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New York Times – Tunas End, by Paul Greenberg: “Global seafood consumption has increased consistently to the point where we now remove more wild fish and shellfish from the oceans every year than the weight of the human population of China. This latest surge has taken us past the Age of Cod and landed us …
Assessing the Cell Phone Challenge to Survey Research in 2010: “One-in-four U.S. households now have no landline telephone, considerably more than in the early 1960s when telephone surveys were considered infeasible because so many households were unreachable by telephone. Unlike the 1960s, however, most of those without a landline today do have telephone service, in …
Follow up to previous postings on Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan, see the Report of the American Civil Liberties Union on the Nomination of Elena Kagan to be Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2010 “The simple truth is that there is much that we do not know about Kagans views on …
UK Central Office of Information released audit results on June 24, 2010: “The Central Office of Information (COI) has delivered the standards and guidance requested and the report should be read in conjunction with them: Measuring website costs Measuring website usage Measuring website quality Delivering inclusive websites The 2009/10 report covers websites run by ministerial …
News release: “Senator Chuck Grassley released a staff report of the Committee on Finance on the practice of medical ghostwriting and is urging the National Institutes of Health to incorporate its findings in new, final disclosure guidelines. The committee staff report is based on a two-year review of the role that pharmaceutical and medical device …
The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative: “President Obama has identified cybersecurity as one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government or as a country are not adequately prepared to counter. Shortly after taking office, the President therefore ordered a thorough review of …
“The National Security Strategy, released May 27, 2010, lays out a strategic approach for advancing American interests, including the security of the American people, a growing U.S. economy, support for our values, and an international order that can address 21st century challenges.”
News release: “Fannie Mae announced today policy changes designed to encourage borrowers to work with their servicers and pursue alternatives to foreclosure. Defaulting borrowers who walk-away and had the capacity to pay or did not complete a workout alternative in good faith will be ineligible for a new Fannie Mae-backed mortgage loan for a period …
Warfighter Support: Preliminary Observations on DOD’s Progress and Challenges in Distributing Supplies and Equipment to Afghanistan, GAO-10-842T, June 25, 2010 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Implications of Recent Legislative and Economic Changes for State Programs and Work Participation Rates, GAO-10-525, May 28, 2010 Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials Are Widely Used in Commerce, but EPA Faces Challenges in …
News release: “The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has today pledged to scrap hundreds of unnecessary and expensive government websites and slash the cost of the remaining sites to save millions of pounds. In autumn 2006 the Government committed to dramatically culling the number of websites. In March 2010 there were still 794 …
Office of Inspector General Department of the Treasury – OIG-10-042 Safety and Soundess: Material Loss Review of BankUnited, FSB, June 22, 2010 “This report presents the results of our material loss review of the failure of BankUnited, FSB (BankUnited), of Coral Gables, Florida, and of the Office of Thrift Supervisions (OTS) supervision of the institution. …
Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers Personal Information; Company Will Establish Independently Audited Information Security Program: “Social networking service Twitter has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information, marking the agencys first such case against …
