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Deterrence Misapplied: Challenges in Containing a Nuclear Iran
Argues against relying on deterrence against a nuclear Iran by analyzing problems with the disproportionate focus on Iran's current leadership in debates over deterrence strategies and considering the implications of various doctrines of deterrence
The World of the Tent-Makers/ A natural history of the eastern tent caterpillar. V. G. Dethier. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA 01002. 1980. 148 pages, 5,95 (paper).
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This book is small in size, but large in stature, a simply eloquent narrative on the encounters of genes; a look at the problems and solutions evolved by the eastern tent caterpillar in getting from one year to the next
A new species of Tetraopes Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
A new species of the genus Tetraopes Schoenherr, T. huetheri Skillman, is described from South Dakota, USA. A modification to the existing key is provided. The new species is illustrated. The probable host plant is identified and illustrated
ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY VS. DISTRIBUTIVE EQUITY: THE "SAGEBRUSH REBELLION"
The purpose of this paper is to interpret, from the viewpoint of an economist, some of the causes of the ‘Sagebrush Rebellion,’ a contemporary land reform movement directed toward the Bureau of Land Management and its control of the public domain. Distributive equity concerns on the part of ‘Sagebrush Rebellion’ supporters are identified, as are the contributions of neoclassical welfare theory to the debate. Reflections of those social and theoretical concerns in Federal legislation and agency policy and regulations are explored.Land Economics/Use,
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