Risk and safety are polyvalent concepts with numerous and overlapping ethical complexities in relation to science and technology. As such they are dealt with in a number of different entries. In technical terms, scientific phenomena may ex...

As people become increasingly dependent on the use of engineered products, product safety and liability become issues of worldwide importance. In many countries, however, there are no strong traditions promoting safety standards in the t...

SAGAS are long prose narratives in Old Norse written primarily in Iceland between approximately 1180 and 1500. They are generally categorized by their subject matter. The kinds of sagas important for the study of Norse paganism are the kin...

Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red is a saga on the Norse exploration of North-America....

Robert Sage, journalist, editor, and translator, worked in the Paris,Vienna, Rome, and London offices of the Chicago Tribune and the New York Herald for most of his life; from September 1927 to June 1929 he was also an editor for transitio...

Jim Sagel writes about the Chicanos of northern New Mexico's Española Valley. He sees his writing as an attempt to portray their lives--particularly their language--with realistic accuracy. In an unpublished 1985 interview Sagel sai...

Ruth Sager devoted her career to the study and teaching of genetics. She conducted groundbreaking research in chromosomal theory, disproving nineteenth-century Austrian botanist Gregor Johann Mendel's once-prevalent law of inheritance --a ...

With a writing career that began in the mid 1950s, Carlos Sahagún belongs to the second generation of post-civil-war poets, the so-called children of the war. Although his subject matter is largely drawn from his experiences, his po...

Israeli mathematician whose work in mathematical logic and the mathematics of semantics has contributed greatly to the fields of logic and metalogic (logical systems that encompass other, lower-level logical systems). Shelah's most ...

Hans Sahl--poet, novelist, critic, and translator--is one of the many writers who had to wrest their works from the devastating experience of persecution, exile, and isolation. Though his career did not flourish in America as it might have...

Sai Baba of Shirdi (in the Ahmednagar district) or Shirdi Sai Baba (circa 1838 - 1918-10-15 ; his real name, birthplace and date of birth are unknown) was an Indian guru and fakir who is regarded by his Hindu and Muslim followers as a sain...

Said MusaPrime Minister (pronounced "sa-EED MOO-sa") "Our new economic initiatives are designed to inject substantial long-term capital into export industries and tourism while ensuring that the environment is pro...

Seyyid Said (1790-1856) was the energetic and resourceful sultan of Oman who transferred his capital from Arabia to Zanzibar, where he initiated clove production and greatly expanded the East African slave trade. Seyyid Said became sultan ...

The man known as Saigy (also called En'i late in life) was born the son of the samurai Sat Yasukiyo in 1118, at a time when government was in the hands of Retired Emperor Shirakawa and the imperial court was still relatively strong and pro...

George Saiko's two novels and short stories contain a complex literary world in which examination of recent history is combined with exploration of the unconscious. Like Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, and Heimito von Doderer, Saiko deals wit...

A powerful ancient dynasty in maritime Southeast Asia, especially in Java and Sumatra, Sailendra dominated Java from about 760 to 860 CE. This dynasty was credited with building a large Buddhist stupa, Borobudur, in the Kedu plain of prese...

SOURCE: Monroe, Harriet. “Comment: ‘Sailing To Byzantium.’” Poetry: A Magazine of Verse 37, no. 4 (January 1931): 208-13. In the following essay, Monroe considers ways in which she has “sailed to Byzantium” through her experienc...

Sailor Moon is a shoujo manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi in 1992 as the sequel to Codename wa Sailor V . Sailor Moon was published in Kodansha magazine from 1992 to 1997. The anime was produced by Toei and the original run was from M...

Sailor Song is a 1992 novel written by Ken Kesey. It details the lives of the residents of Kuinak, a small town in Alaska. It is a quiet, small fishing town, until a Hollywood movie crew come to shoot a scene and transform the town. It cent...

SAINTHOOD. Saint is a designation that Christianity has used to recognize individuals deemed to have lived lives of heroic virtue and who, as a result, dwell eternally with God. They therefore may be venerated in a public cult. Historians ...

Anthony of Padua (1195-1231), a Franciscan friar, was a remarkable theologian and preacher. He became the first theology teacher in the Franciscan order and is referred to as "Doctor of the Church." Anthony was canonized less than a year a...

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Give me chastity and continence, bu...