Zwei Leben, verbunden, aber durch die Zeit getrennt. Eine Liebe, so stark, dass sie Raum und Zeit überwindet. Schottland, 2019: Als sich die Schriftstellerin Sophie Meinhardt in den Highlands verirrt und dabei dem attraktiven Hotelerben Hamish MacGregor begegnet, knistert es gewaltig. Zu Sophies Enttäuschung bringt der begehrteste Junggeselle des Glens sie aber nur zurück ins Tal. Er scheint wesentlich weniger an ihr interessiert zu sein als angenommen. Doch so schnell gibt Sophie nicht auf. 416 Jahre später. Auf der zerstörten Erde ist Oberst Tammes Duncan mitverantwortlich für die Durchführung der wichtigsten Mission der Menschheitsgeschichte: das Umsiedeln auf einen neuen Planeten. Doch Duncan verfolgt auch seinen eigenen Plan. Er will ins Jahr 2019 zurückkehren und die Schriftstellerin Sophie Meinhardt entführen. Jetzt scheint er seinem Ziel nah, denn es ist ihm gelungen, die Technologie zu entwickeln, die das Reisen durch die Zeit möglich macht. Aber was ist, wenn die Zeit nicht alle Wunden heilt, sondern neue schafft? Jessie Coe ist das Pseudonym der Autorin Nicole Fünfstück und steht für Bücher mit explizit beschriebenen Liebesszenen.

This report presents an evaluation of Neighborhood Court, a restorative justice diversion program run by the District Attorney in San Francisco. A randomized trial indicates that the program reduces recidivism (although this result is statistically insignificant), a discrete choice experiment shows demand and public willingness to pay for its features, and a qualitative analysis demonstrates positive perceptions of the program among stakeholders.

Researchers developed cost-estimating tools and estimated future construction costs for Puerto Rico's recovery from Hurricane María. This report documents their approach, data, findings, and recommendations.

Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this report provides an evidence review and new analyses of the effects of granting legal status to marriages of same-sex couples in the United States.

Hurricanes that make landfall cause significant upheaval, with recovery often requiring substantial resources. Appropriately sizing and allocating those resources requires knowledge, not only of the overall effects of a hurricane, but also of the differential effects across impacted areas. We employ the synthetic control method at the county level on a storm-by-storm basis to analyze both the across- and within-storm dispersion of the labor market effects of hurricanes. We use storm data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Events database, which covers Atlantic Basin storms from 1996 to Hurricane Michael in 2018, and county-month labor market data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS). For each county that was significantly impacted by a hurricane, we define a pool of potential donor counties that consists of non-neighboring counties from within the same state that themselves were not severely impacted by any hurricane. Our outcome of interest is the county-level unemployment rate from LAUS. Our results indicate that pre-storm match quality varies widely both by storm and within storm, indicating that not all hurricane impacted counties have a suitable counter-factual from other counties within the same state. Additionally, we use a case study to highlight significant within-storm heterogeneity across counties in the employment effects of a single hurricane. These findings suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach may be ill-suited to analyzing or responding to the effects of natural disasters.

A future price forecast can help the Federal Emergency Management Agency and communities seeking its Public Assistance estimate construction costs. Researchers created a framework for determining when such a forecast could be useful.

The authors examine compensation differences for gender, racial, and ethnic groups in the Department of Defense civilian science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce and explore ways to address these differences.

With the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war, there are questions about whether the "sea of goodwill" toward U.S. veterans may be ebbing. Data from the nationally representative RAND American Life Panel collected in July-September 2021 reveal what benefits and services Americans think the U.S. government should provide to veterans and how much they would be willing to pay in taxes to fund this support.