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Follow up to DOJ Report on Bush Administration Interrogation Memos and Related Documents, the New York Times reports: “Large batches of e-mail records from the Justice Department lawyers who worked on the 2002 legal opinions justifying the Bush administrations brutal interrogation techniques are missing, and the Justice Department told lawmakers Friday that it would try …
New York Times: “Health authorities do not have good figures on how many infections and deaths in the United States are caused by Gram-negative bacteria. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections, from all types of bacteria combined, cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year. But in …
Lead in to this headline as follows: The Nation: The Attack on Climate-Change Science New York Times Op-Ed – Al Gore: We Cant Wish Away Climate Change. See also related news from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change: “The IPCC has started work on the preparation of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). We are currently …
Bloomberg: “Google Inc. said it may spend as much as hundreds of millions of dollars on an experimental broadband service that offers Internet speeds 100 times faster than current networks. The cost of the test project, announced this month, isnt known and will depend on demographics, the lay of the land and the number of …
“The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Office of Management and Budget today released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 Financial Report of the United States Government (Report). The Report details the U.S. Government’s current financial position, as well as its short-term and long-term financial outlook, complementing the President’s Budget released earlier this month. This …
News release: “FinCEN [February 26, 2010] issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to amend the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) implementing regulations regarding the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). The FBAR form is used to report a financial interest in, or signature or other authority over, one or more financial accounts …
News release: “Six alternative measures of labor underutilization have long been available on a monthly basis from the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the United States as a whole. They are published in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly Employment Situation news release. The official concept of unemployment (as measured in the CPS by U-3 …
African American Experiences in the Economy: Recession Effects More Strongly Felt, February 2010 “This economic recession has had a devastating impact on the African American community. The survey, found that over the last 12 months, a third (33%) of African Americans 45+ had problems paying rent or mortgage, and 44% had problems paying for essential …
