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Press release: “…AirTight® Networks, the global leader for wireless intrusion prevention systems…issued the findings from its study to assess information security risk exposure of laptop users at fourteen airports in the United States, Canada and Asia. The company set out to understand the risks to business travelers and their corporate networks of data leakage while …
New York Times: On Thursday [March 20, 2008] Sports Illustrated “will introduce the Vault, a free site within SI.com that contains all the words Sports Illustrated has ever published [over 53 years] and many of the images, along with video and other material, in a searchable database.”
Follow up to previous postings on the status of protection for polar bears, this March 10, 2008 news release, “the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace sued the Bush administration for missing the legal deadline to issue a final decision on whether to list the polar bear under the …
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) press release: “Five years after the outbreak of the war in Iraq, the humanitarian situation in most of the country remains among the most critical in the world. Because of the conflict, millions of Iraqis have insufficient access to clean water, sanitation and health care. The current crisis …
“The Internal Revenue Service released a payment calendar today letting Americans know when they should expect their stimulus payment in the mail. For those who chose direct deposit on their 2007 tax returns, they will receive their stimulus payments through direct deposit starting May 2 and ending May 16. Those who will receive their payments …
Carnage and despair: Iraq five years on. Index Number: MDE 14/001/2008. Date Published: 17 March 2008. “Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is still in disarray. The human rights situation is disastrous, a climate of impunity has prevailed, the economy is in tatters and the refugee crisis continues to escalating. A …
DOJ OIG: Audit of the Department of Justice Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Processes, Audit Report 08-16, March 2008
Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain, GAO-08-384, February 15, 2008 Defense Acquisitions: Progress Made in Fielding Missile Defense, but Program Is Short of Meeting Goals, GAO-08-448, March 14, 2008 Global War on Terrorism: Reported Obligations …
Treasury International Capital (TIC) Data for January – Monthly Reports on Cross-Border Financial Flows (Billions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted)
PR Newswire: “Just two days after a new Washington Post national poll found that 59 percent of the American public supports restrictions identical to Washington, DC’s gun laws — which ban handgun possession and require that legally possessed rifles and shotguns be either disassembled or secured with a trigger lock — the U.S. Supreme Court …
Convergence in Global Food Demand and Delivery, By Anita Regmi, Hiroyuki Takeshima, and Laurian Unnevehr, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Report No. (ERR-56) 39 pages, March 2008: “Using food expenditures and food sales data over 1990-2004, this report examines whether food consumption and delivery trends are converging across 47 high- and middle-income countries. Middle-income …
“On March 17, CDC hosted the first of five Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regional meetings to discuss the Healthy People 2020 framework. Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. Since 1979, Healthy People has set and monitored national health objectives to meet a broad range of …
