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EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES IS AN ARMY FOR HIRE. A SOPHISTICATED FORCE, THE "COMPANY" WSILL NOT WORK FOR REBEL MOVEMENTS BUT CONTRACTS WITH "DEMOCRATIC" GOVERMENTS. "EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES IS THE SMALL WAVE OF THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF DEFENCE AND SECURITY, BECAUSE THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS ABDICATED THAT ROLE" (BARLOW, 1997). RATHER THAN BEING SEEN AS MERCENARIES, THEY PREFER THE LBAEL OF "CORPORATE TROUBLESHOOTERS", A NICHE WHICH INCORPORATES A HUGE UNMET DEMAND FOR SECURITY IN AFRICA.

Three hundred patients with cataract and 609 control subjects with the same age-sex distribution were interviewed in a study of cataract in Oxfordshire, England. The risks associated with severe diarrhoea, glaucoma, and work on a military base have been demonstrated. Population attributable risks were calculated for those and other risk factors.

In an attempt to determine the origins of sex differences in average earnings, the conventional human capital earnings function is applied to a set of Malaysian wage data. The results demonstrate that women earn considerably less than men for reasons other than differences in (observable) skills. The findings are consistent with the view that a major part of the earnings difference is attributable to the employment of women in low-paying occupations. (DÜI-Sen)

This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy, commissioned from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners and intended for an English-speaking readership. The dominant 'Anglo-Saxon' reaction to philosophical development in France has for some decades been one of suspicion, occasionally tempered by curiosity but more often hardening into dismissive rejection. But there are signs now of a more sympathetic interest and an increasing readiness to admit and explore shared concerns, even if these are still expressed in a very different idiom and intellectual context. Vincent Descombes offers here a personal guide to the main movements and figures of the last forty-five years. He traces over this period the evolution of thought from a generation preoccupied with the 'three H's' - Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger, to a generation influenced since about 1960 by the 'three masters of suspicion' - Marx, Nietzsche and Freud. In this framework he deals in turn with the thought of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, the early structuralists, Foucault, Althusser, Serres, Derrida, and finally Deleuze and Lyotard. The 'internal' intellectual history of the period is related to its institutional setting and the wider cultural and political context which has given French philosophy so much of its distinctive character