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NEWFOUNDLAND HAS SINCE THE MID-19TH CENTURY CREATED A DISTINCT SOCIETY THAT COULD NOT EASILY GIVE UP ITS INDEPENDENCE IN A WIDER COMMUNITY. THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES UNITY IN A COMMON CAUSE, REJECTION OF CONFEDERATION IN 1869, AND CONFEDERATION IN 1949. IT QUESTIONS WHETHER CONFEDERATION IS THE RIGHT STRATEGY AND EXPLORES THE DANGERS POSED FOR A SIMPLE RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY BEING ABSORBED INTO A LARGE MORE MATERIALISTIC ENTITY.

The management of chronic disease and the contribution patients make to their own care is attracting widespread attention, nationally and internationally. A range of self-management courses have been developed by Kate Lorig and her team at Stanford University's Medical School since the early 1980s, some of which have now been implemented throughout England and across other parts of the UK. Designed for people with long-term health conditions, they are delivered by hundreds ofagencies worldwide, and differentiate the concept of disease management (to be done by a health care professional) from

AbstractDuring recent years, barrages and marina developments have increasingly been viewed as a means of improving the aesthetic and recreational qualities of degraded urban areas, thereby encouraging inward investment. However, barrage schemes can have major implications for the National Rivers Authority's statutory responsibility for flood defence, fisheries, recreation, water quality and conservation.The experiences gained by the National Rivers Authority's Welsh Region in its negotiations with promoters of the Tawe, Cardiff Bay and Usk barrages are presented. The paper describes the environmental safeguards secured for the Tawe barrage, together with some initial assessments of its impact on the aquatic environment following its completion in 1992. The experience gained with the Tawe barrage has contributed to a more rigorous approach being applied by the National Rivers Authority to the Cardiff Bay and Usk schemes.

Hope's halfway model, which represents an attempt to differentiate structural from other sources of occupational mobility, is defended against Sobel's recent criticism, which has force only if the independence model is rejected as an appropriate baseline from which to measure social mobility and immobility. Sobel treats the independence model primarily as a statistical model, whereas in the classical tradition it was a substantive model as well: the model of equality of opportunity. Understood in this way, the independence model, and the macrosociological concepts of structural and circulation mobility, have a continuing place in mobility analysis. It is also argued that Sobel's strictures on the Yasuda index are vacuous, since the examples he gives merely illustrate the nature (and crudity) of that measure.