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OIG-08-46 – A Review of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Procurement of Untrained Canines (PDF, 35 pages) “From April 2006 through June 2007, U.S. Customs and Border Protection procured 322 untrained canines at a cost of $1.46 million, or an average price of $4,535 per canine. The costs incurred for the untrained canines were reasonable …
Quick Response Evaluation: Underpayments to Widows (A-01-08-28116), May 22, 2008: “Our objective was to quantify the amount of Title II benefits owed a group of widows whose benefits were not properly adjusted at full retirement age (FRA).”
News release: “IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Director General Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei today simultaneously circulated a report to the UN Security Council and the IAEA Board of Governors regarding Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), and 1803 (2008) in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” …
News release: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unveiled plans for the Sentinel Initiative, a strategy to create and implement a national, integrated, electronic system for monitoring medical product safety. The resulting “Sentinel System” will strengthen FDA’s ability to track how drugs and medical products perform once they go on the market. Ultimately, this …
May 23, 2008: “…the National Security Archive publishes its third installment of the diary of one of the main supporters of Mikhail Gorbachev and strongest proponents of glasnost during the perestroika period in the Soviet Union Anatoly Sergeevich Chernyaev. This section of the diary, covering two key years of history, is being published in …
Population Reference Bureau, State-by-State Costs of Child Poverty in the U.S. – by Kelvin Pollard (May 2008) “Research has shown that growing up in poverty leads to negative health, social, and economic consequences for children that often continue in adulthood. Compared with other children, children living below the poverty line are less healthy, have lower …
United Nations Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the United Nations, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-third Session Supplement No. 55 released May 23, 2008.
House Intelligence Committee Report on the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act, H.Rep. 110-665, May 21. The link and following, from Secrecy News: “The National Cyber Security Initiative, which is the single largest and most important initiative in next years budget, is being conducted under excessive classification, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) said in …
News release: “A key treaty that governs global civil nuclear liability marked an important milestone this week, as the United States ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) at IAEA headquarters in Vienna. Upon entry into force, the CSC would establish a uniform global legal regime for the compensation of victims in …
IRS Issues Spring 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin: “The IRS releases the spring 2008 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring data from the 138.4 million individual tax returns filed for tax year 2006.”
Fact Sheet: Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Free and Fair Trade
2008 Summer Market and Reliability Assessment, May 15, 2008: “The reliability and adequacy of the bulk power system this summer, as forecasted by the planning authorities and reviewed by the Regional Entities and NERC is projected to be adequate. Extreme weather conditions and major outages of generation and transmission pose risks to reliability and where …
