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CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD -- NAMIBIA'S FISHERIES: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW -- 1 A DIRECT ESTIMATE OF THE NAMIBIAN UPWELLING FLUX -- 2 THE EFFECTS OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CONTROL ON THE NORTHERN BENGUELA ECOSYSTEM -- 3 BIODIVERSITY OF THE NAMIBIAN EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE: A BRIEF REVIEW WITH EMPHASIS ON ONLINE DATABASES -- 4 ON NAMIBIA'S MARINE FISH DIVERSITY -- 5 RECONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION OF MARINE FISHERIES CATCHES FROM NAMIBIAN WATERS, 1950 TO 2000 -- 6 MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS OF MANIBIAN ANGLING FISH SPECIES

Beginning in the mid-1960s, Mexico encouraged the development of industrial assembly plants known as maquiladoras along its northern border and in selected areas of the interior. Although it began as a stopgap measure to employ men returning from the U.S. bracero worker program, the Border Industrialization Program soon became Mexico's principal development initiative for the border region. Since then, numerous scholars have evaluated the success of the plants by examining their impacts on the economy, the environment, and labor. This study adds to this research literature by assessing the impact of the maquiladora program from the perspective of the assembly line workers. It describes and analyzes the activities of a grassroots, participatory development effort to organize maquiladora workers for more than 20 years. Participatory approaches to development are defined and described in terms of the problems and challenges that animate this field of research. The findings demonstrate how participatory efforts at organizing constitute one of the few avenues available to workers to resist factory exploitation and improve their general well-being. The study confirms some of the shortcomings of participatory development theory, such as its conceptual ambiguity, significant time commitment, and general cumbersomeness, but it provides justifications for its continuance.

This report is on Amtrak: The Political and Social Aspects of Federal Intercity Passenger Rail Policy.

This is an exploratory study to examine the social and cultural determinants of the teaching of HIV/AIDS sex education among secondary school teachers in Eastern Nigeria. The research analyses how teachers perceive passing their knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention measures to their students in the context of their cultural and social norms, which restrict open discussion of sex. This is a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with 60 teachers drawn from secondary school teachers in Eastern Nigeria, supplemented with five focus group discussions, and content analysis of teachers' lesson preparatory notes. The findings show a high level knowledge of HIV/AIDS preventive measures among teachers. However, teachers are not passing on this knowledge because of cultural and social inhibitions. In addition, teachers have not been receiving adequate training and motivation on information, education and communication for HIV/AIDS sex education. The situation calls for serious policy intervention.

This survey of recent (post-1997) Western writing on the Stalin era focuses on the treatment of social & cultural issues by conventionally minded (empiricist) scholars, as well as those who employ postmodernist methodologies. Both schools are found to have major successes to their credit. The traditionalists were challenged first by revisionist social historians ('history from below') & later by protagonists of the 'cultural turn' who directed attention to identity formation, everyday life & symbolic communication. The innovators sometimes go beyond the limits of their evidence or confuse style with substance, but they have convinced most of their rivals that there was more disarray in government & popular disaffection than had previously been thought. Even so, the term 'totalitarianism,' if suitably redefined, can still be part of a serviceable analytical explanation, above all of political & juridical phenomena. Topics covered here include peasant revolts, gender relations, mass festivals, religious observance, academic life, science, & historiography. Adapted from the source document.