He saw each new human being as an emergent brain and soul, not merely a mouth to feed.

FORBES: The Upside Of Optimism

In October 2010, an international symposium on urban futures and human and urban well-being elaborated plans for a new three-year initiative to promote sustainable urban development and improve the relationship between cities and the ecosystems of which they are a part.

UNESCO: Urban connections of biosphere reserves

This is precisely why CI has adopted a new mission to demonstrate that biodiversity and healthy ecosystems are essential to human well-being, and why we are taking on the task of demonstrating this in a series of core countries, large and small, highly degraded and still largely intact, with both high and low levels of capacity and political commitment to creating Healthy Sustainable Economies.

FORBES: Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises, Part Five

The software both Celera and the HGP ran on their supercomputers relied on new genes being similar either to known human genes or to genes found in animal genomes (like those of the mouse), Velculescu says.

FORBES: Gene Mappers May Have Missed Half The Genes

Rosenthal as he was known to untold millions who admired his handiwork at the New York Times, in his syndicated column and in his last years as a columnist for the New York Daily News was a truly extraordinary human being.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Abraham Rosenthal, R.I.P.

But Gillison, 44, a professor at Ohio State University, was among the first researchers to make a startling realization: The old cigarettes-and-alcohol form of the disease was being eclipsed by a new form, caused by the same human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer.

FORBES: Health

The rejection of investment and of Western approaches to human rights was certainly not in step with the New Partnership for African Development (Nepad) being championed by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa.

BBC: Namibia