Expressing t h e v i e w s of Turkey, four Statesmen last weekend took the floor at the 13th Annual Model United Nations Security Council at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Representing Albany State as delegates to the Council were Ross Dunn, Jan Dyckman, Roy Knapp. and Robert Rittner. Each of the delegates took Turkey's seat for the discussion of two resolutions concerned with pre...

“Travel broadens the mind” and people have been extolling the merits of travel for a very long time .The general belief is that travel is good for travelers’ mentally and physically. But while travel can indeed be interesting and exciting, and good for mental and physical wellbeing, all too often it can be harmful to a traveler's health (1) .The increase in numbers of travellers and the speed a...

BACKGROUND Many individuals together in semi-confined settings increase the risk of outbreaks of infectious diseases. A single case of varicella on a cruise ship can thus result in rapid spread and elevated costs for the cruise provider in terms of repatriation, ship diversion, law suits, and loss in current and potential future revenue. Control of varicella involves attention to good personal ...

We build a continous-time general equilibrium model of a two-country, pure-exchange economy featuring taxes on the repatriation of dividends. We find approximate closed-form expressions for asset prices, returns joint dynamics and equity portfolios, thus giving a full description of equilibrium in-between the polar cases of perfect integration and full segmentation. We show that large home bias...