Knowledge Discovery Resources 2007 – An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation, by Marcus P. Zillman LLRX.com Guide to State and Federal Legislative Research, by Sabrina I. Pacifici LawPro Links – An A to Z Directory of Web Resources, by Sabrina I. Pacifici Commentary: The Real Costs of America’s Nuclear Power Program and the Impact on… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 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
Boxer to Introduce Passengers' Bill of Rights
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… Continue Reading
DHS Forms Partnership with NSF for Academic Research Initiative on Domestic Nuclear Detection
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,… Continue Reading
Law School Deans Call for Judicial Pay Raises
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.” Continue Reading
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
“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… Continue Reading
