The legal system will ultimately determine where much of the huge losses that will be occasioned by the Millennium Bug will land. Seemingly minor glitches, such as a computerized inventory control system's wrongfully rejecting an order of chemicals as expired since 1900 (when the real expiration date is in the year 2000) can create a myriad of lawsuits among manufacturers, suppliers, customers,...

We present a nucleon resonance analysis by simultaneously considering all pionand photon-induced experimental data on the final states γN , πN , 2πN , ηN , KΛ, KΣ, and ωN for energies from the nucleon mass up to √ s = 2 GeV. In this analysis we find strong evidence for various higher lying resonances as, e.g., the P13(1900). The ωN production mechanism is dominated by large P11(1710) and P13(19...

A new genus of Bruchinae, Buburra Reid & Beatson, is erected for a single new species, B. jeanae Reid & Beatson. Buburra is endemic to Australia where it is known from a single site at high altitude in Victoria. The hostplant is unknown. Buburra is placed in the tribe Pachymerini. A key is provided for identification of the 12 genera of Bruchinae in Australia, including Caryotrypes Decelle, 196...

Introduction. Although rare, tsunamis have the potential to cause considerable loss of life and injury as well as widespread damage to the natural and built environments. The objectives of this review were to describe the impact of tsunamis on human populations in terms of mortality, injury, and displacement and, to the extent possible, identify risk factors associated with these outcomes. This...

[1] Soil erosion is a key socio-economic and environmental problem in Kenya, which has been poorly documented due to the lack of long, continuous records. Here we present Ba/Ca records from Porites corals from the Malindi coral reef documenting the flux of suspended sediment from the Sabaki River with a sub-weekly resolution for the last 300 years. While sediment flux from the Sabaki River is a...

Birth years ranged from 1862 to 1938; 16 births occurred before 1900, 23 between 1900 and 1909, 19 between 1910 and 1919, 22 between 1920 and 1929, and five between 1930 and 1939. Comparison with national values showed that 70 (82%) of the musicians exceeded their life expectancy; four-fifths of the Black men, three fourths of the White men, and all the women lived longer than expected as shown...