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Press release: “The FBI released the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2005 today, which showed a mixed direction in crime nationwide: the number of violent crime offenses rose 2.5 percent, but the number of property crime offenses decreased 1.6 percent when compared with data from 2004. The FBI collected these preliminary data from 12,485 …
Kudos to Kathy Biehl, whose short story, Accounting for the Stars, was awarded third place this year. The list of 2006 Short Story Fiction Writing Contest Finalists is here.
CRS Report, The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States, May 5, 2006 (31 pages, PDF): “The objective of this report is to highlight some of the demographic changes that have already occurred since 1950 and to illustrate how these and future trends will reshape the nation in the decades to come (through 2050).”
Harry Reid
Washington Post, Public Secrets, by Robert G. Kaiser, Sunday, June 11, 2006. “Steven Aftergood, who works on classification issues for the Federation of American Scientists, calls the administration’s approach to secrets “a cultivation of fear as a policy driver.” He adds: “We are being told that nothing is more important than the external threat that …
Press release: “The study presents data from a survey of 84 law libraries; data is broken out for law firm, university, government and private company law libraries, and by size of the librarys content budget. The study has approximately 300 tables of data summarizing a broad range of developments in law library policies regarding personnel …
Press release, June 1, 2006: “The Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET)…is releasing this draft final report of its performance evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System during Hurricane Katrina. Our sincere hope is that the results of this report, used already in the repairs of the system, the assessments of …
“Eigen’s Political & Historical Quotations is the world’s largest collection of memorable quotes about and by historians, politicians and other public figures. The collection is designed for the use of students, journalists, teachers, historians, political scientists and the many other people who are interested in politics and political history. Use the quotation search to look …
“…the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program (eHVRP) is a collaborative of health care industry organizations, technology companies and security professionals. eHVRPs mandate is to establish approaches and procedures that will help ensure eHealth systems are broadly and rapidly deployed with the highest levels of privacy and security.”
“The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report provides USDA’s comprehensive forecasts of supply and demand for major U.S. and global crops and U.S. livestock. The report gathers information from a number of statistical reports published by USDA and other government agencies, and provides a framework for additional USDA reports.” The most recent WASDE …
Economic Research Service, June 7, 2006: “The statistical indicators formerly provided in Agricultural Outlook magazine will continue to be updated regularly. These tables include data on individual commodities, the general economy, agricultural trade, farm income and expenses, farm prices, food prices and expenditures, and other statistical indicators of the food and agriculture system. Data as …
Press release: “The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives conferees today approved the FY 2006 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery. The $94.5 billion bill includes funding for the war effort, hurricane recovery in the Gulf Coast, pandemic flu preparation, border security, levee repair and flood control …