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Center for American Progress: The Terrorism Index: A Survey of the U.S. National Security Establishment on the War on Terror Executive Summary and Methodology with Complete Terrorism Survey Results View the complete survey results
Pew Global Attitudes Project, June 22, 2006 – The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other
World Resources Institute: 2006. Hot Climate, Cool Commerce: A Service Sector Guide to Greenhouse Gas Management. “A guide on managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that details the various steps necessary to manage track, and reduce GHG emissions.”
Press release: Pew Global Attitudes Survey 2006: Findings on U.S. Image, Views of Iraq and Iran The 15-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey, by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, conducted among nearly 17,000 people in the United States and 14 other nations from March 31-May 14, 2006 (62 pages, PDF)
Reports on monitoring of employee website usage are not uncommon, but today’s New York Times article highlights how blocking specific sites can impede work product. This can certainly be the case not only in the newsroom but in law firms and other corporate environments where competitive intelligence monitoring has become increasingly important.
Pew Internet, Online Banking 2006: “Online banking is holding steady as a mainstream internet activity, growing along with internet use generally, though not accelerating as have some other forms of online activities. Fully 43% of internet users, or about 63 million American adults, bank online.” Online Banking 2006: Surfing to the Bank (3 pages, PDF)
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Reconsidering Our Communications Laws: Ensuring Competition and Innovation, June 14, 2006. Links to member statements and testimony [HTML] FTC press release on testimony: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Judiciary Committee that as the Committee considers legislation to amend the Communications Act, it should preserve the FTC’s existing authority …
Press release: “Americans prize public library service in the Internet Age, a new research report released today by the nonpartisan public opinion research organization Public Agenda concludes. As local communities and states contend with tight budget constraints for public services, the public sees libraries as potential solutions to many communities’ most pressing problems, from universal …
From John P. Joergensen, Rutgers University School of Law – Camden Law Library, news about the launch of a searchable online collection of U.S. Congressional documents, hearings and prints that are being scanned from their holdings. This is an ongoing project, and the collection will expand over time. In addition, see also the New Jersey …
Press release: “A new study, House Prices in America, using Global Insight’s extensive proprietary databases on the housing market – which combined data and forecasts for home prices, home sales, housing stock, and household income with a methodology developed by the economics department of National City Corporation examines current and expected housing prices in …
H.R. 5252 – “Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 – Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow an eligible person or group to obtain a national franchise to provide cable service in a franchise area in lieu of any other authority under federal, state, or local law. Requires: (1) the filing of …
Press release: “For 2006, the Judiciary reports to Congress that each of the nearly 200 federal courts have websites and the vast majority of those sites satisfy or exceed all of the currently applicable requirements of the E-Government Act of 2002. By statute, a report on court compliance with the Act must be submitted to …
