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On September 12, 2006, 3 months after the Food and Drug Administration licensed a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), Michigan lawmakers became the first in the United States to propose that vaccination be compulsory for girls entering sixth grade. Parents who objected would be able to opt out of the requirement under the same provisions that apply to other vaccinations. The bill passed the state senate by an overwhelming margin a week later and awaits consideration by the house. Other states are likely to follow Michigan's lead.

The Strangers Religion is the latest volume of the annual Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion public lectures, in this case with a focus on the 'fear and fascination' of contemplating religions across boundaries of culture and faith. In 'Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and the Restoration of Justice in South Africa,' John W. De Gruchy provides a fascinating discussion of the insular and cooperative roles of the Abrahamic religious communities 'in the anti-apartheid struggle' and in 'the current era of national reconciliation and nation building' (p. 39).

This paper is about a massive migration towards Vojvodina which was caused by economic, and particularly, agrarian motives. This migration began shortly after colonization. Inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina were the most numerous among the settlers who were mostly rural people and who firstly turned to agrarian occupations and rural milieus. This was the last example of a classic migration from the mountain and agrarian-overcrowded regions towards Vojvodina. It is estimated that it was most intensive between 1955 and 1965. Later migrations were more often caused by urban motives.

Petr Lom's film, Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, offers viewers a striking visual narration of the deeply routinized practices of bride capture in contemporary Central Asia. In this review, I offer historical context eschewed by the film, observing how, contrary to popular belief, bride kidnapping increased under Russian imperial supervision. It later dwindled in the activist Soviet period, but rose again in the relative anarchy of the postsocialist landscape. What the film invites but does not explicitly entertain is a complex arithmetic of culturally coded understandings of volition, personal property, and alliance.

Few studies have collected contemporaneous data on social movements at their earliest stages. Thus, we know little about how social movement groups develop the characteristics that will later become assumed as what the group is. This study explores how social movement groups come to take on a particular character by collecting longitudinal, contemporaneous, comparative, and interactional data on what we term "emerging social movement groups" (ESMGs). Using concepts from time-geographic theory, we examine how three paired ESMGs develop distinctive interpersonal, organizational, and ideological characteristics.

This dissertation tries to provide insights into the dynamics of Internet-politics relations by looking at how the Internet was used in transition period - within two different political circumstances: the late period of Suharto and the post-Suharto period - for political activism. Using Indonesia as a local site of the nexus struggles over the choice, use and transformation of the Internet, this dissertation attempts to show how the Internet interplays with power struggles, and how the creation and assertion of identity become a focal point of contests over power.

International audience ; Central Benin bears the hallmark of a long history of mobility (as a buffer area and a refuge between slave raiding polities until the late XIXth century). Since the 1930s-40s, the nexus of local social relations (and pathways to accumulation) is made of complex linkages between control over labour force, access to land and natural resources, and out- and in-migrations. This contribution will discuss the interplay between the various institutional forms in the co-production of the local government of people and resources.

International audience ; Central Benin bears the hallmark of a long history of mobility (as a buffer area and a refuge between slave raiding polities until the late XIXth century). Since the 1930s-40s, the nexus of local social relations (and pathways to accumulation) is made of complex linkages between control over labour force, access to land and natural resources, and out- and in-migrations. This contribution will discuss the interplay between the various institutional forms in the co-production of the local government of people and resources.

The Cold War is over. Instead, in international politics, oppositions partly conditioned by religious-cultural factors have become more pronounced. Even the expectation that modernisation marginalises religion is falsified by the fact of actually existing societies which combine both. The most conspicuous example of such a society is the United States. The political significance of this is that the US has proved more competent in handling the latest Balkan crisis than the "old" European countries under the umbrella of the European Union. Adapted from the source document.

Provides a detailed history of the U.S. Commercial Service, from the late 1800s, considers its future, & notes the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service. The article covers the importance and purpose of commercial diplomacy but notes its quick decline after the 9/11 attacks. The author sees two possibilities for the future of this service: it will maintain its current position as a secondary form of foreign policy, or it will prosper with adequate help from a strong leader in the White House.

It is argued that US and NATO nuclear war plans are immoral, illegal, unnecessary, and dangerous. The US has never accepted the "no first use" policy and is capable of absorbing a first strike and then retaliating. With so many weapons on hair trigger alert, there is an unacceptable risk of misjudgment, as historical events like the 1962 Bay of Pigs incident. President Bush's latest nuclear strategy appears to discount the need for strategic stability and non-proliferation. Several security experts advocate drastic reductions in nuclear forces at this time.

Vladimir V. Petukhov and Valery V. Fedorov in "Transformation of Ideological Values and Political Preferences of Russians" analyze the results of the VCIOM polls and come to the conclusion that since the late 1990s one can see in Russia depoliticizing and deideologization of the social life. Difference between the left and the right, which was a dividing line for the society 10 years ago, currently is less important for the Russians than generation gap, interethnic or religious division, as well as the gap between the rich and the poor.

В статье раскрываются масонские взгляды Г.С. Батенькова, показана его деятельность по становлению и развитию первой в Сибири масонской ложи «Восточное светило на востоке Томска». Законодательная работа его ученика М.М. Сперанского по реформированию края рассматривается с точки зрения масонского миропонимания. ; The article reveals G.S. Baten'kova's Masonic sights, shows its activity on becoming and development of the first Masonic lodge in Siberia, and also the attitude to it in later Petersburg period. Legislative work of pupil M.M. Speranskogo on reformation of territories is considered from the point of view of Masonic outlook