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Final treaty text agreed to in Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 1997. Another version printed in: Internat Legal Materials 36:1507-19 N 1997.

M. KATO highlights differences between the Japanese and the Western pattern of suicide.

Bank Mandiri, the largest bank in Indonesia, was the latest government institution to provide financial subsidies to Indonesian forestry conglomerates by writing off major part of their debts. Before Bank Mandiri, IBRA, under the pressure by the IMF for the "quick sales" of its assets, had written off debts of these forestry companies, in the amount of billions of US dollars. Previously, these forestry companies had grown rapidly, without regard to sustainable forests, due to Suharto's forest subsidies. These latest capital subsidies will encourage the companies to undervalue the forests they are charged with managing, and this will lead to continued high level forest destruction-paid for with public money.

The end of the Late Bronze Age ca. 1200 BC in the Eastern Mediterranean is traditionally viewed as an end point. Great empires collapsed, prominent cities were destroyed, interregional exchange disappeared, and writing systems were all but lost in most of the Eastern Mediterranean. The goal of this volume is to examine one key aspect of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron I in the Southern Levant, the development and changes in interregional exchange both over time and regionally. Twelve non-local types of material culture were collected into a database in order to track the development of interregional exchange over the course of the LBA to the Iron I. With this data, this volume explores what affect, if any, did changes in interregional exchange have on the 'collapse' of the LBA societies in the Southern Levant. Another key aspect of this work is an examination of the supposed wave of destruction which took the Southern Levant by storm to see if these events might have affected trade and contributed to the transitions during the end of the LBA into the Iron I. In all this work seeks to understand what changes took place in interregional exchange, how might destruction have affected this, and was this the cause for the transition to the Iron I.

The destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, resulted in a rapid response by government to evacuate the area and, in subsequent days, to bring the city back to a semblance of normalcy. This article provides a case study of government action in New York City during and after the World Trade Center catastrophe. What is most striking is the skill and intensity of government's response to the emergency and the hard work, dedication, and bravery of New York City's government officials. This article presents government and public service at its finest, under some of the most difficult conditions one can imagine.

The Old City of Tiberias was one of the most beautiful and ancient cities in Palestine. With a mixed population of Palestinian Arabs and (largely) Mizrahi 1 1 The Mizrahim are eastern or oriental Jews. and Sephardic Jews until the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, Tiberias – in which Maimonides is buried – is, according to Jewish tradition, among the four 'sacred' cities in the country. Shortly after Israel was established, the secular Zionist establishment decided to raze the Old City to its foundations. As a result of this policy, the Old City, with all its historical buildings and nearly all its historical walls, was entirely erased, and in its place today there are parking lots and modern high-rise hotels. This article traces the story of the destruction of Old Tiberias and examines the attitudes of the secular Labour Zionist leadership to a 'sacred' Jewish city and the reactions to these attitudes of the local Sephardic and Mizrahi public.

Front Matter; Preface; Acknowledgment of Reviewers; Contents; Tables, Figures, and Box; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Summary; 1 Introduction; 2 Metal Parts Treater System; 3 Assessment of Metal Parts Treater Testing Activities; 4 Thermal Testing, Modeling, and Predicted Throughput of the Metal Parts Treater; 5 Applicability of PCAPP Munitions Treatment Unit at BGCAPP; 6 General Findings and Recommendations; References; Appendixes; Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members; Appendix B: Committee Meetings and Site Visits.

"This book explores how the basic concepts of the yin-yang vision, and socioeconomic chaos theory, shed light on American civilization, what it represents, and the natural cycles it is going through. Zhang aims to "find the equations, the mechanisms, of historical evolution...I systematically compare the basic ideas related to virtue and non-government intervention between Confucius (a rationalist and sober ethical system), and Adam Smith.""--