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Follow up to previous postings on nuclear power, this new CRS report, Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities, January 18, 2008: “The physical security of nuclear power plants and their vulnerability to deliberate acts of terrorism was elevated to a national security concern following the events of September 11, 2001. Title VI of the Energy …
CDC National Vital Statistics Reports – Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for May 2007 – released January 25, 2008. See also CDC Vital and Health Statistics – Health Characteristics of the Asian Adult Population: United States, 20042006, released January 222, 2008
Bill 63 07-08 (90 pages, PDF), and Summary of the Bill: “A Bill to Confer further powers to gather and share information for counter-terrorism and other purposes; to make further provision about the detention and questioning of terrorist suspects and the prosecution and punishment of terrorist offences; to impose notification requirements on persons convicted of …
Press release, December 10, 2007 – “The way communicators dispense information is out of sync with the way consumers use media, according to Media, Myths & Realities, a comprehensive survey of media usage among consumers and communications professionals conducted by global public relations firm Ketchum and the University of Southern California Annenberg Strategic Public Relations …
Earthjustice – Wolves in Danger: “The wolf’s amazing comeback in the northern Rockies is one of our country’s greatest wildlife success stories. But it may be dangerously short-lived now that the federal government has issued a rule that permits wolf killing in the northern Rockies. This heralds the beginning of a larger plan to remove …
“This analysis find that the sharply contrasting health care platforms of the leading Democratic and Republican presidential candidates reflect dramatic differences in the perspectives of their primary voters. The article analyzes a newly released Kaiser/Harvard survey of likely primary voters in 35 states (and the District of Columbia) with January or February primaries or caucuses, …
Press release: “W3C…published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web content and Web applications. The group operates entirely in public with nearly five hundred participants, including representatives from W3C …
Follow up to postings on the Economic Stimulus Package, Dept. of the Treasury – Fact Sheet: Examples of How the Economic Growth Package will Benefit Americans
CRS Report, U.S. Foreign Assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean: FY2006-FY2008, December 28, 2007
“Today the U.S. Commerce Department introduced a new data series that precisely measures export values for metropolitan areas. In 2006, 116 metropolitan areas recorded product sales of $1 billion or more. U.S. exporters reported a record $1.4 trillion in goods and services in 2006. Final 2007 numbers are forecast to exceed 2006 totals…The data series …
VA and DOD Health Care: Administration of DOD’s Post-Deployment Health Reassessment to National Guard and Reserve Servicemembers and VA’s Interaction with DOD, GAO-08-181R, January 25, 2008 Defense Contracting: Contract Risk a Key Factor in Assessing Excessive Pass-Through Charges, GAO-08-269, January 25, 2008 Supply Chain Security: Examinations of High-Risk Cargo at Foreign Seaports Have Increased, but …
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, The Department of Justice’s Victim Notification System, Audit Report 08-04, January 2008, Redacted for public release (142 pages, PDF). “The Department of Justice (DOJ) Victim Notification System (VNS) is an automated system used by federal personnel to notify federal crime victims regarding developments in their cases, including information about the …