May 11, 2006 press release: “Complete back issues covering nearly 200 years of historically significant biomedical journals are being made freely available online as a result of a landmark project launched today at the Wellcome Trust headquarters in London. On completion, the Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project will deliver over three million pages of medical journals to the archive, free to anyone through standard search tools such as PubMed and Google.”
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Daily Archives: May 12, 2006
Info On Pentagon Phone Surveillance Program Generates Legal and Political Ramifications
Follow-up to May 11, 2006 posting, Domestic Call Records Mined for Expansive Pentagon Database Program, see the following related news and commentary: USAToday.com: NSA secret database report triggers fierce debate in Washington USAToday.com: Gathering data may not violate privacy rights, but it could be illegal Press release: Over Fifty Members of Congress Call for Special… Continue Reading
Funding for Water Quality Projects Face Deep Cuts
Follow-up to May 10, 2006 posting, EPA Reports Almost Half of the Nation’s Streams Are Polluted, see the Committee on Appropriations, Minority report, May 11, 2006: Love that Dirty Water: The Republican Record on Clean Water. Continue Reading
Essay Proposes FISA Is Not Adequate to Combat Technology Associated With Terrorism
Follow-up to yesterday’s posting, Lawful Intelligence and Surveillance of Terrorists in an Emergency by NSA Act Introduced Today, see Whispering Wires and Warrantless Wiretaps, by Kim Taipale, N.Y.U. REV. L. & SECURITY, No. VII Supl., “Bulletin: The NSA and the War on Terror,” (Spring 2006). “This essay examines certain implications of employing [automated data analysis… Continue Reading
Health-EU Portal Debuts
“The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General is pleased to present the Health-EU Portal (the official public health portal of the European Union) and the wide range of information and data on health-related issues and activities at both European and international level. The main objective of this thematic Portal is to provide European citizens with easy… Continue Reading
