WashingtonPost.com: “Over the past six years, Cheney has shaped his times as no vice president has before. This…four-part series…explores his methods and impact, drawing on interviews with more than 200 men and women who worked for, with or in opposition to Cheney’s office. Many of those interviewed recounted events that have not been made public… Continue Reading
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Special Report Examines Role of Info Industry Big Three in Web Security
NEWS.COM Special Report: Wardens of the WebTalkBack: Global security challenge falls to an elite corps, June 25, 2007 “The job of policing the Web has been left to the corporate world by default. The burden weighs heavily on a trio of companies in particular: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft–the three firms with the most traffic on… Continue Reading
Computerworld 14th Annual Survey of Best Places to Work in IT
100 Best Places to Work in IT 2007: “A sense of commitment, and connection, keeps IT staffers at these top companies jazzed up about work.” Continue Reading
PWC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2007-2011
PricewaterhouseCoopers, PWC Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2007-2011: “The leading entertainment and media industry forecast. Covering the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Canada. In-depth global analyses and 5-year growth projections for 14 industry segments.” fee, but free industry segments’ summaries are available. Continue Reading
Online Source of Consolidated Acts and Regulations of Canada
Online Source of Consolidated Acts and Regulations of Canada: “Welcome to the Department of Justices new Laws Web site. This new site is the result of the conversion to a completely new technical environment for consolidating federal Acts and regulations. The new environment makes it possible to update the data more frequently than was possible… Continue Reading
Directory and Search Engine of World's Embassies and Consulates
Directory and Search Engine of The World’s Embassies and Consulates: “Serving the diplomatic community and the online community since 1996, EmbassyWorld is designed to provide a comprehensive list of contact resources for all of the world’s diplomatic offices. Our goal is to provide an easy-to-navigate directory that is clearly laid out and fully cross-indexed. Our… Continue Reading
Encyclopedic Reference Work Cataloging all of the Worlds 6,912 Known Living Languages
Ethnologue: “An encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the worlds 6,912 known living languages.” [This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as: Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.] Far from… Continue Reading
Skelton/Conyers Introduce Habeas Reform Legislation
Press release, June 22, 2007: “House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced legislation today which would uphold the principle of habeas corpus by amending existing law to allow individuals detained, often for many years without formal charges, to have their day in court…H.R. 2826 accomplishes… Continue Reading
BJS Releases Report on Almost 2,000 Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices
Press release, Medical Examiners and Coroners’ Offices, 2004: “Presents key findings from the 2004 Census of Medical Examiners and Coroners (ME/C) Offices. This special report describes the medicolegal investigation of death in the United States. It provides an overview of the personnel, budgets, and workload of these offices by type of office and size of… Continue Reading
DOJ OIG Audit of ATF National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record, Evaluation and Inspections Report I-2007-006, June 2007 (74 pages, PDF) “The NFA Branch has significantly improved the timeliness of processing NFA weapons applications and responding to customer inquiries since 2004. However, management and technical deficiencies still exist that cause inaccuracies in… Continue Reading
DHS OIG Audit of Customs and Border Control Reponses to Chinese Human Smuggling in Maritime Cargo Containers
A Review of CBP and ICE Responses to Recent Incidents of Chinese Human Smuggling in Maritime Cargo Containers (Redacted) OIG-07-40 (PDF, 52 pages) Continue Reading
Parents, Children and Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey
“Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey, is a national survey of 1,008 parents of children ages 2-17, along with a series of six focus groups held with parents across the country. The survey explores such issues as media content, media ratings and the V-Chip, media monitoring, educational media, advertising, and the Internet.”… Continue Reading
