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Rand Reports on Post-Deployment Stress

Post-Deployment Stress: What You Should Know, What You Can Do – April 17, 2008 – “Covers information about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and other emotional and behavioral problems, e.g., depression and substance abuse, that veterans may face following deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.” Post-Deployment Stress: What Families Should Know, What Families …

Subjects: Government Documents

Recent CRS Reports: Supreme Court and the Second Amendment, Tibet, Food Price Inflation

April 11, 2008 – District of Columbia v. Heller: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment – “In Parker v. District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that provisions of the D.C. Code that prohibit persons from keeping handguns in their home …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Comparing Alternative U.S. Counterterrorism Strategies: Can Assumption-Based Planning Help Elevate the Debate?

Rand Report – Comparing Alternative U.S. Counterterrorism Strategies Can Assumption-Based Planning Help Elevate the Debate? By: Robert J. Lempert, Horacio R. Trujillo, David Aaron, James A. Dewar, Sandra H. Berry, Steven W. Popper. “The United States faces the challenge of countering the terrorism threat. Frequently, both expert decision makers and lay citizens have trouble assessing …

Subjects: Government Documents

Earth Day, April 22, 2008

EPA: “On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe. Through the combined efforts of the U.S. government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Economic and Housing Rescue Legislation Introduced in the House

News release: “In response to the nationwide economic downturn caused by the housing and credit crisis, members of the House Financial Services Committee today introduced legislation to combat the unprecedented rise in foreclosures, and the associated impact on cities and states. The legislation first announced by Chairman Barney Frank in March, will be divided into …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation

Freedom of the Cyber Seas – U.S. Cybersecurity Policy

Freedom of the Cyber Seas – “How lessons from the U.S. government’s response to pirates in the early 1800s can help the next president of the United States improve information security,” Aaron Turner & Michael Assante, April 10, 2008. “In modern times, the nearly ubiquitous availability of powerful computing systems, along with the proliferation of …

Subjects: PC Security

Nalgene to Phase Out Production of Consumer Bottles Containing BPA

Follow up to April 15, 2008 posting, National Toxicology Program Draft Brief on Bisphenol A…”Bisphenol A can migrate into food from food and beverage containers with internal epoxy resin coatings and from consumer products made of polycarbonate plastic such as baby bottles, tableware, food containers, and water bottles…” – this news release, April 18, 2008: …

Subjects: Government Documents

Wireless Recycling Guide

ReCellular: “You can make a difference with cell phone recycling. Help our environment and the planet. Help a charity and a person in need. Hundreds of millions of used cell phones are taken out of service each year around the world as new innovations reach the marketplace. One in three Americans will replace their cell …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Google News Adds New Quotes Feature

Google News Blog: “As part of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information, we’ve been hard at work making quotations in news articles easy to search and browse. You can now more easily keep track of what your favorite politician, actor or sports star is saying. You can even search within their quotes for specific …

Subjects: Search Engines

CIA Proposed Rule Modifying Freedom of Information Act Procedures

“Consistent with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), as amended by the Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007, and Executive Order 13392, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has undertaken and completed a review of its public FOIA regulations that govern certain aspects of its processing of FOIA requests. As a result …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation