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24 Hours at Fukushima – A blow-by-blow account of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, By Eliza Strickland / November 2011 [Editor’s Note: This is part of the IEEE Spectrum special report: Fukushima and the Future of Nuclear Power]. “The world’s three major nuclear accidents had very different causes, but they have one important thing …
News release: “A new World Bank Group initiative will help Brazils efforts to eradicate extreme poverty in the country, the World Bank announced today. The Banks Board approved a US$ 8 billion new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Brazil, which will guide the Groups overall program in the country for the fiscal years 2012-2015. The …
Charles M. Vest, National Academy of Engineering: The Next Generation Do we need more engineers? “The distinguished National Academy volunteers who wrote the influential report Rising Above the Gathering Storm believed that we need to increase the number of engineers graduating in this country. Not everyone agrees with this assessment and I am frequently asked, …
September 2011: The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas produces estimates of monthly payroll employment by Federal Reserve District. These data are now available to the public and will be updated monthly – Data for employment by Federal Reserve District “The 50 states and the District of Columbia are divided among 12 Federal Reserve districts. With …
News release: “A nationwide survey of the American people released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that anti-Semitic attitudes have risen slightly in America, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs continue to hold a vicegrip” on a small but not insubstantial segment of America. The ADL survey found that 15 percent of American’s nearly …
