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Know Thine Enemy – Why the Taliban Cannot Be Flipped, by Barbara Elias, Director of the Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Taliban Project at the National Security Archive at George Washington University. “The chief objective of both Taliban groupings is to control territory in Central and South Asia. Al Qaedas agenda, meanwhile, is diffuse, global, and inherently …
Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General, OIG-10-01 – CBP’s Ability to Detect Biological and Chemical Threats in Maritime Cargo Containers (Redacted) (PDF, 19 pages) “U.S. Customs and Border Protection has taken steps to mitigate the threat of nuclear and radiological weapons in maritime cargo containers, but could do more to mitigate the threats …
The Government Domain: A Handful of Classics – Peggy Garvin has updated her directory of useful government information resources online, the e-Government and Web Directory: U.S. Federal Government Online. Her research has found that federal web sites do not change as rapidly as users believe. The content on these sites is dynamic, constantly being refreshed …
Follow up to postings on driving distractions and texting, see the UK Definitive Sentencing Guideline Causing death by driving which includes the following: “Using a hand-held mobile phone when driving is, in itself, an unlawful act; the fact that an offender was avoidably distracted by using a hand-held mobile phone when a causing death …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today announced it is issuing $87,430,000 in proposed penalties to BP Products North America Inc. for the company’s failure to correct potential hazards faced by employees. The fine is the largest in OSHA’s history. The prior largest total penalty, $21 million, was …
“The country will never be able to contain rates of chronic diseases and health care costs until we find ways to keep Americans healthier. But right now, Americans are not as healthy as they could be or should be. Two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. The childhood obesity epidemic is putting todays youth on …
As the book changes form, the library must champion its own power basereaders, By Tom Peters: “The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for learning, for work, and for pleasure may be …
Personal Finances: The Final Frontier for Social Media Results of a National Survey of Young Adults, conducted for AARP October 2009 “AARP conducted a study on young people, social media, and finances to support development of the LifeTuner website: a new expert-backed site sponsored by AARP that aims to provide a simple roadmap to help …
Strategy for gender mainstreaming in the Employment Sector for the implementation of the ILO Action Plan for Gender Equality 2008-09 / International Labour Office. – Geneva: ILO, 2009, 24 p. [Stuart Basefsky] “Gender equality is at the centre of the Employment Sectors mission to promote productive employment and decent work for men and women. As …
AP: Analysis of Positions Created by the 2009 Recovery Act – use drop-down menus to choose industry and respective state. Thereafter, mouse-over map to see data on jobs in specific counties. Related postings on financial system related postings on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Different Measures for Analyzing Current Proposals to Reform Health Care, October 30, 2009. Letter to the Honorable Max Baucus Preliminary Analysis of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, October 29, 2009. Letter to the Honorable Charles B. Rangel Note: H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, is 1990 pages long (PDF)
