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“HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) …
The Role of Biofuels and Other Factors in Increasing Farm and Food Prices – A Review of Recent Developments with a Focus on Feed Grain Markets and Market Prospects. Keith Collins, Ph.D. June 23, 2008. Executive Summary “Farm-level prices have increased sharply over the past two years. The index of prices received by farmers for …
E-Discovery Update: Precision, Accuracy, and Relevance – Conrad J. Jacoby discusses the challenges and ramifications inherent in an evironment where litigants have increasingly come to rely on computerized search queries rather than free-form document review to identify potentially relevant documents. Published June 30, 2008
Mastering Finance in Government – Transforming the government enterprise through better financial management, Published June 23, 2008; 40 pages; A Deloitte Research Public Sector study. “This survey of senior government officials representing more than 200 government organizations from 28 countries around the world makes up one of the largest global data sets on financial transformation …
The Assets Agenda Policy Options To Promote Savings And Asset Ownership By Low- And Moderate-Income Americans, By Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini, Reid Cramer, Rourke O’Brien, New America Foundation June 30, 2008. “The agenda we present here includes calls for new structures and policies at the federal level, as well as changes to existing tax systems, government programs, …
News release: “The Senlis Council [The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank committed to implementing change at all policy levels, by bridging the gap between people and policy in three key areas] has maintained an operational base in the southern provinces of Afghanistan since 2004. Initially aimed at providing a firsthand view of …
Aalok Mehta aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, National Geographic News June 20, 2008: “Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer, report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field. “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time …
News release: “A majority of Americans (64%) say that it is important to know their physicians financial ties to pharmaceutical companies and 68% would support legislation requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose gifts to doctors, according to the results of a new survey released…by the Prescription Project. The pharmaceutical industry spends more than $7 billion annually …
Pew Internet news release: “The Library of Congress invited Michael Wesch to deliver the third of four Digital Natives lectures. Wesch, creator of the world-famous YouTube video, The Machine is Us/ing Us, presented the “Anthropology of YouTube” to a packed, fascinated and amused audience on Monday…Wesch said that there are now well over 200,000 three-minute …
“GlobalHealthFacts.org, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps. Additionally, the custom data sheet application allows users to compare up to five countries against any …
Iraq Index Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Post-Saddam Iraq, June 16, 2008
Quickly, Carefully, and Generously – Task Force for a Responsible Withdrawal from Iraq, June 2008. Preface by U.S. Representative James P. McGovern (MA-03). Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA. “The United States and the international community bear a responsibility to contribute to the alleviation of suffering and the advancement of stability and peace in Iraq. It was …
