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National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 254: “The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados. The documents suggest that the public relations push …
“The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings provide a globally recognised forum for the exchange of knowledge between Nobel Laureates and young researchers. The original idea of the meetings goes back to the two Lindau physicians Dr. Franz Karl Hein und Professor Dr. Gustav Parade and Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg, a member of the Swedish royal …
Congressional Budget Office: Updated Long-Term Projections for Social Security, August 21, 2008. “Today, Social Securitys revenues each year are greater than its outlays, but as the baby-boom generation (people born between 1946 and 1964) continues to age, growth in the number of Social Security beneficiaries will accelerate, and outlays will grow substantially faster than revenues. …
News release: “The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, was primarily due to fires, the Commerce Departments National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today following an extensive, three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation. …
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005, 07/08. Presents findings from the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005. NCJ 222181: “The nation’s nearly 400 publicly funded forensic crime laboratories perform a variety of forensic services, including DNA testing and controlled substance identification for federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The report examines the …
08-P-0235 EPA Decisions to Delete Superfund Sites Should Undergo Quality Assurance Review, [Report PDF – 59pp] [At a Glance PDF] “As of September 2007, EPA had deleted 322 sites from the National Priorities List (NPL). Among the eight sites we reviewed, documentation for the Agencys decision to delete three sites was not consistent with EPA …
News release: “The demographic divide the inequality in the population and health profiles of rich and poor countries is widening. Two sharply different patterns of population growth are evident: Little growth or even decline in most wealthy countries and continued rapid population growth in the worlds poorest countries. In 2008, world population is …
