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“Cisco® today announced key findings from its annual global study on remote workers’ security awareness and online behavior, indicating how they can inadvertently heighten risks for themselves and the companies they work for. The study’s findings are prompting Cisco security executives to offer recommendations to information technology (IT) professionals on how to protect their companies …
Treasury press release: “Americans say direct deposit tops both ATM cards and checkbooks as their most important tool for managing personal finances. Yet approximately one in three Americans still do not use direct deposit, including nearly 10.5 million Social Security recipients, despite the widespread opinion that direct deposit is reliable and safe. The national survey …
Senate Budget Committee hearing, The President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget and Revenue Proposals, February 6, 2008. Senator Conrad — Opening Statement Charts Used at Hearing with Treasury Secretary Paulson Paulson Opening Statement on the President’s FY09 Budget Before the Senate Committee on Finance Related postings on the FY09 Budget
Press release: “According to a report issued today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), opium cultivation in Afghanistan in 2008 will be broadly similar to, or only slightly lower than last year’s record harvest of 192,000 hectares. Final output figures (8,200 tons last year) will depend on eradication (aimed at reducing …
“Chinas onerous media restrictions, the erosion of press freedom in African democracies, the criminalization of journalism in central Asia, and the use of vague antistate charges to jail journalists worldwide are among the troubling trends revealed in the new edition of Attacks on the Press.”
Wilson, Bart J., Findlay, David W., Meehan, James W., Wellford, Charissa P. and Schurter, Karl, An Experimental Analysis of the Demand for Payday Loans (January 14, 2008). The payday loan industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the consumer financial services market in the United States. The purpose of our study is to …
News.com: “Real ID’s scope is surprisingly broad. Jurors could potentially be denied entrance to federal courthouses. So could prospective students visiting the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis or the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Tours of federal buildings such as the Pentagon and the Treasury Department could be affected, as could public hearings, conferences, …
Ice Melt Accelerates Around the World, Frances C. Moore: “With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at new record highs and global average temperature now some 0.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the frozen regions of the earth are showing us just how rapidly climate change can take effect. Recent years have seen ice melt accelerate and …
Department of the Interior, Office of Inspector General Assessment of the United States Park Police, February 2008, PI-EV-NPS-0001-2007. “This memorandum transmits our report detailing the results of our assessment of the United States Park Police (USPP). This assessment is part of our continuing efforts to evaluate the management of Department of the Interior law enforcement …
In a statement to the House of Commons, the PM said that the Government would look at ways of using intercept evidence as advised by the Chilcot Report. Guidelines would be drawn up to ensure that the interests of national security were never compromised, he said. The PM said: “The use of intercept in evidence …
The Threat Posed By Inflated Statutory Damages, Comments on the January 25, 2008 Meeting Hosted by the Copyright Office: “The PRO IP Act (H.R. 4279) proposes to weaken the long-established one work rule, which today imposes a measure of certainty on how copyright statutory damages are calculated. Under current law, a copyright plaintiff may seek …
Press release: “Reps. Henry A. Waxman, John D. Dingell, Bart Stupak, and Frank Pallone, Jr., called on members of one of FDAs own advisory committees to provide Congress with its assessment of the resources needed to remedy the crisis at the agency stemming from years of chronic underfunding…The Science Board recently released a report concluding …