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Via Joel Fishman, Ph.D., Asst. Director for Lawyer Services: “The Pennsylvania Constitution Web Site at Duquesne University School of Law has been updated with more than 20,000 pages and a newly-designed web site, that includes: The colonial constitutional documents are now available (Charter to William Penn, Great Law of 1682, three frames of government and …
Virtual Museum and Timeline of the SEC and Securities History: “Explore important events in the history of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the securities industry with our interactive timeline. Select a decade, scroll left or right to see different years and click on the events in bold to read more detail….Expanded December 2006. …
Roll Call: “Ethics Panel Concludes Conyers Inquiry With a Warning but No Punishment – The House ethics committee concluded its three-year inquiry into incoming Judiciary Chairman John Conyers on Friday, voting to take no punitive action against the Michigan Democrat but warning him not to use Congressional staff for any campaign or personal purposes in …
Saddam Hussein Death: Resources for Journalists – Poynter’s Al Tompkins provides a range of resources that will help you make sense of — and cover — Saddam Hussein’s execution.
Fact Sheet: Select Homeland Security Accomplishments For 2006, Release Date: December 29, 2006. Related: Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Protecting the Homeland: Meeting Challenges and Looking Forward, Release Date: December 14, 2006.
“Search Wikia serves as a platform for the development of a new open source search engine with user-editable search results. This wiki accompanies the development therefore, and is used as a sounding board for ideas, organization and technical stuff. It is a place for the search community to discuss the project and search related issues.” …
Press release: “The National Agricultural Library has completed the process of re-scoping the AGRICOLA Index and has published its list of titles recommended for indexing in 2007. The decision to re-scope was necessary because our appropriated resources were not sufficient to keep the AGRICOLA Index current and permit us to increase the number of items …
Hitwise reports that Google Blog Search “the market share of visits to Google Blog Search surpassed visits to Technorati for the week ending 12/23/06.”
Press release: “Scientists at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville have succeeded in imaging, in unprecedented detail, the virus that causes influenza…This breakthrough has the potential to identify particular features of …
Press release: “he Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today made public Media Bureau staff reports and studies on media ownership and related issues in response to a request from Chairman Martin. Media Bureau staff provided copies of all studies and reports, draft or final, regarding media ownership, minority ownership, and localism and …
Press release: “The findings from an annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2005 are released today and posted on the U.S. Treasury web site. The survey was undertaken jointly by the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System…The …
From the BBC, this May 28, 2006 article will not come as a surprise to many, but may indeed prove useful to those who are seeking an alternative to “conventional” modalities. The press release from the Journal of Advanced Nursing.