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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 …
Follow up to previous postings on tainted pet food recalls see Lisa Wade McCormick, ConsumerAffairs.com: “Parties involved in the litigation surrounding the largest pet food recall in U.S. history — blamed for the deaths and illnesses of thousands of dogs and cats in North America — have agreed to settle the case for $24 million. …
Memorial Day – Have a a fun, safe, and memorable Memorial Day weekend using official U.S. government information.
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 …
Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law, by Robert F. Blomquist “In most cultural contexts creativity is viewed as an unalloyed virtue. Law is different: given the inherently conservative and slow-moving pace of legal evolution, innovation in the law is viewed by many observers as problematic. Yet American …
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