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The East African coast, stretching from Somalia, down past Kenya and Tanzania to Mozambique was long thought to be a region of Africa that, while rich in minerals, was of little interest to international oil companies (IOCs). On the rare occasions that drilling had taken place in this vast and diverse region, it had too often failed; prolific oil seeps had failed to reveal commercially exploitable fields. And when potentially commercial fields had been found, for example in Somalia, political crises had intervened to send IOCs declaring force majeure, or at least persuading them not to renew their permits.

An objective look at America's rapidly shrinking water supply Once believed to be a problem limited to America's southwest, water shortages are now an issue coast to coast, from New England to California. In Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America, author Susan J. Marks provides a comprehensive analysis of the current conflicts being waged over dwindling water supplies. She presents the findings of university studies, think tanks, and research groups, as well as the opinions of water experts, including Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, an

1 Pleasure-seeking and the aetiology of dependence -- 2 Legislation on drug control and drug abuse -- 3 British experience in the management of opiate dependence -- 4 The antagonist analgesic concept -- 5 Cannabis and dependency -- 6 Alcohol dependence: the 'lack of control' over alcohol and its implications -- 7 Dependence and psychoactive drugs -- 8 The nature and treatment of cigarette dependence -- 9 Compulsive overeating.

The rising partisan animus between Democrats and Republicans has significant consequences for American society, both political and nonpolitical. The present study used two preregistered randomized controlled designs to investigate whether scalable meditation interventions could reduce affective polarization, relative to baseline scores measured 1 week earlier, in American adults (Study 1: N = 353; Study 2: N = 246) who affiliated with either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. The results suggest that a brief befriending meditation can reduce affective polarization between Democrats and Republicans by increasing positive feelings relatively more for the political outgroup than the political ingroup.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: IVF and Assisted Reproduction: Global Visions, Local Stories -- Chapter Outline and Historical Overview -- Language, Narrative and Media -- The Power of Analogy -- Rights and Needs -- Words Unsaid -- Assisted Reproduction: An Intimate Industry -- 2: Towards the Two 1978 Births -- Disciplines and Imaginaries -- Clinical and Scientific Disciplines -- The IVF Imaginary -- Bringing Together Ideas and Materials -- Materials, Tools and Techniques -- Tortuous Paths to IVF -- Global Contexts, National Priorities -- 'Making' IVF 'Right': Technical Promises, Ethical Issues and Women Pioneers117 -- 'Assembling' for 'Success' in the UK and India -- Conclusions -- 3: The Foundations of Global Assisted Reproduction -- Fertility Drugs and New Patient Cohorts -- The First Bourn Hall Meeting -- Media Responses -- Institutionalising Assisted Reproduction: Associations, Meetings, Journals -- International Training -- Money -- Commercial Ties: Drugs and Devices -- News Media and Public Relations -- Nations, Natalism and Assisted Reproduction -- Population and Procreation -- Eugenic Thinking and Assisted Reproduction -- Conclusions -- 4: Regulation and Risk -- Early Regulatory Moves -- Regulatory Activism: The Role of Religion -- Religion and Compliance -- Religion, AR and 'Left' Versus 'Right' -- Regulatory Activism: Peer Regulation -- Regulatory Activism: Feminist Interventions -- Case Study: Italy's Law 40/2004 -- Soft Regulation, Risk Management and Compliance Strategies -- Clinical Risk: The Example of Multiple Births -- Multiple Births and Patients' Perspectives -- Donor Anonymity -- Success Rates -- Conclusions -- 5: Oocytes, Surrogacy and Cross-Border Reproduction -- Donation and Selling of Oocytes -- Egg Donation -- Egg Sharing -- Egg Selling -- Oocyte Provider Profiling.

Abstract. The sexual double standard (SDS) has traditionally been studied by examining evaluations of hypothetical targets. Although much knowledge has been gained regarding the SDS by using this methodology, the literature thus far has suffered from a lack of ecological validity. The goal of the present study was to determine whether the SDS emerged in evaluations of participants' real-life friends and acquaintances. Participants ( n = 4,455) evaluated a single, randomly assigned male or female friend or acquaintance whose sexual history they were familiar with. Women were evaluated more negatively as their number of sexual partners increased, whereas number of partners was not related to evaluations of men. The SDS was not moderated by the closeness of the relationship between the participant and the target person.