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“The State of Metropolitan America is a signature effort of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program that portrays the demographic and social trends shaping the nations essential economic and societal units its large metropolitan areas and discusses what they imply for public policies to secure prosperity for these places and their populations. This report …
News release: “The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year SDR 26.4 billion (30 billion) Stand-By Arrangement for Greece in support of the authorities economic adjustment and transformation program. This front-loaded program makes SDR 4.8 billion (about 5.5 billion) immediately available to Greece from the IMF as part of joint …
New on LLRX.com – Forensic Evidence and the CSI Effect: The media’s popularization of certain types of evidence may be inspiring a “CSI effect” on decision makers according to Ken Strutin. There is a question about whether impressions created by the media in its treatment and portrayal of forensic proof as either irrefutable or absolutely …
LLRX.com: Knowledge Discovery Resources 2010 – An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation: Marcus P. Zillman’s latest guide is a touchstone from which all researchers seeking comprehensive, reliable and diverse resources for knowledge discovery via the Internet can benefit. The key is to be able to find the important knowledge discovery resources and sites both in …
CBO Monthly Budget Review – May 2010. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for March and the Daily Treasury Statements for April 2010. “In the first seven months of fiscal year 2010, the federal government incurred a budget deficit of about $800 billion, the same as the shortfall at the same point in 2009, CBO …
“This report, Ordinary Measures, Extraordinary Results: An Assessment of Foiled Plots Since 9/11, analyzes 32 attacks that were thwarted since 9/11 to determine which factors led to the plots successful disruption. The report finds that in the majority of cases, traditional law enforcement techniques and methods developed prior to 9/11, direct and indirect action by …
Follow up to previous postings on atrazine, a new report via the The Natural Resources Defense Council, Still Poisoning the Well – Atrazine Continues to Contaminate Surface Water and Drinking Water in the United States: “Banned in the European Union and clearly linked to harm to wildlife and potentially to humans, the pesticide atrazine provides …
Pet Ownership and Exercise Among Midlife and Older Adults: An AARP Bulletin Poll, April 2010 “Results of this AARP Bulletin poll lend some support to the notion of a positive relationship between pet ownership and exercise among pet owners, although the magnitude of relationship is not entirely clear. While about three in ten dog owners …
LLRX.com: Are You SharePoint-Ready? Lorette S.J. Weldon explores how “ready” are librarians to use SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010? She asks: do you consider yourself an IT Librarian or a non-IT Librarian, an answer that can be part of your job description. She reviews results from a survey presented at Computers in Libraries 2010, with …
EPIC: “The Senate unanimously passed the Faster FOIA Act of 2010, introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John Cornyn (R-TX), that will establish a 16-member commission to determine methods for reducing delays in processing FOIA requests. Government reports reveal substantial delays in disclosing records subject to the open government law. The legislation seeks to …
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Hearing, The Shadow Banking System, May 5-6, 2010 Day 1 | Day 2 Testimony of Christopher Cox, Former Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, May 5, 2010: “The shadow banking system helped to spread this contagion to institutions in every sector from commercial banks …
