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Lauren Weiner has written on Latin American affairs for the American Spectator,the Washington Times,and many other publications.     

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The hardened skin of memory, Lawrence L. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven CT/London: Yale University Press, 1991. xx+216pp. Notes. £16.50.     

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where he teaches business and public ethics. His most recent book, with William G. Scott, is Organizational Values in America,published by Transaction.     

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The road to the racial millenium: German medical science from 1870 to 1945

Paul Hoedeman, Hitler or Hippocrates:Medical Experiments and Euthanasia in the Third Reich. Lewes, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1991. 260pp. £12.95.

Michael H. Kater, Doctors Under Hitler. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. 426pp. $35.75.

Kolloquien des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte. Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1988. 110pp. DM 24.

Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik in der NS‐Zeit, ed. Norbert Frei. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1 991. Shriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte: Sondernummer. 331 pp. DM 68.

Benno Müller‐Hill, Murderous Science. Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies and Others: Germany 1933–1945. Oxford University Press, 1988. 208pp. £15.

Robert Proctor, Racial Hygiene. Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. 414pp. £25.25.

Paul Weindling, Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 641pp. £55.

Sheila Faith Weiss, Race, Hygiene and National Efficiency. The Eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987. 245pp. $54.     

Review essay: Spaces of political possibility

Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference. David Harvey, 1996. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 468 pp. £12.99 paperback. ISBN: 1 55786 681 3     

Williamson Murray's wars: A review essay

Williamson Murray, The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938–1939: The Path to Ruin (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984), pp. xix, 494, £33.50 or $50 (hb); £13.20 or $19.50 (pb).     

Border Security Technologies: Local and Regional Implications

The Bush administration's “Smart Border” accords with Mexico and Canada present a number of important implications for North America's border communities and regions. As part of the plans, new security technologies have emerged as the preferred policy solution to the difficult problem of screening for weapons and terrorist incursions into the United States through its international boundaries while maintaining flows of goods and individuals, key drivers of globalization and hallmarks of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) era. These new technological systems have various capabilities, ranging from prescreening cargo to identifying problematic travelers to detecting nuclear material in trucks. Deploying these systems in border communities, however, invokes a range of important economic, social, and political challenges, all of which are under examination in this work. Using a risk‐centered approach to United States border security, this article explores several technologically oriented border control systems: screening, biometrics, and information technology. The research is based on regional field research and a public policy analysis method that uses Birkland's “focusing event” framework, a model that provides insights into the postcrisis policy formation process. The article concludes by offering an initial appraisal of these policies within the context of risk, interdependent border communities, and an open democratic society.