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A Trail of Bullet Casings Leads From Africas Wars Back to Iran: “For six years, a group of independent arms-trafficking researchers worked to pin down the source of the mystery cartridges. Exchanging information from four continents, they concluded that someone had been quietly funneling rifle and machine-gun ammunition into regions of protracted conflict, and had …
“A 60-person Federal Advisory Committee (The “National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee” or NCADAC) has overseen the development of this draft climate report. The NCADAC, whose members are available here (and in the report), was established under the Department of Commerce in December 2010 and is supported through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …
Equine Breakdown, Death, Injury and Incident Database. Search fields include: Horse Name; Year or Date; Trainer Last Name; Track; Jockey/Driver Last Name; Racing Type; Equine Deaths Only.
“As part of its overall efforts to ensure that the U.S. fishing industry isnt undermined by unsustainable or illegal activities, NOAA today submitted a Congressionally mandated report identifying 10 nations whose fishing vessels engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in 2011 or 2012, or had ineffective measures to prevent the unintended catch of …
Via Meredith Schwartz: “The archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced [January 9, 2013]. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks.”
“European banks remain at the heart of the euro area crisis. Despite actions to strengthen banks and build a banking union, confidence in the euro area banking system remains weak, and is likely to remain so until underlying concerns over low capitalisation of some banks are addressed. Low bank capitalisation persists in many countries despite …
