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News release: “Each year, tens of millions of Americans, young and old, choose to learn about science in informal ways — by visiting museums and aquariums, attending after-school programs, pursuing personal hobbies, and watching TV documentaries, for example. There is abundant evidence that these programs and settings, and even everyday experiences such as a walk …
Congressional Budget Office (CBO): The Troubled Asset Relief Program: Report on Transactions Through December 31, 2008 “This is the first of CBOs statutory reports on the TARPs transactions. Through December 31, 2008, those transactions totaled $247 billion. Valuing those assets using procedures similar to those specified in the Federal Credit Reform Act (FCRA), but adjusting …
The State of the World’s Children 2009: Maternal and Newborn Health “The divide between industrialized countries and developing regions particularly the least developed countries is perhaps greater on maternal mortality than on almost any other issue. This claim is borne out by the numbers: Based on 2005 data, the average lifetime risk of …
Inspector General, Department of Defense: Examination of Allegations Involving DoD Office of Public Affairs Outreach Program, Jauary 14, 2009. “We initiated this review to further examine issues that were raised in an April 2008 New York Times article entitled, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagons Hidden Hand. The article documented a DoD public affairs outreach program that …
News release: “Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the incoming Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, and the founder of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, today praised a new report by the National Academies of Sciences entitled Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium. The report concludes …
News release: “In the first 21 months of operation, the Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS) recorded information on more than 1,200 alleged incidents of human trafficking, the U.S. Department of Justices Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. The HTRS contains data collected by 38 federally funded human trafficking task forces on alleged incidents of human …
News release: The National Archives…open[ed] more than 150 cubic feet of records of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The Commissions mandate was to provide a full and complete accounting of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and recommend …
News release: “Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) show that cellular phone expenditures increased rapidly from 2001 through 2007. Cellular phone expenditures surpassed spending on residential landline phone services beginning in 2007…annual expenditures for cellular phone services per consumer unit increased from $210 in 2001 to $608 in 2007, an …
New York Times, The Presidential Inauguration: News about presidential inaugurations, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Washington Post: Inauguration Central – News and notes on the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States – January 20, 2009 MSNBC – The Inauguration
Where to watch Obamas presidential inauguration online: Links to more than a dozen sources, from news and social media sites as well as bloggers. Of course, the networks will also be “televising” the inaugural, live. See also: Links to selected clips of previous inaugural addresses Washington Post: Get Inauguration Survival Alerts on Your Mobile Device
News release: “The U.S. government entered into an agreement today with Bank of America to provide a package of guarantees, liquidity access and capital as part of its commitment to support financial market stability. Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will provide protection against the possibility of unusually large losses on an asset pool …
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with other agencies, has released a report that discusses the impacts of sea level rise on the coast, coastal communities, and the habitats and species that depend on them. The report, Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region, examines multiple opportunities for …
