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The Changing American Hospital In The Twenty-First Century, Ralph W. Muller Jan 2003

The Changing American Hospital In The Twenty-First Century, Ralph W. Muller

Center for Policy Research

One is always hesitant to speak about the future. A famous philosopher from New York, Yogi Berra, said "Making predictions is difficult, especially about the future," and I have some trepidation about doing so now. There is also the difficulty of understanding what really has happened in the past. I recall the Bolshevik general in 1917 who said "The future is clear, but the past is very murky." We anticipate the future with more clarity than is justified, even as we disagree on what is happening right now or what happened before. In that vein, I will describe the role …

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Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally: Public Policy Issues Of The Georgia Hope Scholarship Program And The Lottery For Education, Ross Rubenstein Jan 2003

Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally: Public Policy Issues Of The Georgia Hope Scholarship Program And The Lottery For Education, Ross Rubenstein

Center for Policy Research

The HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally_ scholarship program, which began in 1993, is one of the most popular public policies ever enacted in the state of Georgia. This lottery-funded program pays for tuition, fees, and books at any public college or university in the state for any Georgia student who graduates from high school with a B or better grade point average (GPA). To keep the scholarship, students must maintain the B or better GPA in college. The program's popularity has spread well beyond Georgia's borders; at least a dozen other states have instituted similar broad-based merit scholarship programs, and …

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Do Public Expenditures Improve Child Outcomes In The U.S.? A Comparison Across Fifty States, Kristen Harknett, Irwin Garfinkel, Jay Bainbridge, Timothy Smeeding Jan 2003

Do Public Expenditures Improve Child Outcomes In The U.S.? A Comparison Across Fifty States, Kristen Harknett, Irwin Garfinkel, Jay Bainbridge, Timothy Smeeding

Center for Policy Research

Our paper utilizes variation across the 50 U.S. states to examine the relationship between public expenditures on children and child outcomes. We find that public expenditures on children are related to better child outcomes across a wide range of indicators, including measures of child mortality, elementary-school test scores, and adolescent behavioral outcomes. States that spend more on children have better child outcomes even after taking into account potential confounding influences. Our results are robust to numerous variations in model specifications and to the inclusion of proxies for unobserved characteristics of states. Our sensitivity analyses suggest that the results we present …

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Entrepreneurship And Economic Growth: The Proof Is In The Productivity, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chihwa Kao Jan 2003

Entrepreneurship And Economic Growth: The Proof Is In The Productivity, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Chihwa Kao

Center for Policy Research

Popular and policy discussions have focused extensively on "entrepreneurship." While entrepreneurship is often viewed from the perspective of the individual's benefits--an increase in standard of living, flexibility in hours, and so forth--much of the policy interest derives from the presumption that entrepreneurs provide economy-wide benefits in the form of new products, lower prices, innovations, and increased productivity. How large are these effects? Using a rich panel of state-level data, we quantify the relationship between productivity growth--by state and by industry--and entrepreneurship. Specifically, we use state-of-the-art econometric techniques for panel data to determine whether variations in the birth rate and death …

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The Observatory Of The Americas As A Network In Environmental And Worker Health In The Americas, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Fernando Martins Carvalho Jan 2003

The Observatory Of The Americas As A Network In Environmental And Worker Health In The Americas, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Fernando Martins Carvalho

C. Eduardo Siqueira

This article reviews the scope of several Observatories found by a search in the Internet through the Google search engine. After examining these observatories, it describes the aims and initial accomplishments of the Observatory of the Americas as a network of professionals and activists from different countries in the Americas. The article concludes with a discussion of the pattern identified among these observatories: they may be clearinghouses or networks, or both.

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Case Studies On The Implementation Of The Workforce Investment Act: Focus On Involving Customers With Disabilities, Sheila Fesko, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Allison Cohen Hall Jan 2003

Case Studies On The Implementation Of The Workforce Investment Act: Focus On Involving Customers With Disabilities, Sheila Fesko, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Allison Cohen Hall

Case Studies Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

Although it is uniformly accepted that customers with disabilities should be involved in the process to create a new workforce system under the mandates of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), anecdotal evidence suggests this to be more rhetoric than reality. Currently One-Stop Career Centers, workforce boards, and states are struggling with how to solicit and incorporate this important input into the planning process. The following is offered as a tool to help involve customers with disabilities as One-Stop centers are developed. This brief is part of a series of products offering practical solutions for state and local entities as they …

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Gatherings No. 32 Winter 2003, Friends Of The University Libraries Jan 2003

Gatherings No. 32 Winter 2003, Friends Of The University Libraries

Gatherings: Friends of the University Libraries Newsletter

Complete issue of Gatherings no. 32. Edited by Laurel Grotzinger.

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Book Review Of Science At The American Frontier: A Biography Of Dewitt Bristol Brace By David Cahan And M. Eugene Rudd, Robinson Yost Jan 2003

Book Review Of Science At The American Frontier: A Biography Of Dewitt Bristol Brace By David Cahan And M. Eugene Rudd, Robinson Yost

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Though not among the most influential American physicists of the late 19th century, DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859-1905) played significant roles in creating the Department of Physics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and in developing extremely sensitive instrumentation attempting to measure the motion of the hypothetical ether relative to the Earth (more commonly called "ether drift"). As the book's title suggests, another of its major themes is the transmission of scientific knowledge, physics in particular, from German and East Coast American universities to the remoteness of the Great Plains. It is within this contextual framework that Science at the American …

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Book Review Of Geoarchaeology In The Great Plains Edited By Rolfe D. Mandel, John Wyckoff Jan 2003

Book Review Of Geoarchaeology In The Great Plains Edited By Rolfe D. Mandel, John Wyckoff

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This volume emerged from the 1992 symposium "Geoarchaeological Research in the Great Plains: A Historical Perspective" held in conjunction with the fiftieth annual meeting of the Plains Anthropological Society in Lincoln, Nebraska. Edited by the symposium's organizer, it includes an introduction and summary by Mandel and seven chapters covering portions of the Great Plains. Areas identified and contributing authors include the Southern High Plains (Vance T. Holliday), the Southern Osage Plains (C. Reid Ferring), Kansas and Northern Oklahoma (Rolfe D. Mandel), Eastern Plains and Prairies (E. Arthur Bettis), Nebraska (David W. May), the Northwestern Plains (John Albanese), and the Northern …

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Book Review Of Plains Indian Rock Art By James D. Keyser And Michael A. Klassen, Jack Steinbring Jan 2003

Book Review Of Plains Indian Rock Art By James D. Keyser And Michael A. Klassen, Jack Steinbring

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

While its title purports the work to cover the North American Plains, it is, in fact, almost entirely restricted to the northwest Plains. There is a constant effort to attempt iconographic relationships with other areas, including the Columbia Plateau, the Eastern Woodlands, and Precambrian Shield, with inevitably debatable conclusions. Its basic contribution is its highly ambitious effort to synthesize and integrate the full body of northwestern Plains rock art both culturally and chronologically. Although the approach to cultural determinations in the archaeological past and their continuity into identifiable groups in historic times is probably more explicit and definitive than the …

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Book Review Of The War On Weeds In The Prairie West: An Environmental History By Clinton L. Evans, Ian Morrison Jan 2003

Book Review Of The War On Weeds In The Prairie West: An Environmental History By Clinton L. Evans, Ian Morrison

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

A book written by an environmental historian who proclaims that weeds are "more than vegetative shadows of capitalist farmers" but instead "both products of and participants in culture" is bound to stimulate an interest in and reaction to his work. The War on Weeds does just that. It is both informative and provocative in broaching a subject most people would easily dismiss as irrelevant to the settlement of the West.

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Book Review Of Crossing The 49th Parallel: Migration From Canada To The United States, 1900- 1930 By Bruno Ramirez, John Lehr Jan 2003

Book Review Of Crossing The 49th Parallel: Migration From Canada To The United States, 1900- 1930 By Bruno Ramirez, John Lehr

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The boundary of Canada and the United States is celebrated as the longest undefended border in the world. Despite its length and seeming prominence in North American history, only recently has the border received more than passing attention from historians and geographers. In his insightful and carefully documented book, Bruno Ramirez contends that this is partly because migrants from the United States to Canada, and from Canada to the United States passed through a porous border until the 1900s. With the exception of French Canadians migrating from Quebec to New England, Canadian immigrants did not create the kinds of ethnic …

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Book Review Of Prairie Wetland Ecology: The Contribution Of The Marsh Ecology Research Program Edited By Henry R. Murkin, Arnold G. Van Der Valk, And William R. Clark, Gary Krapu Jan 2003

Book Review Of Prairie Wetland Ecology: The Contribution Of The Marsh Ecology Research Program Edited By Henry R. Murkin, Arnold G. Van Der Valk, And William R. Clark, Gary Krapu

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Developing a thorough understanding of how prairie wetlands function is a daunting challenge. The Marsh Ecology Research Program (MERP) was initiated in response to the recommendation of Milt Weller that a team of specialists develop an experimental multidisciplinary research program to advance marsh management theory. Through the efforts of Bruce Batt, Pat Caldwell, Henry Murkin, and others, a research team was assembled and a long-term project carried out that ultimately led to nearly a hundred scientific papers, sixteen theses and dissertations, and this book.

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Book Review Of A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government In Canada By Dan Russell, Ross Gordon Green Jan 2003

Book Review Of A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government In Canada By Dan Russell, Ross Gordon Green

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The issue of achieving self-government has long been a concern of many Aboriginal people in Canada. Indian, Metis, and Inuit people were formally recognized in the Canadian constitution in 1982, when s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 proclaimed that the "existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal people of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed." But did this include the right to self-government?

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Bosnian Refugrees’ Adjustments To Resettlement In Grand Forks, North Dakota, Devon Hansen Jan 2003

Bosnian Refugrees’ Adjustments To Resettlement In Grand Forks, North Dakota, Devon Hansen

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Upheaval causes many people to flee intolerable conditions in their own countries and to seek better lives elsewhere. The United States plays a pivotal role in the resettlement of refugees uprooted by these crises. The refugee resettlement program in North Dakota primarily assists the refugees in making a better life, and it ultimately helps the state's quest for population growth, ethnic diversity, and economic development. This study deals with refugee resettlement in North Dakota communities, specifically Bosnian refugees in Grand Forks. Survey questionnaires and interviews were used to gain an understanding of the issues that the Bosnians face in adjusting …

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Book Review Of Saving Migrant Birds: Developing Strategies For The Future John Faaborg, Kenneth Able Jan 2003

Book Review Of Saving Migrant Birds: Developing Strategies For The Future John Faaborg, Kenneth Able

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The purported decline of populations of some of the most conspicuous and prized species of neotropical migrant birds has spawned something of a cottage industry. Beginning in the 1980s, many articles in the popular press, some of them wildly hyperbolic, predicted the imminent demise of much of North America's songbird fauna. One of the positive outcomes of this phenomenon has been a resurgence of research on migratory birds. In Saving Migratory Birds, John Faaborg takes a careful look at what we have learned in the two decades since the alarm was sounded and, just as important, what we still …

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Review Of The Nature Of Nebraska: Ecology And Biodiversity Paul A. Johnsgard, L. Lareesa Wolfenbarger Jan 2003

Review Of The Nature Of Nebraska: Ecology And Biodiversity Paul A. Johnsgard, L. Lareesa Wolfenbarger

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

As a newcomer to Nebraska and someone learning the natural history of this place, I thoroughly enjoyed The Nature of Nebraska. More consequentially, the book will serve as a valuable resource for longtime naturalists, teachers, and others who want to learn about Nebraska's natural history.

Opening with a discussion of geology and ecology, Johnsgard offers a broad overview of Nebraska's ecological diversity, intertwining material on the natural forces that have historically dominated the Plains with a discussion of the anthropogenic forces currently altering the region's unique ecological nature. Approximately half of the book is devoted to more specific descriptions …

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Review Of Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty And Federal Law By David E. Wilkins And K. Tsianinia Lomawaima, Blake A. Watson Jan 2003

Review Of Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty And Federal Law By David E. Wilkins And K. Tsianinia Lomawaima, Blake A. Watson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), Chief Justice John Marshall declared that Indian tribes should be acknowledged "as nations, ... having territorial boundaries, within which their authority is exclusive .... " Justice John McLean, however, questioned whether Indians would always exercise the power of self-government, suggesting that Indian tribes would "become amalgamated in our political communities."
Justice McLean did not dispute that Indian tribes were sovereign; he questioned whether they would-and should-remain sovereign. Some people continue to raise this question. David Wilkins and Tsianinia Lomawaima, in Uneven Ground, begin with the premise that American Indian tribes remain sovereign nations, but …

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Review Of Birds Of Nebraska: Their Distribution And Temporal Occurrence By Roger S. Sharpe, W. Ross Silcock, And Joel G. Jorgensen, David L. Swanson Jan 2003

Review Of Birds Of Nebraska: Their Distribution And Temporal Occurrence By Roger S. Sharpe, W. Ross Silcock, And Joel G. Jorgensen, David L. Swanson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Several books regarding the status and distribution of the birds of Nebraska have appeared since 1980, including annotated checklists (Paul Johnsgard, A Preliminary List of the Birds of Nebraska and Adjacent Great Plains States [1980]; Johnsgard, The Birds of Nebraska and Adjacent Plains States [1997]; T. E. Bray et al., The Birds of Nebraska: A Critically Evaluated List [1986]) and treatments of breeding birds (James E. Ducey and Johnsgard, Nebraska Birds: Breeding Status and Distribution [1988]), but none of these is a truly comprehensive account of the state's avifauna. The current volume is aimed at just such a niche and …

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Review Of Tiger Beetles Of Alberta: Killers On The Clay, Stalkers On The Sand By John Acorn, Stephen Spomer, William Allgeier Jan 2003

Review Of Tiger Beetles Of Alberta: Killers On The Clay, Stalkers On The Sand By John Acorn, Stephen Spomer, William Allgeier

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

John Acorn has taken a nontraditional, perhaps even a little eccentric, approach to this first volume in a series on Alberta insects. Well known for his television series Acorn: The Nature Nut, the author draws on his expertise to give us a colorful and informative examination of tiger beetles, masterfully expelling scientific jargon along the way and replacing it with more user-friendly terminology.

Acorn opens with a personal account of how he got involved in "tiger beetling," adding folklore-including colorful terms such as "chicken choker" (apparently a Southeastern US term for tiger beetles)-to his account as well as warnings …

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Review Of Water On The Great Plains: Issues And Policies Edited By Peter 1. Longo And David W. Yoskowitz, Alan R. Smith Jan 2003

Review Of Water On The Great Plains: Issues And Policies Edited By Peter 1. Longo And David W. Yoskowitz, Alan R. Smith

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

The centrality of water scarcity on the region's public agenda, the correlative need for preservation, and the policies and laws resulting from these circumstances are basic to the concerns of Water on the Great Plains. The book makes a valuable contribution to the study of equity in water rights, its ten chapters offering an accurate overview of the equity issue from several perspectives: geographical, historical, political, and cultural. A complex inquiry, the work provokes further thought-especially on the issue of negotiation and compromise.

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Review Of On The Backroad To Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish And Brethren By Donald B. Kraybill And Carl F. Bowman, Royden Loewen Jan 2003

Review Of On The Backroad To Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish And Brethren By Donald B. Kraybill And Carl F. Bowman, Royden Loewen

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This is a model ethnography of four pacifist, Christian sectarian groups, each refusing to conform to the urbanizing, consumption-driven, individualistic society of modern times. The groups are European in origin, historically self-conscious, and descended, either directly or indirectly, from the sixteenth-century radical wing of the Reformation, the Anabaptists. They are the progeny of "old immigrants" who arrived in North America in various migration waves between 1711 and 1874. Their frequent censure of modern technology, use of non-conformist plain dress, and life in close-knit and self-sufficient communities have made them highly noticeable. Adding to their visibility, they have become romanticized as …

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Review Of Kill And Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain By Ian Maclachlan, Michael J. Broadway Jan 2003

Review Of Kill And Chill: Restructuring Canada's Beef Commodity Chain By Ian Maclachlan, Michael J. Broadway

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Most North Americans are meat eaters but few care to ask where their meat comes from or how it is produced. Kill and Chill answers those questions from a Canadian perspective by chronicling the development of Canada's beef industry during the twentieth century.
Canadian beef processing shares many similarities with its US counterpart. At the beginning of the 1900s cattle were raised on the Plains and Prairies and shipped eastwards in railcars to be sold in stockyards, then slaughtered in multi-species packinghouses. Chicago became the prototypical meatpacking town with its sprawling stockyards and packinghouse district, a pattern later emulated in …

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Review Of Rare Vascular Plants Of Alberta By Linda Kershaw, Joyce Gould, Derek Johnson, And Jane Lancaster, Donna Cherniawsky Jan 2003

Review Of Rare Vascular Plants Of Alberta By Linda Kershaw, Joyce Gould, Derek Johnson, And Jane Lancaster, Donna Cherniawsky

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This book is a marvelous addition to the literature on rare vascular plants of Alberta and certainly the most comprehensive. It is itself rare through its inclusion of descriptions, illustrations, photographs, and distribution maps with species lists of rare vascular plants. The editors and many contributors have done magnificent work demonstrating that rare plant information is not static, but always changing as the status of rare plants is continually reviewed with new documentation. An appeal is even made to readers to enhance their awareness and assist with documentation of new rare plant sightings for subsequent status review and conservation. Clearly, …

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Review Of Saskatchewan Politics: Into The Twenty-First Century Edited By Howard A. Leeson, Joseph Garcea Jan 2003

Review Of Saskatchewan Politics: Into The Twenty-First Century Edited By Howard A. Leeson, Joseph Garcea

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Somewhat broader than its title suggests, the book focuses not merely on Saskatchewan politics, but also on the province's governing institutions, public policies, and political, economic, and social development. Its first half is devoted to key political institutions, including the legislature, the monarchy, the cabinet, the public service, the judiciary, and parts of the party and electoral systems. The other half addresses an array of political, social, and economic developments that have occurred primarily during the past two decades involving economic and financial management, elections, politics and the media, federal-provincial relations, and the role of First Nations in the province's …

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Review Of Consumers In The Country: Technology And Social Change In Rural America By Ronald R. Kline, Barbara Handy-Marchello Jan 2003

Review Of Consumers In The Country: Technology And Social Change In Rural America By Ronald R. Kline, Barbara Handy-Marchello

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Ronald Kline examines the acquisition and use of automobiles, electricity, telephones, and radios among farm families from the early twentieth century to 1960. He builds his argument around the tension between farm folk and the forces of urbanization in cities and towns, federal agencies such as REA and Extension Services, and corporations that manufactured and sold various technologies. While purveyors of machines and energy expected they would initiate urbanization of rural social and economic relationships, and that farm families who adopted them would therefore become modern, farmers resisted both the technologies and the assumptions of urbanization until they found the …

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Review Of The Agricultural Revolution Of The 20th Century By Don Paarlberg And Philip Paarlberg, Lowell Hardin Jan 2003

Review Of The Agricultural Revolution Of The 20th Century By Don Paarlberg And Philip Paarlberg, Lowell Hardin

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

This perceptive, richly illustrated yet compact book is a real jewel. Its span is broad, briefly reaching back to the turn of the century, then carefully documenting the development of modern industrial agriculture. It does not stop there, however. After showing us how the unprecedented scientific and technological advances of the twentieth century triggered the agricultural revolution, it moves on to international dimensions and the functioning of US public agricultural policies. Then, against this storybook background, the authors share their gaze into the twenty-first century.

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Review Of Writing Off The Rural West: Globalization, Governments, And The Transformation Of Rural Communities Edited By Roger Epp And Dave Whitson, K. K. Klein Jan 2003

Review Of Writing Off The Rural West: Globalization, Governments, And The Transformation Of Rural Communities Edited By Roger Epp And Dave Whitson, K. K. Klein

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Emerging from a conference on globalization and rural communities held in Edmonton in 1997, Writing Off the West's seventeen chapters (plus a short afterword by prominent rural activist Nettie Wiebe) focus on the decline of rural communities in western Canada and the difficulties some rural people face when adapting to socioeconomic changes caused by globalization and freer international markets.

Most of the volume's twenty-four authors specialize in sociology, geography, political science, and history. Curiously, not one of them has any background in agricultural economics, a discipline that has studied issues pertaining to family farms, rural economies, and globalization intensively throughout …

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Letters To The Editor, Ralph Grossi, William Parton, Myron Gutmann Jan 2003

Letters To The Editor, Ralph Grossi, William Parton, Myron Gutmann

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences

Letters to the Editor

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The Journal Of Undergraduate Research: Volume 01 Jan 2003

The Journal Of Undergraduate Research: Volume 01

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

This is the complete issue of the South Dakota State University Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 1.

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