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Center for Studying Health System Change: Striking Jump in Consumers Seeking Health Care Information, Tracking Report No. 20, August 2008, Ha T. Tu, Genna Cohen In 2007, 56 percent of American adultsmore than 122 million peoplesought information about a personal health concern, up from 38 percent in 2001, according to a new national study by …
Pew Internet and American Life Project – Podcast Downloading 2008, 8/28/2008, Mary Madden Sydney Jones “As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up …
Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG): Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (ISP-I-08-34) Aug 2008 [208 pages, Sensitive but Unclassified] “The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) successfully completed 54 new embassy compounds (NEC) and annex office buildings under the Construction Security Program, placing …
News release: “Senator Charles E. Schumer and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairman and Vice-Chair of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released statements in reaction to troubling new data from the U.S. Census Bureau on household incomes, health care coverage, and poverty. While wages have risen slightly from 2006 to 2007 and fewer families are without …
News release: “While health plans are developing tools to help consumers compare price and quality information across hospitals and physicians, the tools’ pervasiveness and usefulness are limited, according to a study released today by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). Responding to large employers’ interest in greater health care price and quality transparency, …
News release: “Department of Justice is revising its corporate charging guidelines for federal prosecutors throughout the country. The new guidance revises the Departments Principles of Federal Prosecution of Business Organizations, which govern how all federal prosecutors investigate, charge, and prosecute corporate crimes. The new guidelines address issues that have been of great interest to prosecutors …
Realizing the Global Promise of the Internet: The Future of Internet Governance, Constance Ledoux Book, Janna Quitney Anderson, Michele Hammerbacher, Anne Nicholson, Dannika Lewis, Eryn Gradwell, August 13, 2008.
News release: “UNODC’s Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008 shows a 19% decrease in opium cultivation to 157,000 hectares, compared to the record harvest of 193,000 in 2007. Owing to a higher yield of 48.8 kg/ha (up from 42.5 kg in 2007), opium production has dropped less dramatically, down 6% from 8,200 to 7,700. According to the …
U.S. Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District – Hurricane Protection System Improvements: “This page contains a computer animated overview and specific information about improvements that USACE is making to the Southern Louisiana Hurricane Protection System (HPS).” Related postings on Katrina
