It was also a healing center where the tired, meek, ill, disfigured, and diseased could come seek cure for their ailments.
"Many people come seeking cures, for their liver, their kidneys or for cancer," Don Luciano said.
Taxpayers have heavily invested in seeking cures for cancer, the nation's second leading cause of death, behind heart disease, making the disease a hot issue.
Davos created an entire industry from people seeking cures for their ills; 26 tuberculosis sanatoriums were built here at the start of the 20th century.
Jumbie music helped produce a trancelike state in the worshipers who sought cures for ills or the lifting of an obeah (obia) spell, a traditional form of witchcraft.
The United States was instrumental in brokering the deal, working closely with Kenya and Nigeria, despite strong opposition from multinational pharmaceutical companies, which say that dilution of patent protections will discourage them from seeking cures for the diseases that afflict the poor.
The W.A.D.A. president told the scientists that he certainly appreciated the work they were doing, knew that they approached it with single-minded dedication and understood full well that nothing was more important than seeking cures for dread diseases.
The chancellor sees herself, one suspects, as a latter-day philosophe, who seeks cures for society's ills in reason and science.Balancing the bail-outsHer achievements in such areas lag behind her ambitions.
Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships raises funds through venture philanthropy for medical research seeking cures for catastrophic diseases--specifically, blood and bone marrow cancers.
