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Twenty top predictions for life 100 years from now: “Last week we asked readers for their predictions of life in 100 years time. Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900, many of you wrote in with your vision of the world in 2112. Many of the “strange, …
News release: “This report analyzes the results from a social metadata survey that focused on the motivations for creating a website, moderation policies, staffing and site management, technologies used, and criteria for assessing success. Metadata helps users locate resources that meet their specific needs. But metadata also helps us to understand the data we find …
The Iraq War, the Next War, and the Future of the Fat Man, by Stephen L. Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Yale Law School. January 16, 2012 – 64 Stan. L. Rev. Online 46 – Essays “Preemptive warfare is a form of self-defense that occurs when your adversary has the tanks massed on …
January 15, 2012 – “Subject: Information on the Zappos.com site – please create a new password. First, the bad news: We are writing to let you know that there may have been illegal and unauthorized access to some of your customer account information on Zappos.com, including one or more of the following: your name, e-mail …
Richard P, West K, Ku L (2012) The Return on Investment of a Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Program in Massachusetts. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29665. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029665 “Smoking is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States, resulting in an estimated 450,000 annual premature deaths, or nearly one of every five deaths. It is responsible for …
Report on Carcinogens, Twelfth Edition 2011. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program “The probability that a resident of the United States will develop cancer at some point in his or her lifetime is 1 in 2 for men and 1 in 3 for women (ACS 2010). Nearly everyones …
“The NTI Nuclear Materials Security Index – Building a Framework for Assurance, Accountability, and Action is a first-of-its-kind public benchmarking project of nuclear materials security conditions on a country-by-country basis. The NTI Index, prepared with the Economist Intelligence Unit, was created to spark an international discussion about priorities required to strengthen security, and most importantly, …
Unemployment Insurance and the Great Recession, Wayne Vroman, December 2011 “This issue brief examines the unprecedented funding problem of state unemployment insurance (UI) programs. The majority of UI programs (36 of 53) have borrowed, securing record loan amounts to maintain unemployment insurance benefit payments during 2009-2011. It identifies the causes of the funding problem, discusses …
Unemployment Statistics on Older Americans, Urban Institute Program on Retirement Policy, January 2012: “The recession has increased joblessness among older Americans. These graphs and tables report unemployment rates and how they have varied by age, sex, race, and education since 2007.” Related postings on financial system
Unauthorized Appropriations and Expiring Authorizations, January 13, 2012: “As required, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports each January to the Congress on the following: All programs and activities funded for the current fiscal year for which authorizations of appropriations have expired, and; All programs and activities for which authorizations of appropriations will expire during the …
