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Negative Discount Rates for Health Insurance
This paper measures the discount rate of health insurance by surveying. a sample of nearly 1,000 Washington and Lee alumni. We calculated the discount rate from a series of open-ended survey questions, eliminating some of ... -
Negotiating with the Enemy: Kennedy and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Many scholars have examined the test ban. Several books were written shortly after its adoption, but they lack much of the documentary evidence that is now available. In 1981 Glenn Seaborg published one of the best accounts. ... -
Negro Disfranchisement in Georgia, 1898-1908
Any scholarly analysis of race relations inevitably becomes intertwined with subjective evaluations. Personal experience and considerable reading have taught me that the Negro, given equal opportunities, is fully the equal ... -
New Constraints on the Timing, Rate, and Style of Exhumation of the Wood Hills and Pequop Mountains, Elko County, Nevada (thesis)
In this study, zircon (U-Th)/He analysis is used to documents the timing, rate, and style of exhumation of the Wood Hills and Pequop Mountains, which are part of the Ruby Mountains-East Humboldt Range metamorphic core ... -
A New Optimism for Zip Code and Destiny: Promises and Limitations of Middle School Reform in Areas of Concentrated Poverty
This paper begins with the meaning and trends concerning educational disadvantage and high-poverty schools. I then provide an explanation for some of the factors—both external and internal to schools—that contribute to ... -
"The New Poetic Power": The Imaginative Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Traditional interpretors of literature might perceive little justification for discussing the poetry of the English Romanticist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who lived from 1772-1834, in conjunction with that of the German ... -
News Coverage - 1956 Mock Convention (audiorecording)
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Niche of a Generalist Apex Predator (presentation)
The case for the importance of predators in controlling structure and function of lower trophic levels in ecosystems has gained considerable currency in recent years. Predators control biodiversity through direct and ... -
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit: Baptism, Papal Orthodoxy, and Joachite Heresy
Nicola Pisano's Pisa Baptistery Pulpit has garnered a vast amount of art historical attention. The artist's use of a classical style provides a starting point for any discussion of the Renaissance. However, the identification ... -
Nietzsche's Forgotten Spirit: Woman in Nietzsche's Philosophy (thesis)
In this thesis, I will attempt first to show how some major themes in Nietzsche's philosophy such as the rejection of dualisms and capital-T truths make room for an interpretation that suggests many of the same ideas that ...