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When Ben and Herbie, two fourteen-year-old friends, are coerced into enrolling at Loozer Prep by their pushy fathers, they meet with one misadventure after another: a scary dorm master, unexplained faculty accidents, and bizarre student behavior. The boys suspect foul play and turn detective, only to end up at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft. Will their oxygen run out? Will they survive to discover who's behind it all and why?

To what extent are terrorism and development related? What are the relative weights of the economic, political, and social aspects of development? What is the development impact of different responses to terrorism? This volume addresses these crucial questions, synthesizing what we know about the development links with terrorism and pointing out what we do not. Contributors to this volume examine the economic and fiscal costs of terrorism and the response to terrorism. They conclude that the economic costs of terrorism in rich countries are low, relative to the economic costs of combating...