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World Health Organization Drug Target Prioritization Database: TDR Targets Database Identification and ranking of targets against neglected tropical diseases. seattlepi.com: “The Web site, TDRtargets.org, focuses on many diseases that have not been high on the pharmaceutical industry’s priority list because most of them largely afflict poor people. Yet, taken all together, these diseases cause billions …
ALM: “How do companies select counsel in foreign countries? What tools and resources do companies use to select overseas counsel? What are the “must-have” qualities for overseas outside counsel? See ALM’s new study, How U.S. Companies Select International Outside Counsel.”
Families Missing out on Billions of Unclaimed Tax Credits, April 2007 Free E-Filing Makes Sense for both Taxpayers and the IRS
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today proposed recommendations to Congress for reauthorizing the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA II), which, if adopted, would help to ensure that safe and effective medical devices get to patients in a timely manner. FDA is accepting public comments on the proposal for …
Press release: “Bankruptcy filings in the federal courts dropped 70 percent in calendar year 2006, according to data released today by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. However, bankruptcies filed for the last three months of calendar year 2006 were the highest of any quarter in the calendar year. The statistics cover the first …
From Greg R. Notess, State Libraries: Custom Search Options Compared – “For the six search builders listed on the Customize Your Own Search Engine page, here are the search engines built using the state library sites from all 50 U.S. states, or at least as many as they can manage.”
ALA press release: “New data on U.S. libraries shows almost two billion served – Predicted demise due to Internet fails to materialize: Ten years after some experts predicted the demise of the nation’s system of libraries as a result of the Internet explosion, the most current national data on library use shows that the exact …
Solove, Daniel J., The First Amendment as Criminal Procedure. New York University Law Review, Vol. 82, p. 112, 2007. “This Article explores the relationship between the First Amendment and criminal procedure. These two domains of constitutional law have long existed as separate worlds, rarely interacting with each other despite the fact that many instances of …
Department of State, 16 April 2007, Missile Defense Assets To Provide Protection in Central Europe, U.S. and NATO missile defense efforts are designed to be complementary. Department of State, 16 April 2007, U.S. Has Offered Russia Role in Missile Defense Since 2001. Fact Sheet on U.S. missile defense assets in Europe U.S. will maintain command …
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, The State of Veteran and Reservist Entrepreneurship, March 22, 2007 (22 pages, PDF) “With nearly 25 million veterans in the United States, including 2.5 million service disabled veterans, there is a growing need for an increased commitment to helping America’s veterans and reservists succeed in business and the …
Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions – What Americans Know: 1989-2007. Released April 15, 2007. “Since the late 1980s, the emergence of 24-hour cable news as a dominant news source and the explosive growth of the internet have led to major changes in the American public’s news habits. But …
SBA Fact Sheet on Hurricane Katrina Recovery Contracts, April 12, 2007. AP – SBA: Mistakes Made in Post-Katrina Loans
