“Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) Internships, announced by Secretary Clinton at the 2009 New York University commencement speech, are part of a growing effort by the State Department to harness technology and a commitment to global service among young people to facilitate new forms of diplomatic engagement. The VSFS Internships will be developed over the next year and will seek to harness the energy of a rising generation of citizen diplomats.”
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Daily Archives: May 13, 2009
CBO: Alternatives for Modernizing U.S. Fighter Forces, May 2009
CBO Study: Alternatives for Modernizing U.S. Fighter Forces, May 2009 “This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study looks at the composition of todays fighter fleets and at how the Department of Defenses (DoDs) plans for modernizing fighter forcesas set forth in the Bush Administrations 2009 Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) and other DoD documentswould affect inventories… Continue Reading
Treasury: Regulatory Reform Over-The-Counter (OTC) Derivatives
News release: “The crisis of the past 20 months has exposed critical gaps and weaknesses in our financial regulatory system. As risks built up, internal risk management systems, rating agencies and regulators simply did not understand or address critical behaviors until they had already resulted in catastrophic losses. Those failures have caused a dramatic loss… Continue Reading
National Gang Threat Assessment 2009 Released
News release: “According to the 2009 National Gang Threat Assessment released by the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) and the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), approximately one million gang members belonging to more than 20,000 gangs were criminally active in the U.S. as of September 2008. The assessment was developed through analysis of available federal,… Continue Reading
The Lancet's H1N1 Resource Centre
TheLancet.com: “The emergence in Mexico in April of a new strain of influenza A H1N1 (swine flu) capable of causing human disease and of person-to-person transmission has put health authorities around the world on alert for an influenza pandemic, and caused a storm of coverage in the mass media. Outside Mexico, the disease caused by… Continue Reading
HUD Makes Nearly $1 Billion Available in Recovery Act Funds to Improve Public Housing
News release: “U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Donovan announced that HUD is offering nearly $1 billion to make substantial improvements to thousands of public housing units nationwide. The Public Housing Capital Funds being offered are provided through The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) and are designed to help… Continue Reading
Rand: Review of the European Data Protection Directive
Review of the European Data Protection Directive, by Neil Robinson, Hans Graux, Maarten Botterman, Lorenzo Valeri “The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) asked a multidisciplinary international research team led by RAND Europe with time-lex and GNKS-Consult to review the strengths and weaknesses of the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and propose avenues for improvement. The Directive… Continue Reading
CDC: Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States
CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, Changing Patterns of Nonmarital Childbearing in the United States, May 2009 “Childbearing among unmarried women has been the subject of intense public policy and public health concern for decades, much of it reflecting concerns about the impact on family structure and the economic security of children. Nonmarital births are at… Continue Reading
