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Pew Internet & American Life Project: “For Americans on the move, the Internet is becoming an increasingly important resource for researching housing options. The number of online house hunters has increased by two thirds since March 2000. On average, more than three million Internet users are online on any given day searching for a new …
Press release: “Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) today released the fourth annual “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism,” which found that five years after the September 11th and anthrax tragedies, emergency health preparedness is still inadequate in America. The…report contains state-by-state health preparedness scores based on 10 key indicators …
Press release: “Following 60 years of gridlock on a desperately-needed overhaul of the nations health care system, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a member of the Finance Committee, today unveiled a groundbreaking new proposal to provide affordable, high quality, private health coverage for everyone regardless of where they work or live.” Learn more about the Healthy …
About Google Patent Search: “As part of Googles mission to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful, were constantly working to expand the diversity of content we make available to our users. With Google Patent Search, you can now search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents …
Press release: Among the predicitions, is the following – “Blogging and community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Given the trend in the average life span of a blogger and the current growth rate of blogs, there are already more than 200 million ex-bloggers. Consequently, the peak number of bloggers will be …
Press release, December 11, 2006: Training for Terrorism-Related Conditions in Hospitals: United States, 2003-04. Advance Data Number 380. 9 pp. (PHS) 2007-1250. “The report …is based on data from the annual National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, conducted by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).” “Eighty-eight percent of hospitals surveyed in 2003 and 2004 …
Follow up to my December 11, 2006 posting, EPA Responds to Protests Over Library Closures, see today’s ALA Press release: “American Library Association (ALA) President Leslie Burger responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) update Monday on the status of agency libraries. “The teleconference raised more questions than it answered. It is a gross oversimplification …
Ensuring Liberty And Security Through Checks And Balances: A Fresh Start For The Senate Judiciary Committee In The New 110th Congress, December 13, 2006 – By Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Incoming Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, United States Senate. “When it comes to protecting Americans privacy, what we have today are analog rules in a digital …
Press release: “Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) and Senator John E. Sununu (R-NH) introduced legislation [on December 8, 2006] to repeal Title II of the REAL ID Act of 2005, which they believe places an unrealistic and unfunded burden on state governments and erodes Americans’ civil liberties and privacy rights. The Identification Security Enhancement Act …
Press release: “U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced today during a speech at a meeting of the Lawyers for Civil Justice in New York that the Department of Justice is revising its corporate charging guidelines for federal prosecutors throughout the country. The new guidance revises the Thompson Memorandum, which was issued in January …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: Baker-Hamilton Report Evokes Modest Public Interest Growing Number Sees Iraq Becoming ‘Another Vietnam’, December 12, 2006. “Despite deep public dissatisfaction with the Iraq war, the highly anticipated report by a bipartisan panel proposing new policy options for Iraq did not register strongly with most Americans. Only …
Press release: “Senator Chuck Grassley and Congressman Rush Holt today said that they sent a letter [text of which is available in PDF] to the Attorney General asking for a briefing on the Amerithrax case. The letter was signed by 33 members of Congress. “We’re seeing more and more agencies thwart the Constitutional responsibility of …
