US panel wants global body to control civil plutonium use

He Wants to Know

Sir,?I wonder whether any of your readers can answer the following questions: Has the Society of Medical Officers of Health taken any steps to bring to the notice of the Corporations of Manchester and Liverpool the salaries which should be offered for the positions shortly to become vacant? What will happen to County Nursing Associations when their probationers realise that a halftrained nurse ...

The Economics of US Civil War Conscription

US conscription in the Civil War is analyzed. Conscription was designed to gain federal control of enlistments, leaving state and local governments much of the fiscal and administrative responsibility for raising troops. Due to the hiring of substitutes, the payment of a fee to avoid service (commutation), and community-provided funds, only 2% of those who served were conscripted. Theory sugges...

Towards a Global Civil Society

The relationship between panel and synthetic control estimators of the effect of civil war

We examine the relationship between the case-study, synthetic control and largeN panel-data approaches using the costs of conflict as an example. In particular, we show that effects estimated from panel data models and effects estimated by the comparison of a treated case with a synthetic control are closely related. We then illustrate the similarities by studying the impact of civil war on the...

Analysing Youth Inclination to Body Management and Organs Control

The human body is endowed with varied forms of social significance, and it is this which sociology has addressed by asking questions such as: Towhat degree do individuals have control over their own bodies? Using familiar examples from everyday life, such as diet and exercise regimes,personal hygiene, dress, displays of emotion, and control over bodilyfunctions. This research investigates the b...