540 T HE LITERATURE THAT examines public policy toward illicit drugs is littered with ideological polemics of questionable academic merit. With an inflammatory title like Drug War Heresies, one might expect Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter's recent contribution to this debate to be yet another biased, politically motivated harangue. In spite of the title, however, MacCoun and Reuter's book tu...

The Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) are one of the most species rich families of insects, with about 11 100 described species. Mirinae is the largest subfamily and its endemism becomes evident at the tribal level and below. Mirines of the tribe Restheniini are found throughout America, with most of the diversity confined to the Neotropics. Prepops Reuter is the largest genus in Restheniini wi...

four genera and five species of idolothripinae are recorded in iran: allothrips hood, compsothrips reuter and pseudocryptothrips priesner each with one species, and megathrips targioni-tozzetti with 2 species. in this paper, the genus nesothrips kirkaldy, with one species n. brevicollis (bagnall) collected on grasses in marivan, kurdistan province, is recorded in iran for the first time. a key ...

Paul R. Bierman,* Joanna M. Reuter, Milan Pavich, Allen C. Gellis, Marc W. Caffee and Jennifer Larsen 1 Geology Department and School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA 2 Geology Department, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA 3 United States Geological Survey, National Center, Reston, VA 22092, USA 4 Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Law...