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“During the 77 days from the election to the Inauguration, Brookings experts will offer twelve Memos to the President on these policy priorities, starting with climate change and expanding across the spectrum of domestic and global challenges. Weekly events will discuss the factors accelerating (or inhibiting) progress, and the conversation will continue with research, commentary …
Bureau of Land Management: Effective Long-Term Options Needed to Manage Unadoptable Wild Horses, GAO-09-77, October 09, 2008 Aviation and the Environment: Initial Voluntary Airport Low Emissions Program Projects Reduce Emissions, and FAA Plans to Assess the Program’s Overall Performance as Participation Increases, GAO-09-37, November 07, 2008 Energy Efficiency: Potential Fuel Savings Generated by a National …
News release: “A court ruled today that the National Security Archive may proceed with its effort to force the White House to recover millions of Bush Administration Executive Office of the President (EOP) e-mail records before the presidential transition. Rejecting the government’s motion to dismiss the Archive’s lawsuit, the Court ruled that the Federal Records …
Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, Volume III: “Arbor Networks®, Inc., in cooperation with the Internet security operations community, has completed the third edition of an ongoing series of annual operational security surveys. This survey, covering a 12-month period from July 2006 through June 2007, is designed to provide data useful to network operators so that they …
Inside Obama’s Sweeping Victory, November 5, 2008: “Barack Obama captured the White House on the strength of a substantial electoral shift toward the Democratic Party and by winning a number of key groups in the middle of the electorate. Overall, 39% of voters were Democrats while 32% were Republicans — a dramatic shift from 2004 …
Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion, October 2008 – Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko, Brandon Enright, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Vern Paxson Stefan Savage “The conversion rate of spam the probability that an unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a sale underlies the entire spam value proposition. However, our understanding of this …
News release: “The U.S. Department of Education today launched U.S.A. Learns, a free Web site to help immigrants learn English. The Web site, which is located at www.USALearns.org, provides approximately 11 million adults who have low levels of English proficiency with easily accessible and free English language training.”
Dan Farber, CNET News: “Obama will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety of our networks and will lead an interagency effort, working with chief technology and chief …
News release: “The 2,000-strong community of Census of Marine Life scientists from 82 nations today announced astonishing examples of recent new finds from the worlds ocean depths. As more than 700 delegates gather for the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (Valencia, Spain Nov. 11-15), organized by the Censuss European affiliate program on Marine Biodiversity and …
Washington Post: “Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.” …
Change.gov: “Throughout the Presidential Transition Project, this website will be your source for the latest news, events, and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama Administration. And just as this historic campaign was, from the beginning, about you — the transition process will offer you opportunities to participate in redefining …
Energy Information Administration, Domestic Uranium Production Report – Quarterly Data for 3rd Quarter 2008: “U.S. production of uranium concentrate was 980,933 pounds U3O8, down 9 percent from the previous quarter, and down 9 percent from the third quarter 2007.”
