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Post-Deployment Stress: What You Should Know, What You Can Do – April 17, 2008 – “Covers information about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and other emotional and behavioral problems, e.g., depression and substance abuse, that veterans may face following deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.” Post-Deployment Stress: What Families Should Know, What Families …
April 11, 2008 – District of Columbia v. Heller: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment – “In Parker v. District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that provisions of the D.C. Code that prohibit persons from keeping handguns in their home …
Rand Report – Comparing Alternative U.S. Counterterrorism Strategies Can Assumption-Based Planning Help Elevate the Debate? By: Robert J. Lempert, Horacio R. Trujillo, David Aaron, James A. Dewar, Sandra H. Berry, Steven W. Popper. “The United States faces the challenge of countering the terrorism threat. Frequently, both expert decision makers and lay citizens have trouble assessing …
EPA: “On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe. Through the combined efforts of the U.S. government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, …
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA): Households using the Internet in and outside the home, by selected characteristics: Total, Urban, Rural, Principal City, October 2007
News release, 2008 Elections: “A look at the population, selected characteristics and 2004 voting percentage of each state as it approaches its 2008 primary or caucus.”
Follow up to April 15, 2008 posting, National Toxicology Program Draft Brief on Bisphenol A…”Bisphenol A can migrate into food from food and beverage containers with internal epoxy resin coatings and from consumer products made of polycarbonate plastic such as baby bottles, tableware, food containers, and water bottles…” – this news release, April 18, 2008: …
“Consistent with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), as amended by the Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007, and Executive Order 13392, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has undertaken and completed a review of its public FOIA regulations that govern certain aspects of its processing of FOIA requests. As a result …
The Cyclically Adjusted and Standardized Budget Measures, April 2008 “The size of the budget deficit is influenced by temporary factors, such as the effects of the business cycle or onetime shifts in the timing of federal tax receipts and spending, and by the longer-lasting impact of such factors as tax and spending legislation, changes in …
CBO: Cost Estimate for H.R. 5749, Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008, April 17, 2008. Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on April 16, 2008.
Fact Sheet: “The United States and Korea concluded an agreement on April 18, 2008 to fully reopen South Korea’s market to all U.S. beef and beef products consistent with international standards and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) guidelines. Before the Korean market was closed to U.S. beef and beef products in December 2003, …
“The National Homeland Security Consortium has outlined a vision for how the nation should address homeland security in the modern era in a new white paper, Protecting Americans in the 21st Century: Imperatives for the Homeland. In particular, the paper urges an equal partnership among local, state, and federal government as well as private entities …
