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“By 2011 one in every 178 U.S. residents will live in prison, according to a new report released [February 13, 2007] by the Public Safety Performance Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Public Safety, Public Spending: Forecasting America’s Prison Population 2007-2011 [52 pages, PDF] projects that by 2011 America will have more than 1.7 million …
How Reliable Are the Early Presidential Polls? Poll Analysis – Pew Research Center for People and the Press, by Nilanthi Samaranayake and Scott Keeter: “The flurry of candidate announcements in an open race has spurred media attention to the 2008 presidential contest even earlier in the electoral cycle than usual. But followers of early poll …
Press release, February 12, 2007: “The Prescription Project…called on academic medical centers, professional medical societies and public and private payers to end conflicts of interest resulting from the $12 billion spent annually on pharmaceutical marketing. Building on a series of reforms recommended last year in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association …
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso, 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2007), 2007 “We have built an infrastructure that collects vital information about all Google’s systems every few minutes, and a repository that stores these data in timeseries format (essentially forever) for …
Press release: On February 14, 2007, “Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (Conn.-3) renewed their effort to consolidate food safety oversight in this country by reintroducing their Safe Food Act legislation that calls for the development of a single food safety agency and the implementation of a food safety program to …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press – War Support Slips, Fewer Expect a Successful Outcome – Country is ‘Losing Ground’ On Deficit, Rich-Poor Gap, Released: February 15, 2007 “Public support for the war in Iraq continues to decline, as a growing number of political independents are turning against the war. Overall, a …
Press release, February 15, 2007: “Following incidents at JFK and Austin airports where passengers were forced to remain on planes for as long as 11 hours, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today announced that she is planning to introduce a “Passengers’ Bill of Rights” in the Senate to ensure that air travelers are not unnecessarily …
DHS press release: “The U.S. Department of Homeland Securitys (DHS) Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently issued a potential $58 million, over five years, in grant opportunities for colleges and universities that will focus on detection systems, individual sensors or other research relevant to the detection of nuclear weapons, …
Follow up to previous postings on calls for judicial pay raises, “The deans of 130 of the nation’s law schools have sent letters to congressional leaders in support of “a substantial increase in the compensation of federal judges.”
“The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make …
February 16, 2007 – Investing in Raising Children February 16, 2007 – Investing in Families Taking Care of Elderly Parents February 16, 2007 – Investing In a College Education Weekly Economic Digest – February 16 , 2007 – Housing, Retail Sales, and Industrial Production All Slowed in January
New LC Country Profiles on Turkmenistan (February 16, 2007) and Uzbekistan (February 15, 2007).