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ABSTRACTRiparian habitat enhancement, or 'haven' creation, is considered to be the best way to facilitate the return of the UK's otter population to its former status. Using map and statistical analysis, results of Northumberland county otter surveys and the habitat improvements implemented by the North Northumberland Otter Project are examined and relationships between the two are identified. A statistically significant increase in the incidence of positive survey sites was identified between 1991 and 1995, and this increase was statistically related spatially to the creation of otter havens.

This is a comment on the article "Realizing Love and Justice" by Martha Saunders and Kathleen Martindale that appeared in Hypatia's Fall, 1992 Special Issue on Lesbian Philosophy.

Croatian higher education system's public space is researched through a critical analysis of a Croatian faculty's discourse. Representing a typical faculty social situation, two council meetings recorded in minutesare critiqued. Both meetings' minutes provide evidence of discourse strategies of deception used by faculty power holders to create an illusion of consent. We attribute the success of the deception to council members' ideas about the Faculty's groups/individuals, relations and issues related to the Faculty's hierarchy, their rank within that hierarchy, and their position within the Faculty's social network. To support our argument, we explore how the Faculty power holders' discourse is built on a power/ideology/language formation. We conclude that, failing to critique the faculty's discourse, council members neglected their historical task of paving the way to democracy.

THE LARGEST AND MEANEST DOGS, WE ARE TOLD, GET THE BIGGEST AND MEATIEST BONES. CANADA, AS A MIDDLE-SIZED DOG, OUGHT ACCORDINGLY TO END UP WITH A MIDDLE-SIZED SHARE OF THE BONES. FOREIGN POLICY OUGHT THEN TO BE A MATTER OF MAKING SURE THAT CANADA DOES GET ITS FAIR SHARE. CANADA WOULD BE NEAR THE TOP OF ALMOST ANYONE'S LIST OF MIDDLE POWERS. THAT CANADA IS ONE OF THE BIG SEVEN WHOSE LEADERS MEET BIENNIALLY TO DISCUSS ECONOMIC PROBLEMS INDICATES WIDE RECOGNITION OF CANADA'S 'UPPER MIDDLE POWER' STATUS. WHETHER CANADA IS TO BE LISTED AS ABOVE OR BELOW, SAY, ITALY OR INDIA OR EAST GERMANY IS NOT VERY IMPORTANT. IT IS ENOUGH TO SAY ABOUT ITS GENERAL POWER POSITION THAT IT IS IN THE TOP DOZEN. THIS FACT IS CENTRAL BUT BY ITSELF TELLS LITTLE ABOUT CANADIAN WILL AND CAPACITY IN PARTICULAR CASES. IT DOES NOT TELL US WHAT KINDS OF OUTCOMES RESULT FROM WHAT KINDS OF FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS TO ACHIEVE WHAT KINDS OF ENDS UNDER WHAT KINDS OF CONDITIONS.

The unevenness of development among the major regions of the U.S. reached an extreme at the end of the nineteenth century. Since then, the development of the major regions has become increasingly similar. This article uses Marx's general law of capitalist accumulation as the basis for an analysis of U.S. regional development that focuses on the antagonism between capital and labor. I argue that the transition from competitive to monopoly capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century initiated a shift in the principal spatial unevenness of development from regional unevenness within the U.S., to U.S. participation in uneven development on an international scale. The increasingly drastic inter national differentiation between the advanced and the underdeveloped countries has provided opportunities to reduce the unevenness of development among the major regions of the U.S.