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From Diane Kovacs: Results of Core Consumer Medical/Health Reference Tools Survey, includes Print, Free Web-Sites, Govdocs Sites, and Fee-Based Websites. Results of Professional Professional/Research Medical/Health Core Reference Survey, includes Print, Free Web-Sites, Govdocs Sites, and Fee-Based Websites.
“The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2004. It is designed for use by scholars and students who seek to test theories about the causes and consequences of human rights violations, as well as policy makers and analysts …
Press release: “A new market report entitled “Beyond Aviation: The Emerging Ground Transportation Security Market,” (free but reg. req’d) cites a dramatic imbalance between federal security spending on ground transportation as compared to aviation. According to one estimate, federal funding for aviation security has approached $20 billion since 2001 compared to $400 million for ground …
Press release, Air Line Pilots Association: The U.S. and Canada have made significant advancements in securing their air transportation systems since the 9/11 attacks, but serious gaps remain, according to an analysis issued today by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, (ALPA). The worlds largest pilots union report, titled Aviation Security, Five Years After the …
Diminished Public Appetite for Military Force and Mideast Oil Five Years Later, Released September 6, 2006: “Five years later, Americans’ views of the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have changed little, but opinions about how best to protect against future attacks have shifted substantially. In particular, far more Americans say reducing America’s overseas …
National Archives Issues Progress Report on Declassification Initiatives: “The new NDI program will reduce redundancies in declassification review, will promote accurate and consistent declassification decisions, will improve equity recognition across the declassification community, develop centralized priorities and management controls around the priorities, and make the declassification process more transparent to the public.” Related postings on …
Reclaiming Pieces of Camelot – How NARA and the JFK Library Recovered Missing Kennedy Documents and Artifacts, by James M. Roth: “Among the more celebrated individuals suspected of misappropriating presidential and federal documents is Evelyn Lincoln, former secretary to President John F. Kennedy. Through the efforts of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library staff, the …
The World Catastrophe Reinsurance Market – Steep Peaks Overshadow Plateaus: “This annual report, which covers 22 countries and four regions, is a comprehensive study of the property catastrophe reinsurance market. In addition to reviewing catastrophe exposures and the availability of catastrophe insurance from private and government sources, the study summarizes respective market conditions in catastrophe …
From the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs: The Top September 11 Conspiracy Theories “Numerous unfounded conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks continue to circulate, especially on the Internet.” [August 28, 2006] This site reviews and rebuts eight such theories. Related government documents, literature and postings: National Institute of Standards and …
Economic Policy Institute: Select chapters excerpted from The State of Working America 2006/2007 are available free, and links are provided below. Table of Contents, Executive Summary and Introduction Chapter 1: Family Income: “New economy” drives a wedge between productivity and living standards Chapter 5: Wealth: Unrelenting disparities; and the news release for this chapter Chapter …
“The new Executive Excess report surveys all publicly held U.S. corporations among the top 100 defense contractors that had at least 10 percent of revenues in defense. These 34 CEOs combined have pocketed almost a billion dollars since 9/11.” Executive Excess 2006 (60 pages, PDF)
CLIR: “A joint project of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and OCLC, the registry provides a trusted service for the communication, coordination, and discovery of information about digital masters, their production, and the availability of use copies. The registry includes both digitally reformatted and born-digital objects. Hosted by OCLC and developed on the basis of …
