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Environmentalists and governments everywhere agree that something must be done to halt the widespread use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS) and othersubstances that are destroying the earth's protective ozone layer-and just about everybody agrees that nobody is doingenough. Last week the Southern California city of Irvine (pop. 110,000) did more than most.

Letter, An old time Abolitionist to Albion Winegar Tourgée, 1892-11-25, from St. Louis, MO, regarding a clipping from the Misspouri newspaper the Globe Democrat, with his opinion that the information is misleading the public.

This article addresses the co-existence of rigid punctuality and a rubber-like flexibility in the Japanese conception of time. It examines how the clock and social norms shape the everyday use of time related to railways, work, and appointments in Japan. It demonstrates that multiple discourses of time and the complicated interactions among them create temporal complexity in which the seeming contradiction between rigidity and flexibility is compromised. The data derive from long-term participant-observation research among Japanese in Japan and abroad.

This essay is an analysis of a series of writings by the Australian intellectual historian Ian Hunter on the subject of 'theory'. It examines the methodological issues raised by attempting to write a history of theory. The essay particularly seeks to analyse the various aporias at stake in Hunter's project: between the empirical and the transcendental, between history and the event, and between theory and 'empirical' history. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]