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The causes of civil war. Authors: Reynal-Querol, Marta; Djankov, Simeon; June 15, 2007, WPS4254 (33 pages, PDF) Summary: “The dominant hypothesis in the literature that studies conflict is that poverty is the main cause of civil wars. We instead analyze the effect of institutions on civil war, controlling for income per capita. In our set …
Daniel Pulliam at Govexec.com reported, “Eighteen agencies have been asked by the Office of Special Counsel to preserve electronic information dating back to January 2001 as part of its governmentwide investigation into alleged violations of the law that limits political activity in federal agencies. The OSC task force investigating the claims has asked agencies, including …
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a new tool to help growers, packers, processors, manufacturers, warehousers, transporters, and retailers in the food industry determine the vulnerability of individual food facilities to biological, chemical, or radiological attack. The software program, called the CARVER + Shock Software Tool, is a science-based prevention …
Review of Allegations Regarding San Francisco International Airport, OIG-07-04 (PDF, 24 pages), October 2006 – Released June 15, 2007.
“FDA has found a poisonous chemical, diethylene glycol (DEG), in certain toothpastes imported from China. The agency increased its scrutiny and testing of imported toothpaste and dental products after receiving reports in late May 2007 of contaminated Chinese dental products found in several countries, including Panama. The agency is warning consumers to avoid using tubes …
Press release: “Program to Put Digitized Newspapers Online Makes Eight Awards – “Approximately 310,000 digitized newspaper pages, dating from 1900 to 1910, are now accessible through the Chronicling America Web site…New features in Chronicling America include: 80,000 pages have been added (including 11 new titles); The page display has been revised. Adobe Flash Player is …
Press release: “Recycling rates have risen, and the UK is on schedule to meet EU targets, but the key to dealing with our escalating waste problem lies in changing our buying habits and our attitudes to consumption, according to the authors of a new Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) publication. Consumption: reducing, reusing and …
National Trust’s 20th List of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places: America’s priceless heritage is at riskfrom the storied waterfront of Brooklyn to the neon-clad mom-and-pop motels of Route 66some of America’s most irreplaceable landmarks are threatened. “The sites on this year’s list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places embody the diversity and complexity of …
Bureau of Labor Statistics – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Spring 2007
Image Spam: By the Numbers, by Scott Berinato: “Image Spaman e-mail solicitation that uses graphical images of text to avoid filtersis not new. Recently, though, it reached an unprecedented level of sophistication and took off. A year ago, fewer than five out of 100 e-mails were image spam, according to Doug Bowers of Symantec. Today, …
Press release: “Citing the results of a new economic study, Governor Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security…detailed how welcoming more overseas travelers to the United States could provide more resources for needed security enhancements. Ridge emphasized that overseas visitors are critical to Americas economy and public diplomacy and that …
The Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights released an Airline Stranding Reportcard 2007 (21 pages, PDF) on June 13, 2007. “This report card is a combination of press reports, government statistics and eye witness accounts provided by our coalition members.” See also Coalition for an Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights and the Airline …
