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New Rand Reports: The Victims of Terrorism and Project AIR FORCE Annual Report 2007

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  • The Victims of Terrorism An Assessment of Their Influence and Growing Role in Policy, Legislation, and the Private Sector, by Bruce Hoffman, Anna-Britt Kasupski (66 pages, PDF): “Little attention and analysis have focused on terrorism victims, including survivors. This report focuses on the organized groups of families and friends that have emerged since September 11, 2001, to become a powerful voice in U.S. counterterrorist policy and legislation. These groups were remarkably successful in getting the 9/11 Commission established as well as the enactment of the commission’s most important recommendations. This report documents these groups’ number and diversity, their wide disparity in mission and services, in addition to the effectiveness of their strategies for achieving their missions. It also compares the 9/11 victims’ groups to those formed in response to previous terrorist attacks both in the United States and abroad, highlighting the lessons the 9/11 groups learned from these precedents and the differences between 9/11 groups and those that preceded them.”
  • RAND Project AIR FORCE Annual Report 2007 (61 pages, PDF): “For 60 years, RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF) has offered an integrated program of objective, independent analysis on issues of enduring concern to Air Force leaders. Current research focuses on strategy and doctrine; aerospace force development; manpower, personnel, and training; and resource management. This report offers highlights from PAF’s fiscal year 2006–2007 efforts, which addressed such key issues as the role of building partner capacity in a successful counterinsurgency strategy, identifying ways to reduce U.S. exposure to potential space attacks, assessing the right number and mix of fighter pilots, mitigating the effects of a potential Chinese antiaccess strategy in the western Pacific, making the system of air and space operations centers more flexible and efficient, learning lessons from Iraq’s weak resistance to the Coalition invasion, and examining the Air Force’s investment in test and evaluation infrastructure.”

    • New Monthly Update on Health Care Policy Research and Analysis

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    “Health Policy Picks is a monthly selection of recent publications, such as technical reports, conference proceedings, and other material produced by organizations and government agencies that conduct health care policy analysis and research. Health Policy Picks is a partnership between KaiserEDU.org and the New York Academy of Medicine Library’s Grey Literature Collection…This month’s Health Policy… Continue Reading

    2007 UN AIDS Epidemic Update

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    Press release: “New data show global HIV prevalence—the percentage of people living with HIV—has levelled off and that the number of new infections has fallen, in part as a result of the impact of HIV programmes. However, in 2007 33.2 million [30.6 – 36.1 million] people were estimated to be living with HIV, 2.5 million… Continue Reading

    Bureau of Justice Statistics: Unidentified Human Remains in the United States, 1980-2004

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    Unidentified Human Remains in the United States, 1980-2004, November 2007: “Examines the number of unidentified persons reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Death Index (NDI), by State, from 1980 to 2004. This report also looks at the number of unidentified human remains reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI)… Continue Reading

    The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web

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    The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web – “In this research study, Nemertes performed an independent in-depth analysis of Internet and IP infrastructure (which we call capacity) and current and projected traffic (which we call demand) with the goal of understanding how each has changed over time,… Continue Reading

    Report Documents Top 100 Private Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

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    Center for Public Integrity: “It’s been four years since the Center released its acclaimed Windfalls of War investigation, which first named Halliburton as the largest single contractor in Iraq and revealed the most comprehensive list of the top Iraq and Afghanistan contractors available at the time. That list included more than 70 American companies that… Continue Reading

    Federal Agencies Continue to Improve Financial Reporting Results

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    OMB: “For the third year in a row, all major Federal agencies successfully met the 45-day financial audit deadline as required by the rigorous reporting guidelines set by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Since 2001, agencies are required to complete the financial report 45-days after the end of the Fiscal Year, compared to… Continue Reading

    Bureau of Justice Statistics: Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants in State Courts

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    Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants in State Courts, November 2007: “Presents findings on the pretrial release phase of the criminal justice process using data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the 75 largest U.S. counties in May during even-numbered years from 1990 to 2004. It includes trends on pretrial release rates… Continue Reading

    CBO Director’s Presentation on Climate Change

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    CBO Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director, Issues in Climate Change, Presentation for the CBO Director’s Conference on Climate Change, November 16, 2007, November 16, 2007 “Global climate change is one of the nation’s most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activities are producing increasingly large quantities of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2). The accumulation… Continue Reading

    New Free Online Consumer Health Portal From Publishers of PDR

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    Press release: “Thomson Healthcare, publisher of the definitive drug resource for physicians, the Physicians’ Desk Reference…announced the launch of PDRhealth.com, an online health Web site for the more than 80 percent of consumers that use the Internet to search for health information. Developed for consumers, PDRhealth.com is based on the same information platform that Thomson… Continue Reading

    Senate Finance Committee Releases Report on Investigation of Avandia

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    Prepared Statement of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) Regarding the Finance Committee Investigation of Avandia, November 15, 2007: “We place a great deal of trust in pharmaceutical companies to make safe and effective products.The health of millions of Americans, from young children to retirees, depends on the careful work of these drug manufacturers. Today, Senator Grassley… Continue Reading