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“H.Res. 734 expresses the sense of the House that the State Department has abused its classification authority by withholding from Congress and the American people information about the extent of corruption in the Maliki government. The resolution further condemns the State Department for retroactively classifying documents that had been widely distributed previously as unclassified, and …
NLM Technical Bulleting: “Starting October 12, 2007, some PubMed users will see links to a drug information resource on over two million citations. PubMed’s AbstractPlus display format includes links to “Patient Drug Information” from MedMaster; a publication of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and a new monograph on the NCBI Bookshelf. (For additional …
“Treasury today released the second in a series of papers on Social Security. Issue brief No. 2 entitled “Social Security Reform: A Framework for Analysis” discusses a top-down framework for designing and evaluating Social Security reform plans.” Report on Issue Brief No. 2: Social Security: A Framework for Analysis, October 12, 2007 (18 pages, PDF)
Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder: The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare. The site includes content areas as follows: Find & Compare Plans that Cover Drugs; Enroll in a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan (Online enrollment will be available beginning November 15, 2007); View Your Current Plan; Learn More About Drug Coverage Options; Learn …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today reiterated that despite the claims made in e-mails circulating on the Internet, consumers should not be concerned that their cell phone numbers will be released to telemarketers in the near future, and that it is not necessary to register cell phone numbers on the National Do Not Call …
Why Yahoo, not Google, should drive your search, by Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune Internet critic, October 12, 2007: “The Yahoo [search] effort…is so impressive I’m going to make it my default searcher. Best is “Search Assist,” an expandable box right below where you type your query that offers a bevy of clickable terms to help …
D-2007-133 Defense Civilian Pay System Controls Placed in Operation and Tests of Operating Effectiveness for the Period of July 1, 2006, Through June 30, 2007 (September 28, 2007) (Project D2007-D000FB-0189.000) PDF
“VitalStats, an online data access tool, introduces a new section on perinatal mortality data…In the perinatal mortality section of VitalStats, you can access pre-built linked birth/infant death tables and fetal death data files.” Provisional Vital Statistics for February 2007 Released. Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for February 2007
DOT OIG Audit – Information Security Program at the Department of Transportation, October 10, 2007, Project ID: FI-2008-001 “Summary: On October 10, 2007, we issued our final report on the annual audit of the Department of Transportation’s Information Security Program as required by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). FY 2007 was a particularly …
Press release: “The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain hard disk drives, components thereof, and products containing the same. The products at issue in this investigation are hard disk drives made using dissipative ceramic bonding tips, components of such drives, and products containing such drives. The investigation is …
Press release: “With a full twelve months under our belt, today OpenDNS published the first-ever PhishTank annual report. The report looks at the more than 300,000 phishes youve submitted and helped verify over the course of one year. While some of the reports findings come as no surprise (e.g., PayPal and eBay round out the …
Press release: “Project Vote releases a report today, Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate, by Douglas Hess that finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall U.S. population eligible to vote. The proportion of the U.S. population that registers to vote and that …
