Almost four years have passed since opponents of reproductive rights kicked off a nationwide campaign against so-called partial-birth abortion, and the issue has been the focal point of the antiabortion agenda ever since. Across the country, the campaign has generated countless hours of debate and scores of legislative votes. Members of Congress have considered the federal Partial-Birth Abortio...

In the event of a single, low-yield nuclear detonation in a major urban area, rapidly providing adequate shelter to affected populations could save 10 000– 100 000 individuals from a fatal exposure to fallout radiation. However, poorly sheltered individuals may remain at risk. Current guidance and prior studies are not consistent as to the timing and conditions under which poorly sheltered indi...

Paul Ehrlich is really Paul Revere. As he gallops verbally through our society, he warns us of the enemy rapidly approaching. The enemy, much more deadly than the British Redcoats, is in fact, global ecological catastrophe caused by the unbridled increase in the human population, the wanton and gluttonous utilization of the earth's precious and limited resources, and the careless despoliation o...

In this paper we introduce a new method for pessimistically ensuring the atomicity of atomic sections. Similar to previous systems using locks, our system allows programmers to annotate the types of objects with the shelters—an alternative to locks inspired by the Jade programming language— that protect them, and indicate the sections of code to be executed atomically with atomic sections. A st...

Cryotherapy, first advocated by Bietti (I933), has been widely accepted as a useful means of achieving adhesion in the treatment of retinal detachment. It was later popularised by Lincoff, McLean, and Nano (i964), who subsequently used this form of treatment in their modifications of the Custodis procedure for the treatment of retinal detachment (Lincoff, Baras, and McLean, I965). Various compl...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the applicability of the 1 3 7Cs technique in obtaining spatial distributed inform ation on mean soil redistribution rates in Central-South Chile. For this purpose four fields of Palehumult soil and contrasting land use and management were selected in the Coastal Mountain Range of the 9th Region: Crop fields under subsistence and commercial man...