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Abortion, Capital Punishment, And The Politics Of "God's" Will, Kimberly J. Cook

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

In her paper, Professor Kimberly J. Cook uses statistics to illustrate the role the Christian Right plays in the public discourse over two issues permeated with religious overtones: abortion and the death penalty. She shows how the Christian Right's approach to these issues is based on an ideological notion of 'Justice " that is primarily focused on vengeance and punishment, to the exclusion of forgiveness. Professor Cook's exploration of the modern roots of this ideology leads to a movement dating from the 1960s known as Christian Reconstructionism, which advocates using state action to enforce its unique interpretation of "God's Will." …

The Role Of Organized Religions In Changing Death Penalty Debates, Michael L. Radelet

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

In his Article, Professor Michael L. Radelet describes a global decline in the use of the death penalty, the United Nation's progressively stronger stance against executions, and a growing opposition to capital punishment in the United States. This decrease is attributed to both empirical studies casting doubt on the death penalty's efficacy in promoting its stated underlying goals, and to the increasingly vocal stance of religious leaders morally opposed to capital punishment. Nevertheless, the decline in other justifications for capital punishment has been met with increasing reliance on retribution as the primary argument in its support. Professor Radelet argues that …

Religious Organizations And The Death Penalty, Robert F. Drinan

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Over the past several years, many questions have been raised concerning the application and effectiveness of the death penalty. Ironically, the Catholic Church, a long-time supporter of the death penalty, has become one of the most vocal critics of the death penalty. In this Essay, Father Robert F. Drinan documents the Church's new-found opposition to the death penalty, and discusses the influence the Church will have on the future of the death penalty.

Everyone Benefits, Everyone Pays: Does The Fifth Amendment Mandate Compensation When Property Is Damaged During The Course Of Police Activities?, C. Wayne Owen Jr.

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, along with similar provisions in state constitutions, forbids the taking of private property by the government for a public use without just compensation. Despite this protection, many courts have denied takings claims made by innocent third party landowners when police officers caused damage to their property during the course of executing their official duties. These courts held that the damage was not for a "public use" in the narrow sense, and have refused to analyze the claims under takings jurisprudence. This narrow view of "public use" ignores the fact that society as …

Industry Guide To Selecting The Best Residential Window Options For The Florida Climate, Florida Solar Energy Center, Ross Mccluney

FSEC Energy Research Center®

It used to be said that windows are little more than holes in the insulation. It is true to some extent that poorly insulated and drafty windows in certain climates defeat the purpose of wall insulation. However, modern high performance windows are almost as good as opaque insulated wall sections, at least in terms of total energy savings over long periods of time. In some cases, they can be shown to actually out-perform insulated walls. Of course, they have the priceless additional benefits of providing views to the outdoors and natural daylight illumination indoors important issues of quality and comfort. …

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Que Ondee Sola - December 2000, Michael Rodriguez-Muniz

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: International Day 2000: Celebrating the Absurd and Unprofessional, Mas Que Platillos y Bailes Tradicionales, World AIDS Day, AIDS: Men Make a Difference, Panel Aboga por Demilitarizacion de Puerto Rico, Published Racism, Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle Part 5, Boricuas Take Over the Statue of Liberty, Desde la Cocina, Poetry

The Ade Annual Meeting Sessions, Oakland, California, October 5-7, 2000

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Editing California Writers--The ADE Breakfast--Documentary Editing in the Digital Age--Documentary Scholarship in the Bay Area--Recent Developments in the Fashioning of Electronic Databases--The Book, the Byte, and the Bread: A Forum--Editing the Spanish Southwest.

Recent Editions--December 2000

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This quarterly feature provides an annotated bibliography of current documentary editions published on subjects in tbe fields of American and British history, literature, and culture and is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English-language works.

Subscription And Organization Information [December 2000]

Nebraska Bird Review

The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $14.00 in the United States; $18.00 for all foreign countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $4.00 each, postpaid, in the United States, and $5.00 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Mary Prichard, NOU Librarian, University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, NE 68588-0514.

Memberships in NOU (on a calendar year basis only): Active, $15.00; Sustaining, $25.00; Student, $10.00; Family Active, $20.00; Family Sustaining, $30.00; …

Catalogue Of The Ectoparasitic Insects Of The Bats Of Argentina, Analia G. Autino, Guillermo E. Claps

Insecta Mundi

Abstract:Taxonomy and distribution of the ectoparasitic insects of bats from Argentina, are reviewed. Seventeen species of Diptera (six of Nycteribiidae and eleven of Streblidae), six species of Siphonaptera (four of Ischnopsyllidae, one of Pulicidae, and one of Stephanocircidae), and seven species of Hemiptera (Polyctenidae) are known presently for Argentina. The information was obtained by reviewing the literature and collecting in the field between 1989 and 1998. The specimens collected in the field were compared with the type material deposited at the Field Museum of Natural History (CHNM).

Resumen: En este primer cathlogo de insectos ectoparhsitos de murcielagos de la …

Justice In Health Care Access Measuring Attitudes Of Health Care Professionals, Sandra Blanton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

To measure attitudes toward justice in access to health care services in managed care plans in a convenience sample of medical professionals at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Methods. A sixteen item, self-administered instrument based on Morreim's four concepts of justice in health care access was administered to 147 health care professionals, representing physicians, allied health, and hospital administration. SPSS was used to analyze the results. Results. The attitudes of the respondents were negative toward managed care. They did not feel that managed care had been a positive development in the United States or that managed care had improved …

A “Touching Man” Brings Aacqu Close, Kenneth M. Roemer

English Faculty Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Genealib Archive 2000-12, Genealib

GENEALIB Archive

No abstract provided.

Instructions, December 2000 Graduates, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

Instructions for graduates walking in the December 1995 commencement ceremony at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Sentence Final Particles In Bisu Narrative, Kirk Roger Person

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

Particles are a vital component of many Asian languages. Nonetheless, they typically receive little treatment in grammatical studies. This may be due in part to the theoretical orientations of generative grammar which, intentionally or accidentally, can tend to skew data collection and analysis toward theory-predicted sentence alignments (Chu 1998, Chan 1999). In addition, the exact meaning and usage of many particles can be anything but obvious. Even educated native speakers often claim that particles are not “true words” and have no “real” meaning. This dissertation seeks to understand the inner workings of sentence final particles in the Bisu language of …

Influence Of Habitat Use Patterns On Cooperative Breeding In The Brown-Headed Nuthatch, Albert Herb Jr., D. Brent Burt

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

We document the habitat use patterns of the Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla). We describe how its habitat use patterns contribute to ecological constraints that may maintain cooperative breeding in this species. Brown-headed Nuthatches are pine specialists. In particularly, Brown-headed Nuthatches forage primarily on the bark and cones in the top distal portions of mature pines. Breeding territories differ considerably in pine density. We suggest that differences in pine density are an indicator of habitat and territory quality. We predict that additional studies will document that helpers are more common on relatively small territories with high tree densities and in habitats …

H. B. Butcher And The Birds Of Laredo, Stanley D. Casto

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

First Nesting Record Of Blue Jay In Hidalgo County, Texas, Tim Brush

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Advocate, December 2000, Vol. [12], No. [3], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Image: U.S. Corporate Media Distort Realities of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Independent Media Center (p. 1)

Exclusive Advocate and NYC-IMC Interview: Talking with Noam: Interview @ Columbia University in Professor Manning Marable’s Office on 11/16/00. Andrew Kennis, and other members of the NYC-IMC (p. 7)

Investigation: Bad Gamble. Rob Wallace (p. 8)

Student Activism: CUNY Students Show Support for the “People’s Lawyer.” Dave Gerardi and Mark Petras (p. 11)

Masthead (p. 2)

Announcements (p. 2)

To the Reader. Mark Petras.

Congratulations to the CCNY Messenger. Mark Petras.

Graduate Center

Pub Crawl. Mrs. Eleanor B. Tippler, M.Sc. (p. 3)

All …

“Sketches Of Spain”: Richard Wright's Pagan Spain And African-American Representations Of The Hispanic, Guy J. Reynolds

Department of English: Faculty Publications

At the start of Pagan Spain (1957), Richard Wright recalled a 1946 conversation with Gertrude Stein; she encouraged him to visit Spain: “ ‘You'll see what the Western world is made of. Spain is primitive, but lovely. ’ ” Wright meditated on his fascination with that country, an obsession rooted in the Civil War's political upheaval: “The fate of Spain hurt me, haunted me; I was never able to stifle a hunger to understand what had happened there and why” (PS, 10). Wright wrote as a leftist, as a political writer who had published anti-Franco articles. In his …

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter, No. 6, December 2000, István Eszterhás

Pseudokarst Commission Newsletter

Contents: Preliminary Setup for the 8th International Symposium on Pseudokarst -- Root Stalagmites -- Istavan Eszterhas, Member of the Explorers Club -- The State of the Hungarian Pseudokarst Researchers -- New Knowledge of the Ragac Chasm in Cerova Mountain, Slovakia

Gadamer, Heidegger, And The Social Dimensions Of Language: Reflections On The Critical Potential Of Hermeneutical Philosophy, Ingrid Scheibler

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Beginning with an account of recent efforts, like Georgia Warnke's, to demonstrate Hans-Georg Gadamer's relevance to legal theory, this Article looks at Gadamer's conception of language and tradition, claiming that, while he shares important features of Heidegger's thought, Gadamer productively grounds his view of language and tradition in such a way that the everyday realm of public discourse, characterized by a healthy injunction to foster reasoned debate amongst divergent perspectives and interpretations, has a vital and integral role to play. While Gadamer criticizes the Enlightenment's hostility to tradition, paradoxically, his concept of linguistically mediated tradition has far more in common …

Foucault And Gadamer: Like Apples And Oranges Passing In The Night, Gary Wickham

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article explores some points of connection between Michel Foucault's "governmentality" approach and Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics and concludes that Gadamer's project does not easily mesh with the Foucaultian critique. Instead, this Article argues that Foucault's reading of Heidegger diverges significantly from Gadamer's, and that an attempt to link the philosophers through their common heritage is unavailing. In conclusion, this Article suggests that the divide between hermeneutics and critical theory (in a Foucaultian sense) cannot be bridged easily, despite the few vague family resemblances evident in the literature.

Assessment Of Occurrences Of Magnificent Frigatebirds In Northwest Florida: The Influence Of Weather And Roosts, Douglas B. Mcnair

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

New Mexico, Sartor O. Williams Iii

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Oregon-Washington, Steve Mlodinow, Bill Tweit, Bill Tice

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Quebec, Pierre Bannon, Yves Aubry, Normand David, Samuel Denault

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Ethics In Academia, 2000, Wmu Center Of The Study Of Ethics In Society

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers presented for the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University.

[Price Laboratory School] Newsletter, V11n4, December 2000, University Of Northern Iowa. Malcolm Price Laboratory School

Malcolm Price Laboratory School Newsletter

Inside this Issue:
-- Wendell's Article
-- AFPLS/PTP Benefit Auction
-- PTP NEWS American Education Week
-- 3rd Annual PLS Golf Outing & PTP Fundraiser
-- mall4schools Program
-- Student Directory
-- Thank you PTP, Student Council and Administrators
-- The Auction continues...for a digital copier
-- Girls Cross Country
-- Notes from the Middle School Coordinator
-- IAHPERD Conference Held on November 3 and 4
-- Amnesty International Chapter Founded at NU High
-- Support Our School With These Fund Raisers!
-- Welcome New Student
-- NUHS to host State Individual Events Speech Contest Volunteers Needed!
-- Creative Drama …