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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Critter Martin tries out the new "Undercover cat" self-contained, disposable litter box."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Gov. Henry Bellmon and the State Arts council of Oklahoma honored 27 arts leaders and organizations statewide Wednesday."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tulsa's Ozell Jones beats Rapid City's Grant Gondrezick, left, to the ball as Fast Breaker Ron Spivey, 30, blocks out the Thrillers' Mike Higgins in Tuesday's CBS game."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above, plant manager Robert Abernathy checks a giant roll of toilet tissue before it is cut."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The visual images of a Nazi concentration camp remain great and gruesome in Harry Guterman's memory. Never will he forget the tortures, the starvation, the long lines that divided in one direction to yet more agony, in the other to a gas chamber."

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The study is a contextual analysis of flood victimization. Victimization is defined as the social, psychological, and physiological aftermath experienced by victims of a disaster. Disaster researchers concentrate on the victims' characteristics to explain the varying degrees of their victimization, providing only ambiguous results. Theorists such as Kreps, Wildavsky, and Douglas contend that the outcomes of disasters are contingent upon social structure. This analysis treats victimization as one such outcome. The condition and behavior of individuals can be explained by the presence of disaster and the conditions of social organization. A model explains victimization based on individual's attributes (individual resources), his social environment, and the disaster characteristics. This study uses the 1984 Mingo Creek Flood Victims Survey data to test the model. The data contain information measuring victimization. The survey data are linked with 1980 Census tract data. The tract data provide indicators of the social networks. This tract information, the contextual variables, taps the social conditions, including poverty, unemployment, geographic mobility, and family patterns. This study uses factor analysis to identify the dimensions of victimization. Regression tests the relationship between the contextual variables, the individual resource variables, the disaster characteristic variables, and victimization. The results of the analysis show …

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "If someone hadn't already coined the phrase "all-around cowboy, " Dan Dailey would have made it necessary."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Contrary to popular belief not all great leapers were born with pogo sticks for legs."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rep. Kevin Easley, the bill's author, told other House members on Tuesday the bill would "set up an ethics law for state employees."

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Above, grand setting for a Rodin sculpture is the rotunda, centerpiece of a newly-opened $10 million improvement project at Philbrook Art Center."

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