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Teens and Mobile Phones – Text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends, April 20, 2010 “Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily …
Follow up to previous postings on childhood and adolescent obesity, this new report: Too Fat to Fight – Retired Military Leaders Want Junk Food Out of Americas Schools. A report by Mission: Readiness, Military Leaders for Kids, April 2010. “Mission: Readiness, an organization of retired senior military leaders, is warning Congress that at least nine …
Official Google Blog: “…it’s no surprise that Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content from our services. Of course many of these requests are entirely legitimate, such as requests for the removal of child pornography. We also regularly receive requests from law enforcement agencies to hand …
Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, April 20, 2010 – Quarterly Report to Congress Related postings on financial system
U.S. Initiatives to Promote Global Internet Freedom: Issues, Policy, and Technology. April 5, 2010 Modern means of communications, led by the Internet, provide a relatively inexpensive, open, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, pictures, and text around the world. In a political and human rights context, in closed societies when the more established, formal news …
Multilateral Development Banks: Overview and Issues for Congress, Rebecca M. Nelson, Analyst in International Trade and Finance, April 9, 2010 “The multilateral development banks (MDBs) include the World Bank and four smaller regional development banks: the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (AsDB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the …
News release: “The World Development Indicators (WDI) 2010, released today, gives a statistical progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The WDI database, launched along with the World Banks Open Data initiative to provide free data to all users, includes more than 900 indicators documenting the state of all the worlds economies. The WDI …
Nature.com – Q&a: What it will take to feed the world: “Marion Guillou is the chief executive of Frances National Institute for Agricultural Research, Europes largest agricultural-research agency. She talks to Declan Butler about how researchers are trying to meet the challenge of feeding a world population that is estimated to grow to 9 billion …
StopFraud.gov – Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force “What is the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force?: President Obama established the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force in November 2009 to hold accountable those who helped bring about the last financial crisis, and to prevent another crisis from happening.The task force is improving efforts across the government and …
“Reducing the intake of sodium is an important public health goal for Americans…Americans consume unhealthy amounts of sodium in their food, far exceeding public health recommendations. Consuming too much sodium increases the risk for high blood pressure, a serious health condition that is avoidable and can lead to a variety of diseases. Analysts estimate that …
Global Cyber Deterrence – Views from China, the U.S., Russia, India, and Norway by Tang Lan, Zhang Xin, Harry D. Raduege, Jr., Dmitry I. Grigoriev, Pavan Duggal, and Stein Schjølberg. Edited by Andrew Nagorski. April 2010 “Cybersecurity looms as the 21st centurys most vexing security challenge. The global digital economy hinges on a fragile system …
Death to PST Files, A Symantec Hosted Services Whitepaper: “Email is one of your companys most criticaland most widely usedassets. According to a 2009 study by The Radicati Group, the average corporate email user sends and receives 167 email messages per day. The report estimates that this number will increase to 219 messages per day …
