Day archives: February 16th, 2007

Boxer to Introduce Passengers' Bill of Rights

Press release, February 15, 2007: “Following incidents at JFK and Austin airports where passengers were forced to remain on planes for as long as 11 hours, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today announced that she is planning to introduce a “Passengers’ Bill of Rights” in the Senate to ensure that air travelers are not unnecessarily …

Subjects: Congress

DHS Forms Partnership with NSF for Academic Research Initiative on Domestic Nuclear Detection

DHS press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently issued a potential $58 million, over five years, in grant opportunities for colleges and universities that will focus on detection systems, individual sensors or other research relevant to the detection of nuclear weapons, …

Subjects: Government Documents

Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century

“The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries