
- Moroccan organized crime
- Nigerian mafia
- Odessa mafia
- Outlaw motorcycle gangs, such as the Hells Angels MC, Outlaws MC, Bandidos MC and Pagans MC
- Pakistani mafia
- Québécois organized crime, such as the Dubois gang[17]
- Russian mafia, such as Solntsevskaya Bratva
- Serbian mafia
- The Company
- Tongs
- Triads[18]
- Turkish, Cypriot-Turkish and Kurdish mafia
- Yakuza
- Yardies
- Zoe Pound
- ^ Gambetta. Codes of the Underworld"
- ^ a b This etymology is based on the books Mafioso by Gaia Servadio; The Sicilian Mafia by Diego Gambetta; and Cosa Nostra by John Dickie (see Books below).
- ^ a b Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia. pp. 259-261.
- ^ Henner Hess (1998). Mafia & Mafiosi: Origin, Power and Myth. NYU Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9781863331432.
- ^ John Follain (8 Jun 2009). The Last Godfathers. Hachette UK. ISBN 9781848942493.
Even the origin of the word 'mafia' remains obscure. Some believe its roots lie in the Arab domination of Sicily from 827 to 1061 and the Arabic word mahias (daring) or Ma àfir (the name of a Saracen tribe).
- ^ Henner Hess (1998). Mafia & Mafiosi: Origin, Power and Myth. NYU Press. p. 1. ISBN 9781863331432.
- ^ Richard Lindberg (1 Aug 1998). To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal, 1855-1960 (illustrated ed.). SIU Press. p. 161. ISBN 9780809322237.
The word "Mafia" is a derivative of the Arabic maafir, the name of a tribe of Arabs who settled in Palermo, Sicily before the Middle Ages. The Sicilian peasants adopted the customs of the nomadic tribe, integrating the name into everyday language. When the French were massacred in Palermo on Easter Sunday, 1282, the townsmen described their brave defenders as the "Mafia." In 1417 this secret band of guerrillas absorbed another society of local origin, the Camorra.
- ^ Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia, p. 136.
- ^ Lupo, The History of the Mafia, p. 3.
- ^ Hess, Mafia & Mafiosi, pp. 2-3.
- ^ Lupo, History of the Mafia, pp. 1–2
- ^ Diego Gambetta (1993). The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection
- ^ Glenny, Misha (2008). McMafia: A Journal Through the Global Criminal Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 55. ISBN 978-1-4000-4411-5.
- ^ Mafia and Mafia-type organizations in Italy, by Umberto Santino, in: Albanese, Das & Verma, Organized Crime. World Perspectives, pp. 82-100
- ^ Seindal, Mafia: money and politics in Sicily, p. 20
- ^ Art. 416-bis, codice penale - Associazione di tipo mafioso
- ^ http://www.oocities.org/wiseguywally/DuboisGang.html
- ^ Wang, Peng (2013). "The rise of the Red Mafia in China: a case study of organised crime and corruption in Chongqing". Trends in Organized Crime 16 (1): 49–73. doi:10.1007/s12117-012-9179-8.
- Albanese, Jay S., Dilip K. Das & Arvind Verma, (eds.) (2003). Organized Crime. World Perspectives, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 9780130481993
- Dickie, John (2007). Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, Hodder. ISBN 978-0-340-93526-2
- Gambetta, Diego (1993). The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection. London: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80742-1
- Hess, Henner (1998). Mafia & Mafiosi: Origin, Power, and Myth, London: Hurst & Co Publishers, ISBN 1-85065-500-6
- Mosca, Gaetano (2014). "What is Mafia." M&J, 2014. Translation of the book "Cosa è la Mafia," Giornale degli Economisti, Luglio 1901, pp. 236–62. ISBN 979-11-85666-00-6
- Paoli, Letizia (2003). Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-515724-9
- Seindal, René (1998). Mafia: money and politics in Sicily, 1950-1997, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, ISBN 87-7289-455-5
- Servadio, Gaia (1976), Mafioso. A history of the Mafia from its origins to the present day, London: Secker & Warburg ISBN 0-436-44700-2


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The emerging fight over the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, which Senator John McCain has promised to bring up right after George W. Bush's installation as President, has little, if anything, to do with real reform. Rather, this is primarily an intraparty scrap over who will define the early days of Bush's term--Bush and Senate Republican leaders or the maverick McCain with Democrats in tow--and who will determine the new parameters of "bipartisanship." McCain needs sixty votes to stop the traditional filibuster by Republican leaders Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell, and with the turnover in the Senate, the Democratic gain of four seats and the conversion of Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran to the cause, McCain may now have them. But the Republicans may well try, with the witting or unwitting help of a few Democrats, to pass a toad and call it a prince.
The McCain-Feingold bill would do some worthwhile things. It would end the flow of unregulated soft money into national party coffers, codify the Supreme Court's Beck decision pertaining to the use of union dues for political purposes (which organized labor accepts, since it affects only a small number of nonunion members--those who pay dues for certain services and will be allowed to opt out of paying the portion spent on politics) and would possibly include a friendly provision offered by moderate Republicans to restrict how corporations and unions can spend money on political ads aired during the final months of election campaigns. Some Republicans may favor the bill because the Democratic Party is now almost even in the soft-money race. But nothing in it would end the money chase that keeps many good people from running for office; nor would it put a real dent in the process of influence-peddling that defines day-to-day life in Washington. Even at an estimated $457 million in 2000, soft money, the subject of so many New York Times editorials, amounted to only about 16 percent of the roughly $3 billion raised for this year's national auctions--ahem--elections. That's a big jump over the $265 million in soft money raised in 1996 but not much of a change compared with the $2.2 billion raised overall that year.
Feingold is a decent man who courageously called on his own party last summer at its Los Angeles convention to stop unilaterally the outrageous fundraising that goes on at those events. He understands the limits of his bill and is on record firmly supporting full public financing of campaigns, as is now done in Clean Elections states like Maine, Arizona, Vermont and (starting this spring) Massachusetts. McCain, on the other hand, is an excitable right-winger who has ridden the finance issue to unexpected stature. He's a far from reliable ally of reform groups, who are hungry to make some headway against the growing corruption of the electoral process by big money. And there lies the danger.
In order to pass a bill that Bush might sign, McCain has signaled that he may accept, in exchange for a soft-money ban, amendments that would allow an increase, possibly even a tripling, of the limits on hard money an individual may donate. Lots of incumbents--Democrats and Republicans alike--secretly like this devil's bargain, because they think it would make it easier to raise the hard dollars they so desperately need for their campaigns. They also argue, irrelevantly, that inflation has reduced the value of a $1,000 contribution, the limit set in 1974, to $300. The Supreme Court disposed of this argument a year ago, in Nixon v. Shrink, when it upheld even lower limits as a way to prevent electoral corruption, pointedly stating that "the dictates of the First Amendment are not mere functions of the Consumer Price Index."
An increase in the hard-money limits would certainly encourage "buy-partisanship"--the process by which wealthy donors buy one party and get the other free. Fewer than 121,000 people gave $1,000 or more to a winning federal candidate in the 2000 elections, less than 0.05 percent of the population. Tripling the amount they could give would further empower this narrow slice of America, which is disproportionately wealthy, white and male. It could also increase the gap between the business and labor contributions to a whopping billion dollars. Two leading reform groups, Public Campaign and US PIRG, are against any such trade-off, but others, like the business-driven Committee for Economic Development, are for it, with Common Cause somewhere in between. Labor and civil rights groups, their attention focused on Bush's Cabinet nominees, should take heed. The passage of a straightforward soft-money ban would be a good thing--and we'd like to see Congress look seriously at the Clean Election reforms taking root in the states. But this new Congress may try to pass a bad bill, call it reform and hope no one hears the protests.
Mandate or no, George W. Bush is forging ahead with Cabinet appointments, policy forums and talk of a "first 100 days." Bush and his team have assembled a Cabinet faster than any administration since Richard Nixon's, and before Bush takes the oath of office on January 20 they'll have laid the groundwork for passage of an agenda that closely resembles the worst-case scenario painted by Bush critics during the 2000 campaign.
Bush's appointments to the EPA, Interior and Energy look ready to lead a furious offensive against environmental regulation and common sense. His appointments to Labor and Justice promise an assault on choice, civil rights and worker rights. His heralded national security team looks resolutely backward to a cold war that isn't, and seems oblivious to the world as it is. No wonder the Reagan cinematic fantasy--Star Wars, missile defense--is paraded as an early priority.
Post-mortems and recriminations must now give way to action, beginning with a flood of e-mails, telegrams and letters of protest to the Capitol Hill offices not just of Republicans but of wavering Democrats who have the power to brake the Bush bandwagon. This is no time for bipartisan blather. "Those who are with the civil rights agenda must not choose collegiality over civil rights and social justice," says the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Democratic members of Congress need to know that they cannot expect the core of their party--women, minorities, workers--to turn out on Election Day only to have their interests abandoned the day after, and that those who surrender in this fight will not be forgotten and not be forgiven. We must make it clear that we are not prepared to refight the battles of the last decades on basic human rights. We are not prepared to surrender to another era of race-bait politics, or to send poor women back to the alleys for abortions, or to lay waste our environment in the interest of big oil.
The frontline troops of this movement are already mobilizing. Civil rights groups and others will take to the streets of Washington starting on January 15, Martin Luther King Day, and continuing through the Inauguration; they will raise necessary questions about the legitimacy of Bush's election and press for voting reforms that guarantee more representative results in the future. The AFL-CIO has pledged to oppose archconservative John Ashcroft's nomination for Attorney General, as have People for the American Way and the Black Leadership Forum (see comments on Ashcroft on pages 4 and 5). Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League have joined that challenge while also promising to oppose Health and Human Services Department nominee Tommy Thompson, who presided over a severe curtailment of access to reproductive rights as governor of Wisconsin.
But the real work must go on at the grassroots--starting now and continuing up to and including the 2002 elections. (For more information on protests and ways to get involved, go to Counter-Inaugural Calendar at www.thenation.com). It is only by exerting constant upward pressure that we can explode the myth of bipartisanship and prevent the Bush presidency from rolling over the will of the great majority of Americans.
Congress cannot salute Dr. King's dream and then go on to pass the dream-busting Bush agenda. Beginning with the Bush nominations, every lawmaker on Capitol Hill must be challenged to stand up, as Dr. King did, for justice.
Who are George Bush's bipartisan Democrats?
A cold snowy start to the new year, the first day of the new millennium. Not the fun one with champagne at the Pyramids and the all-night, round-the-globe pseudoprofundities and the secret letdown when our computers didn't turn into pumpkins at midnight. I mean the real millennium, with the bad news bears basking on their ice floes as the stock market sinks and thousands tremble as The Anxious Consumer ponders whether to spring for the new Chevrolet Astro or live with the old Dodge Caravan a bit longer. On the radio a mom explained that her kids just wanted gift certificates for Christmas so they could take advantage of the post-holiday sales. How old are these kids? 50? This morning, same station, a man from the Cato Institute instructs us to count our blessings: We are all a lot better off than a hundred years ago; after all, Americans are two inches taller now.
On New Year's Day, a stern young black man missing his front teeth preaches on the subway: "Mr. Black Man! Mr. White Man! What is the meaning of Eternity? Repent! Repent!" He stalks the aisle, dressed all in black and carrying a blood-red Bible, like a mad priest in an opera, while passengers stare stonily into the headlines: I'm Sacking Satan, declares ex-Jet Marc Gastineau in the New York Post, once again evading jail for beating his wife, who like him has gone into Christian therapy ("'I contributed to a lot of the violence,' said the slight, 5-foot-5 woman"). In the passageway between stations, a tiny man of unguessable age wearing a filthy Ralph Lauren American Flag sweater plays a violin as if it were an unfamiliar object he had found in the trash; a young black man sings Beatles songs expertly and with unflagging good cheer. The Christmas-caroling street minister with the fantastic baritone voice is gone, but the Chinese musician is still seated on the L train platform, bending in total concentration over his pipa, an elegant longnecked stringed instrument that emits at the touch of his bow a thin wail, like a dying cat.
My father turns 81 in his hospital bed. After three brain surgeries, who knows what he understands? Flowers arrive that he does not look at; cards are read that he does not listen to. Friends arrive with "get well" offerings--a sleep mask, earplugs, pictures of their children--and leave quickly, stricken. Newly arrived from England, a Kazakh friend complains, "They won't move him to the other bed, although I keep asking!" It seems that bed is the lucky one, the one where the patients get better. A staggering amount of medical help and equipment swirls around my father; it is as though experts have been summoned from all over the world--a doctor from Korea, nurses from the Philippines and Ireland, aides from Jamaica and Guyana and India and Central America--all for the express purpose of tending a few limp, pale Americans. And yet the simplest realities--that my father has eaten essentially nothing for almost two weeks--seem to evoke no sense of urgency, to fall into the spaces between specialists and between changing shifts.
In Man's Fate, the Russian Communist Katov prepares himself to be thrown alive into a furnace after the Shanghai rebellion he helped organize is betrayed by Stalin. He says to himself, "Let's suppose I died in a fire." What style, I thought as a teenager, what cool. Today I think: Well, it would be scary and painful, but at least it would be quick. And by dying in 1927, Katov got to keep his political dignity: He didn't have to persuade himself that voting for a protest candidate was a radical act or inveigh against "global capitalism," or "corporate capitalism," as if there were some other kind--national capitalism? mom-and-pop capitalism?--that could be brought out of the closet of history, and donned like a comfy old suit.
I had planned a very different column--upbeat and energetic, with exhortations to do more and a list of clever resolutions. I e-mailed my whole address book asking for suggestions for feminist activism. I don't know what I was hoping for--seize the TV stations? Dangle John Ashcroft off a skyscraper till he promises to spend the rest of his life cleaning abortion clinic toilets? Raise a lesbian militia to fight the Taliban? What came in was nothing like that. Write letters, the activists said, make phone calls, raise money, bother your politicians, volunteer. Challenge the sexism of daily life, the writers wrote: racist and sexist remarks, panels with no women, all-male magazine forums and debates. Link issue A with issue B, the academics urged.
Fine, but according to Newsweek, there are now 1 million slaves in America, mostly women and girls--cleaning houses, making clothes, servicing men sexually to pay off traffickers and pimps. Ask yourself what kind of man would fuck a slave, some Chinese or Albanian or Thai teenager in a plywood cubicle with a mattress on the floor. Do you think he cares if you write a letter to your congressman? Maybe he is your congressman.
The world spins only forward, says Prior Walter in Angels in America. But which way is that? Most members of my study group think intellectuals and activists have no special role to play in history. They only perch atop its shifting tectonic plates, ready to jump on the backs of the workers at the first sign of autonomous action. "The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing," quotes the Last Marxist at least once per meeting, which goes on all day and ends with a wonderful meal. Last time, we invited the Race Traitors--Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey, Beth Henson--and accused them of daring to think they could spark a movement with a magazine and a book. Wow, said Noel, you guys are really depressed. Yes, I said, usually it takes us all day to feel this irrelevant, and it isn't even lunchtime yet.
I go home in the snow, I e-mail the President to save the Alaskan wilderness, proving yet again that I have no dignity and do not read my own columns. At bedtime we read aloud from Mona in the Promised Land, by my daughter's favorite contemporary American writer, Gish Jen.
"If there's a depression, will we have enough money?" Sophie asks as we turn out the light. "Don't worry about it," I say. "Everything will be fine. We can always sing in the subway."
If the absence of soldiers seizing cable networks is the ultimate standard of meaningful democratic empowerment, we're not doing half bad.
Bush v. Gore is a fitting start to the next four deranged years.
Bill Clinton is moving to install Terry McAuliffe as the head of the DNC, a cynical move in this day of pay-to-play politics.
Bush v. Gore may have superficially resolved a short-run political crisis, but it has triggered a deep intellectual crisis.
We shall see very little of the charmingly simian George W. Bush—the military—Cheney, Powell et al.--will be calling the tune, and the whole nation will be on constant alert.


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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.Physician, researcher, and award-winning science
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year's top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields.
Quicklet on Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer: Chapter-By-Chapter Commentary & SummaryABOUT THE BOOK The Emperor of All Maladies not only describes the nature and biology of cancer, it discusses a topic most readers care just as much, if not more about: The possibility of a cure. For close to a century, doctors have been hoping for and working on creating a magic bullet, a single approach or wonder drug that will completely end the war on cancer. Mukherjees book demonstrates that
LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGYWerner Maas is Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. Since his student days in 1941 he has been involved in the development of the new science of molecular genetics. His main contributions have been in the discovery of regulatory genes that are essential for the proper functioning of all genes in the maintenance of living cells. In 1955 he discovered that
The Impact Of Thalidomide And Its Revival As A Vital MedicineIn this riveting medical detective story, Trent Stephens and Rock Brynner recount the history of thalidomide, from the epidemic of birth defects in the 1960's to the present day, as scientists work to create and test an alternative drug that captures thalidomide's curative properties without its cruel side effects. A parable about compassion-and the absence of it-Dark Remedy is a gripping account
Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNAThe story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful optimism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.
Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat CancerIn 1961, twenty-eight-year-old Dr. Judah Folkman saw something while doing medical research in a United States navy lab that gave him the first glimmering of a wild, inspired hunch. What if cancerous tumors, in order to expand, needed to trigger the growth of new blood vessels to feed themselves? And if that was true, what if a way could be found to stop that growth? Could cancers be starved to
Laughing Gas Viagra and Lipitor : The Human Stories behind the Drugs We UseThe stories behind drug discovery are fascinating full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated them. History is replete with examples of breakthrough medicines that have saved millions of lives. Ether as an anesthetic by Morton; penicillin as an antibiotic by
Nearly half of all Americans will be diagnosed with an invasive cancer—an all-too ordinary aspect of daily life. Through a powerful combination of cultural analysis and memoir, this stunningly original book explores why cancer remains so confounding, despite the billions of dollars spent in the search for a cure. Amidst furious debates over its causes and treatments, scientists generate reams of
Inside the Human Genome ProjectDrawing the Map of Life is the dramatic story of the Human Genome Project from its origins, through the race to order the 3 billion subunits of DNA, to the surprises emerging as scientists seek to exploit the molecule of heredity. It's the first account to deal in depth with the intellectual roots of the project, the motivations that drove it, and the hype that often masked genuine triumphs
Human Anatomy and Physiology Practice Questions: Human Genetics
Human Anatomy and Physiology (Book #41)This is a collection of multiple choice, short answer, and problems on human genetics. Topics covered include terminology, dominant-recessive inheritance, incomplete dominance, multiple-allele inheritance, complex inheritance, sex-linked inheritance, and genetic abnormalities. These questions are suitable for students enrolled in a first year undergraduate course in Human Anatomy and Physiology or


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Enzo Ferrari at a press conference in 1975
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