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American Gypsy:. Stranger in Everybody's Land. 1999. 80 minutes, color, English narration with some spoken Romani. film produced and directed by Jasmine Dellal. For more information contact Little Dust Productions, 878 Grove St., San Francisco, CA 94117; http://americangypsy.com/.

This paper shows a general nonparametric unfolding technique for maximizing the correct classification of binary choice or two-category data. The motivation for and the primary focus of the unfolding technique are parliamentary roll call voting data. However, the procedures that implement the unfolding also can be applied to the problem of unfolding rank order data as well as analyzing a data set that would normally be the subject of a probit, logit, or linear probability analysis. One aspect of the scaling method greatly improves Manski's "maximum score estimator" technique for estimating limited dependent variable models. To unfold binary choice data two subproblems must be solved. First, given a set of chooser or legislator points, a cutting plane must be found such that it divides the legislators/choosers into two sets that reproduce the actual choices as closely as possible. Second, given a set of cutting planes for the binary choices, a point for each chooser or legislator must be found which reproduces the actual choices as closely as possible. Solutions for these two problems are shown in this paper. Monte Carlo tests of the procedure show it to be highly accurate in the presence of voting error and missing data.

The migration of people from rural as well as urban settlements assumed unmanageable proportions resulting in urban chaos, sub-standard and dehumanising envionment which has further resulted into distinctive hange in the living style of urban people thus ruralising the urban way of life. There is also a noticeable change of urban population living in slums due to wide spread poverty and neglect of urban basic servcices. Housing being one of the most important sector of urban development present itself a critical situation in urban India and for decades it remained as a neglected sector in the development programmes. Urban management tasks call for improvement in the institutional capacity for organising, undertaking, planning, programming and implementing the whole range of urban services which requires structural improvement of the local bodies including improving internal working system. The involvement of community at each stage of planning and development is necessary to enhance the success of the programme and maximising the community understanding.

A workshop paper on the Zimbabwe Water Legislation. ; In the Western world there are two main systems of law — the English and the Roman Dutch systems. Though Zimbabwe was colonized by the English, its legal system falls under the Roman Dutch system because of the South African influence. According to the Roman Dutch law, water is a public resource. The water legislation (the Water Act, 1976) in Zimbabwe broadly affirms this common law position. Under this system private water is vested in the owner of the land on which it is found and its sole and exclusive use belongs to such an owner. All water, that is not private water, is vested in the President and shall not be abstracted, apportioned, controlled, diverted or used than in accordance with the provisions of this Act.1 The basic principle that water is a public resource is a sound one and needs no change. However, not all water is treated as a public resource. The law recognises private and underground water as distinct entities from public water. This shall be expanded later on. ; Special thanks are due to the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC), The Hague, for providing financial support towards the hosting of the workshop upon which this book is based. NUFFIC also met part of the publication costs. The two coordinating committees of the Zimbabwe Programme on Women, Extension, Sociology and Irrigation (ZIMWESI), a NUFFIC-funded inter-university exchange programme in research and training between the University of Zimbabwe and Wageningen Agricultural University deserve special mention for the moral support they gave us.