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Follow up to previous postings on tainted pet food recalls see Lisa Wade McCormick, ConsumerAffairs.com: “Parties involved in the litigation surrounding the largest pet food recall in U.S. history — blamed for the deaths and illnesses of thousands of dogs and cats in North America — have agreed to settle the case for $24 million. …
Memorial Day – Have a a fun, safe, and memorable Memorial Day weekend using official U.S. government information.
Population Reference Bureau, State-by-State Costs of Child Poverty in the U.S. – by Kelvin Pollard (May 2008) “Research has shown that growing up in poverty leads to negative health, social, and economic consequences for children that often continue in adulthood. Compared with other children, children living below the poverty line are less healthy, have lower …
United Nations Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the United Nations, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-third Session Supplement No. 55 released May 23, 2008.
House Intelligence Committee Report on the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act, H.Rep. 110-665, May 21. The link and following, from Secrecy News: “The National Cyber Security Initiative, which is the single largest and most important initiative in next years budget, is being conducted under excessive classification, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) said in …
News release: “A key treaty that governs global civil nuclear liability marked an important milestone this week, as the United States ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) at IAEA headquarters in Vienna. Upon entry into force, the CSC would establish a uniform global legal regime for the compensation of victims in …
Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law, by Robert F. Blomquist “In most cultural contexts creativity is viewed as an unalloyed virtue. Law is different: given the inherently conservative and slow-moving pace of legal evolution, innovation in the law is viewed by many observers as problematic. Yet American …
IRS Issues Spring 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin: “The IRS releases the spring 2008 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring data from the 138.4 million individual tax returns filed for tax year 2006.”
Fact Sheet: Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Free and Fair Trade
2008 Summer Market and Reliability Assessment, May 15, 2008: “The reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system this summer, as forecasted by the planning authorities and reviewed by the Regional Entities and NERC is projected to be adequate. Extreme weather conditions and major outages of generation and transmission pose risks to reliability and where …
Via Google Blogoscoped, “Google [has a] malware diagnosis service; just append any domain your domain or another site you want to check on to the end of the URL google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=, or paste a domain in the box below, and you will find an overview page listing potential problems like trojans or exploits (or …
Transportation for Tomorrow: Report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, “prepared by a specially convened Commission, meets the charge given under Section 1909 of the Safe Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). The Report includes detailed recommendations for creating and sustaining a pre-eminent surface …
