Legislative reports: Assemblee Nationale Quebec.
When the Assembly adjourned on 19 December 2002, 37 public bills, 7 private bills and 4 public Members' private bills, had been passed since the resumption of proceedings on 15 October 2002. Among the bills adopted were the following: * the Act to combat poverty...

Mission helps people, peppers bloom: programs' influences far reaching.
Winterveldt, South Africa A MID ROW UPON row of beautiful, healthy, uniform pepper plants, one or two stand out for their sad, shriveled appearance. Something has gone wrong with these two and the problem will quickly be investigated. These lush green peppers are thriving in...

Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada.
Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada. Tanya Basok. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 168 pp. $75.00 hc; $27.95 sc. Cet ouvrage expose les resultats d'une recherche menee aupres de travailleurs saisonniers d'origine mexicaine oeuvrant dans la region de Leamington en Ontario. A partir d'entrevues menees...

The peasants in early Turkish literature.
In the Turkey of the 1930s, the peasants and villages had been a major concern and interest for the Republican intellectuals. As a matter of fact, a peasantist discourse, the so-called koyculuk, was widely accepted and disseminated by the Republican elites. This phenomenon could be observed in the activities...

Looming famine. (Africa).
Southern and Eastern Africa -- Millions of people in eastern and southern Africa are facing starvation unless international aid agencies can intervene. The food shortage is a consequence of a poor maize harvest caused by drought and floods. Adequate nutrition is especially important for those suffering from HIV/AIDS and...

War on terror or on human rights? (Currents).
Since the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last year, governments around the world have proclaimed 'war on terror'. The effects on Afghanistan and (to a lesser extent) Iraq have been widely reported. Less attention is being given to the war's worldwide ramifications: the...

The Oxford Companion to United States History.
Edited by Paul S. Boyer. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xliv, 940. $60.00, ISBN 0-19-508209-5.) When the previous edition of this important reference work was published in 1966 (then titled a companion to American history), one author, Thomas H. Johnson, wrote all of the...

ARABS-ISRAEL - Nov. 6 - Militant Kills 2 In Gaza.
Ismail Mashour, a 25-year-old Palestinian militant, opens fire in the settlement of Rafih Yam in the southern Gaza Strip, killing two people and wounding a third in a brief shooting spree before he is killed by a settlement security official. Kobi Hadad, Rafih Yam security officer, told reporters after...

Napa Valley grape growers. (Brief).
Napa Valley grape growers have voted to tax themselves $7.76 per acre to pay for operation of the county's 177-bed farmworker housing system and to build more units for farm laborers. About 80% of the vineyard owners who participated in the mail-in balloting voted for the tax. ...

A variety of housing. (In Brief).
A variety of housing, conservation and other land use programs were hit in the annual "May revise" of the state budget. Gov. Davis proposed reducing the Housing and Community Development budget by $27.9 million, including a $11.5 million cut in the Farmworker Housing Program. The proposed 2002-03...