Spring 2005 Bulletin

The Spring 2005 Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences is now available online in Adobe PDF format. If you are unable to open the file, please download a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader at Adobe.com. Printed copies of the Bulletin are still available. Please send requests to publications@amacad.org.

This issue contains the following features:

1. Calendar of Events
   
   
2. Academy News:

   - Academy Begins Yearlong Celebration of 225th Anniversary

   - William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Awards Academy $3 Million Grant

   - Expanded Support for Academy Research

   - Annual Giving at New Level

   - 2004-2005 Visiting Scholars' Appointments for the Coming Year

   - Emory Joins University Affiliates

3. Stated Meeting Program

   - The Predicament of American Health Care
   Harvey Fineberg

   - Russian Religious Mystics and French Rationalists:
   Mathematics, 1900-1930
   Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor

   - Biodiversity and Our Common Future
   Peter Raven

   - A Bach Cult in Late-Eighteenth-Century Berlin:
   Sara Levy's Musical Salon
   Christoph Wolff

4. James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers
   
   
5. Around the Country
   
   
6. Project Update

   - International Security in the Post-Soviet Space

   - Academy's UBASE Project Featured in IMF Quarterly

   - U.S. Space Program Assessed

7. Noteworthy
   
   
8. From the Archives
   
   

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