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Will the U.S. Current Account Have a Hard or Soft Landing? June 11, 2007 Testimony on Research on the Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Treatments: Options for an Expanded Federal Role, June 12, 2007 Background Paper: Factors Underlying the Growth in Medicare’s Spending for Physicians’ Services, June 2007
“The purpose of this Report is to call the world’s attention to the existence of modern-day slavery, and the desperate need to eliminate it the same way the world ended the African slave trade more than a century ago. Human trafficking plagues every country including the United States. The Report covers 164 countries and territories, …
Technical Security Evaluation of DHS Activities at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Unclassified Summary, OIG-07-44 (PDF, 3 pages), May 2007 – released June 12, 2007.
Press release: “Software security researchers can disclose vulnerabilities almost to their hearts’ content. Web security researchers, on the other hand, can go to jail for merely looking for a vulnerability, much less disclosing one publicly. The inaugural report of CSI’s new working group explains why, and whether the legal climate is bad for the Internet.”
H.R. 2545: To make available on the Internet, for purposes of access and retrieval by the public, certain information available through the Congressional Research Service web site. Sponsor: Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] (introduced 5/24/2007). (1) IN GENERAL – The Director of the Congressional Research Service shall make available through a centralized, searchable, electronic database, for …
Biofuels: DOE Lacks a Strategic Approach to Coordinate Increasing Production with Infrastructure Development and Vehicle Needs GAO-07-713, June 8, 2007 Defense Acquisitions: Analysis of Processes Used to Evaluate Active Protection Systems GAO-07-759, June 8, 2007 Motor Carrier Safety: A Statistical Approach Will Better Identify Commercial Carriers That Pose High Crash Risks Than Does the Current …
Press release: “This Web site has been established to provide information about an Information Technology Security Incident in which a security breach in a computer application resulted in exposure of sensitive information belonging to current and former University of Virginia faculty members. A criminal investigation is being conducted by University of Virginia Police in consultation …
Cooperation against Cybercrime: 11-12 June 2007, Palais de lEurope, Strasbourg, France: “Societies worldwide rely on information and communication technologies. However, the increasing dependency on such technologies is accompanied by a growing vulnerability to criminal intrusion and misuse. In response to these challenges the Council of Europe adopted the Convention on Cybercrime (ETS 185) in 2001 …
President Bush Trip to Europe and G-8 Summit in Germany, June 6-8, 2007: Includes several dozen links to U.S. Government Statements, Press Conferences, Interviews, Fact Sheets.
Human Rights First press release: “Hate crimes are on the rise in many parts of Europe, according to Human Rights Firsts 2007 Hate Crimes Survey, a new report examining hate-driven violence in countries from the Russian Federation and the Central Asian states across Europe to North America.” 2007 Hate Crime Survey
Provisional Vital Statistics for October 2006 Released. Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for October 2006, May 25, 2007.
Press release: “The CIA recently delivered more than 420,000 additional pages of redacted declassified electronic records to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) facility in College Park, Maryland. The declassified CIA records are hosted on the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), which is an electronic search and retrieval system. CREST now includes more than …