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Daily Archives: February 19, 2007
CBO Testimony on Future Medical Spending by the Department of Veterans Affairs
CBO Testimony – Statement of Allison Percy, Principal Analyst, Future Medical Spending by the Department of Veterans Affairs before the Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives, February 15, 2007. Continue Reading
Prison Growth Could Cost Up to $27.5 Billion Over Next 5 Years
“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… Continue Reading
Pew Research: How Reliable Are the Early Presidential Polls?
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… Continue Reading
New Campaign Champions Changes In Medical Prescribing To End Conflicts Of Interest
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… Continue Reading
Google Publishes Study on Failure Rates of Hard Disk Drives
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… Continue Reading
Congresswoman DeLauro and Sen. Durbin Reintroduce Safe Food Act
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… Continue Reading
Pew Research Center Survey: War Support Slips, Fewer Expect a Successful Outcome
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… Continue Reading
