Key Facts about Swine Influenza (Swine Flu): “Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930.”
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Daily Archives: April 25, 2009
Sen. Specter: The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs
New York Review of Books: The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs, By Arlen Specter, April 16, 2009 “In the seven and a half years since September 11, the United States has witnessed one of the greatest expansions of executive authority in its history, at the expense of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers.… Continue Reading
University Endowments Plummet as Much as 50%
New York Review of Books – The Universities in Trouble, By Andrew Delbanco “Since the financial meltdown began to accelerate last summer, the world has changed utterly for colleges and universities just as it has for everyone who had not been stashing cash under the mattress. Along with failing banks, auto manufacturers, and insurance companies,… Continue Reading
OCLC: – Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want
“In 2008, OCLC conducted focus groups, administered a pop-up survey on WorldCat.orgOCLCs freely available end user interface on the Weband conducted a Web-based survey of librarians worldwide. The report, Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want, presents findings from these research efforts in order to understand: The metadata elements that are most important to end… Continue Reading
CBO: Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
Background Paper: How CBO Estimates the Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions, April 2009 “Households and businesses in a modern industrial economy like that of the United States emit a number of different greenhouse gases through a wide variety of activitiesany or all of which might be regulated under a mitigation program. The Environmental Protection Agency… Continue Reading
