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The author focuses on the issues involving the unsealing of adoption records—allowing adoptees to discover who their birth parents are. He first examines the history of adoption and the development of adoption laws in the United States and then discusses currently enacted adoption statutes. Next, the author considers the benefits and disadvantages of unsealing adoption records to the birth parents, the adoptee, and the adoptive parents. He suggest a model law and offers an analysis of its advantages and problems. Through this proposal, the author hopes to assuage many of the problems existing in adoption laws now.

This article argues that it is possible to bring the social sciences into evolutionary focus without being committed to a thesis the author calls ontological reductionism, which is a widespread predilection for lower-level explanations. After showing why we should reject ontological reductionism, the author argues that there is a way to construe cultural evolution that does justice to the autonomy of social science explanations. This paves the way for a liberal approach to explanation the author calls explanatory pluralism, which allows for the possibility of explaining cultural phenomena in terms of different evolutionary processes.

Barbara Ehrenreich, author, social critic and political essayist, discusses the emotional and social aspects of warfare and violence. Barbara Ehrenreich is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.During the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. Ehrenreich is perhaps best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America.

Human rights — Jurisdiction — Torture — Convention against Torture, 1984 — Duty of non-refoulement in Article 3 — Conditions — Political activities in Zaire — Author applying for refugee status in Switzerland — Relevance of existence of consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass violations of human rights in Zaire — Whether author personally at risk of torture — Whether torture "foreseeable and necessary consequence" of return to Zaire — Obligation of State Party under Convention — Whether expulsion of author to Zaire would constitute a violation of Article 3 of Convention by SwitzerlandInternational tribunals — United Nations Committee against Torture — Jurisdiction — Procedure — Proof

THE AUTHOR SHOWS THAT BY 1990 POST-TITOIST YUGOSLAVIA HAD BECOME A HOBBESIAN WORLD, A STATE OF NATURE IN WHICH THE MEANS OF VIOLENCE WERE TOO WIDELY DISTRIBUTED TO AFFORD ANYONE SAFETY, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO FOUND THEMSELVES A MINORITY IN THE SUCCESSOR REPUBLICS. THE AUTHOR THEN SUGGESTS AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PART OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA. IN THIS OTHER PERSPECTIVE, HUMAN NATURE HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH IT, AND ATAVISM NOTHING AT ALL. NATIONALISM IS OFTEN DEPICTED AS THE IMPOSITION OF ABSTRACTIONS ON ORDINARY LIFE BY IDEALOGUES, THE AUTHOR ATTEMPTS TO DISSPELL THAT DEPICTION IN THIS ARTICLE.

THE AUTHOR REVIEWS THE MAIN POINTS OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE NATIONAL FRONT IN FRANCE, BY OUTLINING THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ORIGINS. THE FUNCTIONAL COHERENCE OF THE MOVEMENT IS DEMONSTATED, WHILE THE AUTHOR INDICATES THE LATENT INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS, ON A THEORETICAL LEVEL. THESE THESES ARE DEVELOPED IN LIGHT OF ATTACKS FROM JOURNALISTS AND MILITANTS ON J.M. LE PEN, WHO HAS BEEN TARGETED AS BEING DANGEROUS TO THE IDEALS OF A PLURALIST DEMOCRACY. THE AUTHOR ATTEMPTS TO DELINEATE LE PEN'S PURPOSES AND IDEALS IN CONTRAST WITH THE PURSUIT OF NATIONAL FRONT'S IDEALS AND GOALS.

THIS REPRINT OF WALTER LIPPMAN'S THE PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY, THE AUTHOR ARGUES, AFTER WWII, THAT DEMOCRACIES MAY BE DOOMED, DUE TO THE INABILITY OF THE EXECUTIVE TO ACT WITH AUTHORITY AND DECISIVENESS, WHICH PUTS DEMOCRACIES AT A VAST DISADVANTAGE IN THEIR COMPETITION WITH TOTALITARIAN ADVERSARIES. THE AUTHOR STUDIES THE INCREASINGLY DISRUPTIVE IMPACT OF MASS OPINION ON DEMOCRATIC POLICY FROM WWI INTO THE THIRTIES. THE AUTHOR FINDS A RULE: THAT AT CRITICAL JUNCTURES, WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH, THE PREVAILING MASS OPINION WILL IMPOSE A VETO UPON CHANGING THE CURRENT COURSE OF THE GOVERNMENT.

IN ORDER TO PROVE THAT THE MALADY OF DEMOCRATIC STATES IS A DERANGEMENT IN THE RELATION BETWEEN THE MASS OF PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT, THE AUTHOR LOOKS AT THE RELATION BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE POWER AND THE ELECTED ASSEMBLY, WITH EXAMPLES GOING BACK TO NORMAN ENGLAND. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT WESTERN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES ARE A DECLINING POWER IN HUMAN AFFAIRS, DUE TO THEIR DISABILITY IN COPING WITH THE MOUNTING DISORDER. THE AUTHOR ASKS HOW IF WE REJECT THE VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE IN A KING OR POPE, HOW DO WE REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, AND IS THE ASSEMBLY REALLY MORE EFFECTIVE.

THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE WEARINESS THAT A GREAT MANY AMERICANS FEEL ABOUT THESE LONG, LONG PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION PROCESS THAT WE NOW HAVE. ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH IT, IS NOT ONLY THE WEARINESS OF THE VOTERS, BUT THE SHEER FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION OF THE CANDIDATES. THE AUTHOR WOULD HAVE TO SAY TO YOU-THAT, THINKING BACK ON MY OWN EXPERIENCE, AND ALSO WATCHING WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, THE AUTHOR IS ABSOLUTELY SURE THAT ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE CAUSES OF MISTAKES IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNING IS FATIGUE AND EXHAUSTION.

The author examines the recent cases and rulings defining the circumstances under which discretionary commodity accounts will be considered a security. After describing the three major types of discretionary accounts the author concludes that only those accounts in which the broker and the investor have a common economic interest or dependence should be treated as securities. The author argues that in light of both the essential role in the commodities market played by discretionary accounts and the added investor protection provided by new commodities legislation, the courts should be slow to impose securities treatment upon discretionary accounts.

This report discusses the problem of how to organise the activities of the firm in order to achieve efficient logistics performance. In reviewing over 50 books and articles (professional and academic) published before 1975, the author identifies seven major themes, ranging from timing the establishment of logistics departments to modern theories of "matrix" organisations. The results of a survey conducted by the author in 1974 are presented, and the difficulties of developing definitive conclusions or guides to action in this area are discussed. (This report was written while the author was a graduate student at the Harvard Business School.)

The ambulatory landscape -- Strategy and leadership / with contributing author Jalana McCasland -- Organizational structure / by Carol K. Lucas -- Quality, safety, and patient experience / with contributing author Kristin Baird -- Operations -- Case study : LemonAid health : pursuing a new strategy in mental health -- Financial management -- Human resources.

Intro -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- About the Author.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on the Material -- Dream Sequence -- Carnivores -- Gormenghast -- Salto Mortal -- Bloods -- Three Hundred Twenty-two Hours -- Tuesday -- Juris Diction -- Cardillo -- Wednesday -- Dudley -- Thursday -- Friday -- The Doppler Effect -- Glossary -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Other Books by This Author -- About the Author.

Anthropologists discuss how pastoralists are coping and changing as the societies they inhabit change at an unprecedented rate. Joseph Ginat is the author of ""Blood Revenge: Family Honor, Mediation and Outcasting"", and Anatoly M. Khazanov is the author of ""Nomads and the Outside World""