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Magazine articles on politics and society in the United States.
Current United States Articles
Chemistry World
August 5, 2008
Rebecca Trager
EPA Nanosafety Scheme Fails to Attract Industry The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing criticism after its voluntary nanosafety program attracted less interest from industry than anticipated. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
August 4, 2008
Pete Mitchell
Vaccine failures shake up HIV research Prospects for an HIV vaccine have receded with the July decision by the US government National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel trials of its main vaccine candidate. mark for My Articles similar articles
Sports Central
August 4, 2008
Diane M. Grassi
Gaming Congress, Yanks Could Strike Out The issues raised with the public financing of the new Yankee Stadium in Bronx, NY may have a broad impact for cities across the United States. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
August 2008
Gregory Bresiger
A Taxing Solution Roger Lowenstein's pitch for more government-financed health care and retirement benefits will make things worse. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Europe
July 31, 2008
Amy Sullivan
The Battle for Michigan To fully grasp why the economy is the first, last and only issue on the minds of Michigan voters this year, one fact reveals all: two months after the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup, there is no waiting list for season tickets. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Europe
July 31, 2008
Ramesh Ponnuru
Crushing on Obama Frustrated by his inability to get attention amid the wall-to-wall coverage of Barack Obama's foreign tour, McCain released a Web ad accusing journalists of nursing crushes on the Democrat. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Europe
July 31, 2008
Massimo Calabresi
The Bush Diplomacy Surge Washington has dramatically changed course overseas, agreeing to diplomatic concessions it once derided as softheaded and dangerous -- including the possibility of a phased withdrawal from Iraq. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
July 31, 2008
Arlene Weintraub
Teaching Doctors--or Selling to Them? Drugmakers worried about conflicts of interest back away from their sponsorship of continuing education. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
July 31, 2008
Roger O. Crockett
Plugging America's Broadband Gap An FCC proposal could boost U.S. competitiveness by giving each household high-speed Web access. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
July 31, 2008
ACSI's E-Government Satisfaction Index Shows Improvement Citizen satisfaction with federal government websites ended a losing streak by improving for the first time in a year. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2008
David Lee Smith
America Needs a True Energy Policy Without an energy policy, the market's aggressive gyrations seem certain to remain. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 30, 2008
Erik Sofge
L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One? The quake preparedness of Los Angeles was put to the test yesterday, but only barely. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Laurie J. Schmidt
To Test Houses vs. Hurricanes, Lab Will Simulate 155-mph Storm Rather than wait for another Katrina, Stephen Leatherman and his colleagues at the International Hurricane Research Center in Miami are putting a full-scale hurricane inside a lab. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
Megan Pacella
Putting Up a Fight NFIB member testifies on taxes before U.S. Senate committee. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
McCain Addresses Summit Attendees McCain promises to help, not hinder, small business. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
NFIB Leads Fight Against Paid Sick Leave NFIB plans to hold rallies against paid sick leave initiatives in key states. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
Court Strikes Down Pro-Union Laws Supreme court rules California employers can communicate with employees during union organization drives. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
Speaking Out NFIB members share their top five small business election priorities. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
Congress Takes Critical Next Step New bill allows small businesses and self-employed to form nationwide pool to purchase insurance. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
NFIB Hosts Fix-It Forums Town halls held across the country demonstrate impact of crushing healthcare costs to small businesses, and underscore need for reform. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
Healthcare Solutions Examined at Summit Attendees at this year's National Small Business Summit participated in an interactive healthcare panel to provide Congress with input as lawmakers consider policy solutions for the small business community. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Aug/Sep 2008
Todd Stottlemyer
Business First It's time for the presidential candidates to commit to a position on healthcare costs for small business owners. mark for My Articles similar articles
HBS Working Knowledge
July 30, 2008
Mihir A. Desai
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI American financial executives are courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth funds, for new investments. Should these investments draw increased scrutiny from U.S. regulators? Economics says that FDI should be encouraged. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Donald Jay Korn
Labels Under Fire Regulators are making it clear that advisors who use the word "senior" or various synonyms to transact business unethically are squarely in their sights. mark for My Articles similar articles
Home Theater
July 29, 2008
FCC Says Yes to Sirius/XM Merger Following a long and contentious debate, the Federal Communications Commission has OKed the merger of the Sirius and XM satellite radio networks. mark for My Articles similar articles
ifeminists
July 29, 2008
Carey Roberts
Another Way Shelter Headed for a Meltdown? What follows is an account of three Queen Bees, a demoralized and depleted staff, and a shelter in disarray. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2008
Morgan Housel
So Much for the Stimulus Package The federal budget deficit is now estimated to come close to $490 billion, That's quite a leap from the $400 billion or so expected this year. Part of the cause of the jump? The stimulus package, of course. mark for My Articles similar articles
AFP eWire
July 28, 2008
Bill Calls for Tax Incentives to Aid Midwest Flood Victims A new bill in Congress would give federal tax relief for charitable donations that aid the Midwest following the catastrophic flooding and tornados in that region. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2008
David Lee Smith
Is Housing Rounding a Bend? The housing rescue package, though flawed, could change the sector's course. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Europe
July 24, 2008
Lisa Mclaughlin
Inner-City Farms There is an urban agricultural boom underway in the U.S., where rising food and fuel prices are making city farming seem less and less outlandish. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Melanie Waddell
Wheels of Blueprint In Motion The SEC and the Federal Reserve Board's recent Memorandum of Understanding marks a first step; but Congress says more stringent financial services regulations are warranted. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 25, 2008
Michael Milstein
Beyond Wind Plan, Pickens Eyes Pipelines in Drought-Ridden U.S. Billionaire hedge-fund manager T. Boone Pickens testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday to outline his new wind-power plan, but it's a water pipeline initiative that could reshape the landscape of Texas' drought dilemma. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Asia
July 24, 2008
Jonathan Mahler
Salim Hamdan: Enemy Number One A Yemeni man in his late 30s, Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, was at the center of perhaps the Supreme Court's most important decision on presidential power ever. mark for My Articles similar articles
BusinessWeek
July 24, 2008
Palmeri & Aston
Power Surge As electricity costs spike and demand taxes the grid, some states are eyeing ways to insulate consumers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 24, 2008
SEC Versus Fed: Who Should Regulate Investment Banks? In the wake of the sub-prime crisis and near-collapse of Bear Stearns in mid-March, regulatory reform for investment banks has become a popular topic in Washington and on Wall Street. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Asia
July 24, 2008
Inbox Readers respond to an article about American patriotism. mark for My Articles similar articles
TIME Europe
July 23, 2008
Adam Smith
Abu Dhabi: Rising Power Flush with profits from huge oil and gas reserves, sovereign wealth funds like the Mubadala Development Company from Abu Dhabi have been on quite a spree of late, particularly in the U.S. mark for My Articles similar articles
PC Magazine
July 18, 2008
Sascha Segan
Copyrights--and Wrongs Endless copyright terms don't promote creativity, they stifle it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
Robert Gates
Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
Henrietta Holsman Fore
Aligning "Soft" with "Hard" Power The importance of collaboration between American development agencies and the US military and how to drive those collaborations deeper into the US Agency for International Development (USAID). mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
J. Boone Bartholomees
Theory of Victory The security profession needs a basic theoretical construct within which to think about winning wars. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
Kenneth Payne
Waging Communication War This article sets out to explore the ramifications of poor communication and lack of support of the population in a modern war. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
Making Revolutionary Change: Airpower in COIN Today The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are air wars as well as ground wars. Airpower has played a critical role in counterinsurgency combat. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
Fred T. Krawchuk
Collaborative Strategic Planning and Action: A New Approach The complexity of the contemporary US security environment demands a new, comprehensive way of assessing and contending with the ongoing challenges. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
Robert M. Chamberlain
With Friends Like These: Grievance, Governance, and Capacity-Building in COIN This article questions the assumption that enhancing the power of the state will make the population less likely to support insurgents. mark for My Articles similar articles
Parameters
Summer 2008
Josh Kerbel
Lost for Words: The Intelligence Community's Struggle to Find its Voice The intelligence community looked introspectively at itself and found self-identity issues staring back with unnerving intensity. mark for My Articles similar articles
Bank Director
3rd Quarter 2008
Charles Keenan
A New Balance of Power What would the Paulson blueprint for regulatory reform mean for community banks? mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
August 2008
Adam Rogers
This NASA Astronaut Was 'Too Busy to Be Scared' Astronaut Peggy Whitson describes her recent harrowing descent to earth. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
August 2008
David Hirschman
The T Train: NYC Will Get Its First New Subway Line in 70 Years Proposed in 1929, the new subway line will unite the Upper and Lower East Sides. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
August 2008
Brian Ashcraft
15th Anniversary: Absinthe Goes From Banned Drug to Legal Liquor Once thought to have hallucinogenic effects, Absinthe now gets a clean bill of health from the US. mark for My Articles similar articles
ifeminists
July 22, 2008
Carey Roberts
Moms, Don't Take Your Kids to an Abuse Shelter Cases of unimaginable abuse to children in abuse shelters. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
July 21, 2008
Thomas Goetz
How the Personal Genome Project Could Unlock the Mysteries of Life The project will turn information from 100,000 subjects into a huge database that can reveal the connections between our genes and our physical selves. Here's how. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
July 21, 2008
Jonathan Stevenson
Tackling al Qaeda Where It Thrives -- Online America's current counterterrorism measures can do no more than tenuously contain a threat whose radical ideology spreads like a virus through cyberspace. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2008
Courtney E. Howard
iWar Technology companies devise innovations to help combat the growing threat of information warfare. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2008
Courtney E. Howard
Army Settles on Final Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon System for Future Combat Systems The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program has logged a milestone by integrating the first FCS manned ground vehicle (MGV) Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C) prototype. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.
Global Warming, Security and Energy: A Relevant Intersection Global warming and its relation to our security is discussed mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Energy Policy Needed ASAP, Don't Call It Manhattan Project There are too many different "vested interests" in how we deal with energy security. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Washington Pulse Biological attacks on the horizon, warns expert... MRAP trucks' glass debris is hazardous to troops... Report: military should help fight gangsters... Drink the Kool-Aid, save the environment... mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Peck & Ybarra
Security Beat Domestic counter-IED office poised for expansion... Cargo screening mandate to come with high price tag... Senators call for emergency cell phone alert system... Biodefense dollars not going where needed, experts warn... mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Future Combat Systems Accelerated, One More Time Watchers of the Army's largest ever high-tech weapons project, the Future Combat Systems, may have experienced a classic case of deja vu last month -- when the service announced its latest plan to rush FCS technologies to the front lines. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Stew Magnuson
Coast Guard Takes Troubled New Cutter on Grand Tour The month of June marked the coming out party for the Coast Guard's shiny new national security cutter -- the Bertholf. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Alan L. Gropman
U.S. At Risk of Losing Global Lead in Information Technology There is a perceived need within the information technology and communications industries to develop a homegrown labor force, not only for the viability of the economy and the industry, but also for national security requirements. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Stew Magnuson
Climate Change Fears Spill Over To The Defense Community Politicians and environmentalists who want to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions pumped into the atmosphere are using this argument to woo conservative skeptics to their side in the ongoing energy/global warming debate. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Matthew Rusling
Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Oil Wars and Climate Woes: Two Sides of the Same Coin If rising waters and violent storms whipped into oblivion a key U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia, would such a catastrophe qualify as a national security crisis or as a climate change scourge? mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Matthew Rusling
Oil Is Out; Is Nuclear In? Put yourself in an imaginary time machine and set the dial to around the year 2040. The exorbitant price of oil, now at $500 a barrel, has pushed a good chunk of the globe toward nuclear power. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Grace V. Jean
Predator Ground Stations Need Redesign, Say Pilots The demands for aerial surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan grow by the day, and that means more Predator unmanned aircraft and pilots are needed. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Grace V. Jean
Reaper Drones Accomplishing Traditional Fighter Jet Missions Since they were first deployed as reconnaissance and attack aircraft, the Predators have been credited with helping to change the tide in counterinsurgency operations. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
Sandra I. Erwin
Drones in The Military: Infatuation or True Love? Unmanned aircraft will remain an important component in the aerospace industry, but the military is still uncertain how to integrate them into their plans. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
August 2008
John Stafford & David Goodwin
Revised Rules for Battlefield Contractors The expansion of the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000 and the Uniform Code of Military Justice has complicated the legal environment for U.S. contractors co-located with military forces abroad. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
July 21, 2008
Barbara Quint
Voters and Public Library Funding: An OCLC Market Research Report Public libraries are in trouble. Costs and demands for their services continue to rise, while revenue and support for maintaining, much less increasing, financial support continue to sink. mark for My Articles similar articles
CFO
July 15, 2008
Leibs & Reason
IFRS and When The SEC may decide soon whether and when U.S. companies will switch to international accounting standards. And it's a good thing, as panic from not knowing the date is percolating. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 15, 2008
Phaedra Hise
Mini Reactors Show Promise for Clean Nuclear Power's Future If new portable reactors get the green light this month, nuclear energy could be rolled out in the furthest reaches of the United States. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
Aug/Sep 2008
Tim Cavanaugh
The (Diminishing) Return of Pandering Politicians keep doling out giveaways to a public that increasingly doesn't want any. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2008
Kristen French
Post Bear, Regulatory Reform May Squeeze Brokerage Margins Could increased regulation of the brokerage industry in the wake of the subprime crisis and Bear Stearns debacle tighten the screws on brokerage business revenues and margins? mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 9, 2008
Jeff Wise
Mechanic: Obama's Plane Could Have 'Lost Control' in Anomaly Sen. Barack Obama's MD-80 aircraft made a surprise landing on Monday morning due to controllability issues. mark for My Articles similar articles
Outside
July 2008
Ben Paynter
Green Up This Mess Can a televised environmental makeover save an obliterated Kansas farm town from vanishing again? mark for My Articles similar articles
Outside
July 2008
Grayson Schaffer
Rivers Gone Wild The West's desperate water shortage may get a year's reprieve. mark for My Articles similar articles
Humanities
Jul/Aug 2008
Meredith Hindley
How to Get a Grant From NEH Tips on getting funding in the humanities on projects ranging from documentary filmmaking to the preservation of artifacts to the develop of institutes for schoolteachers or scholarly research. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
August 2008
Lockheed, Aussies Fight for Navy's Beachhead Brawler Ship Contract The Navy is considering the Australia-based Austal and Lockheed LCS for its Littoral Combat Ship. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
Mike Alissi
List: Rough Gravel Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel grumbled his way through every Democratic debate until October, when he was excluded because of his low totals in the polls. He offers three lessons he learned from his experience as a major-party candidate. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
Matt Welch
The Uses of Hyperbole Exaggerated doomsday forecasts are false, regrettable, inevitable, and possibly necessary. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Jacob Sullum
No Shit The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to review the FCC's policy regarding dirty words on the air, which a federal appeals court has deemed "arbitrary and capricious." mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Kerry Howley
Striking Distance Few states have enforced the "three strikes" law with as much zeal as California. But thanks to perverse incentives built into the legislation, the law may encourage some of those offenders to commit more-violent crimes in the future. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward
Data: Meth Math The nation's largest drug testing company reports that the share of job applicants and employees testing positive for methamphetamine fell 22 percent between 2006 and 2007. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Cory Doctorow
List: Revolution for Kids! These three political books have been recommended for young adults. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Kerry Howley
Rent-a-Pet An Act Prohibiting the Rental of Pets, now in committee in the Massachusetts state legislature, seeks to fight part-time pet ownership. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Oren Grad
Gentler Failure What's the best way to deal with chronically failing schools? In Massachusetts, apparently, the answer is to come up with a kinder word for failure. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
David Weigel
Permanent rEVOLution By the end of the 2008 elections, as many as 40 self-proclaimed Ron Paul Republicans will have run for national office. They want to carve out a permanent place in Republican politics, regardless of whether the party wants them to be there. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Greg Beato
Free the Fireworks! Blowing up huge caches of fireworks doesn't just celebrate our freedom; it certifies it -- a patriotic act our Founding Fathers would have readily endorsed. mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
July 2008
Paul Thornton
Rant: The War on Renters In their attempt to "keep Americans in their homes," Clinton, Obama, and McCain have all called for the federal government to spend billions of dollars to curtail foreclosures. Makes you think the candidates are on your side. Not if you're a renter. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 2, 2008
Rebecca Trager
Futuregen Re-Launched Amidst Congressional Enquiry The US Department of Energy has announced that it has restructured and reinstated FutureGen, its flagship clean coal research program, with a focus on the challenges associated with control of the emissions of carbon and six other pollutants. mark for My Articles similar articles
Home Theater
July 2, 2008
HD Radio Stations: More Power, Please FM stations are lobbying the FCC for permission to boost their signals and expand their audience. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 2, 2008
David Noland
Could One Email Have Stopped a $1.4B Stealth Bomber Crash? The spectacular crash of a B-2 stealth bomber in February could have been prevented by a simple, unofficial "bootleg" maintenance procedure that some ground crews have used for years. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 1, 2008
Rebecca Trager
US research agencies get extra millions The US research community has won an extra $400 million for four science agencies, after successfully arguing that the nation's scientific enterprise is in a state of emergency. mark for My Articles similar articles
Global Services
June 30, 2008
Imrana Khan
The Pro-outsourcing Candidate of the Year 2008 Offshoring destinations, especially China and India, have been attracting many projects from American multinationals, which results job losses in the U.S. Therefore, the candidates often use offshoring as a tool to win the election. But who is the pro-outsourcing candidate of them all? mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 30, 2008
Glenn Derene
Inside NSA Red Team Secret Ops With Government's Top Hackers Highly skilled firewall-crackers help the government keep the bad guys out of the country's computer systems. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 30, 2008
Erik Sofge
FBI's Next-Gen ID Databank to Store Face Scans--A Good Idea? Lockheed Martin is building a massive digital warehouse of criminal information, set to bring facial recognition and eye scans to local law enforcement. Privacy advocates say there's reason for law-abiding citizens to worry. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
Sally Adee
U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
Willie D. Jones
Ocean Power Catches a Wave Europe and New Zealand to install commercial generators, but U.S. slow to respond. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
July 2008
Robert W. Lucky
Zero Privacy Almost a decade ago Scott McNealy, chairman and cofounder of Sun Microsystems, famously told reporters, "you have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 30, 2008
Erik Sofge
Taser Builds AXON Cop Headcams to Fend Off Abuse Allegations After a successful test run in England, Taser hopes to begin selling its new lightweight headset to local law enforcement in the U.S. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 26, 2008
John Churchill
Tough Morning For Brokerage Sector Stomachs are surely turning at the wirehouse brokerage firms this morning. mark for My Articles similar articles
Fast Company
July 2008
Josh Dean
The Personality Behind Online Gaming Site Bodog Mountains of cash, beautiful women, and a nonstop round-the-world party. Life was good for Calvin Ayre, founder and promoter of the online gambling powerhouse Bodog. Then he was gone. Was U.S. regulation a factor? mark for My Articles similar articles
Fast Company
July 2008
Clayton Neuman
Democrats in Denver; Republicans in St. Paul Both parties chose states that will be crucial battlegrounds in November. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Robert F. Keane
Energy Is in the Air In spite of Washington's inaction, wind farms could go a long way toward reducing carbon emissions mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Marlene Y. Satter
One Forward, Two Back? The Department of the Treasury released its Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure, which sets forth an argument for the need for change in the financial services industry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 26, 2008
Joe Pappalardo
Shift on Future Combat Systems Will Rush High-Tech Gear to Iraq Pentagon officials announced big changes for its closely watched Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, aiming to bring combat sensors and robots to the battlefield more quickly. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2008
John McHale
Unstable and uncertain world drives military technology investment Two major wars and significant global instability ensure a need for spending on defense technology. Remarks by Peter Cavill at the 2008 Critical Embedded Systems Mediafest last month. mark for My Articles similar articles
Nonprofit Quarterly
Rick Cohen
"Greenlining" Foundation Grantmaking: Racial Equality Reporting in California Just as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act requires banks to report on their mortgages and loans, should philanthropic redlining in U.S. philanthropy be remedied by a mandatory reporting regime? mark for My Articles similar articles
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Michael Sisk
A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is. mark for My Articles similar articles
Information Today
June 26, 2008
Barbara Quint
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program. mark for My Articles similar articles
U.S. NHTSA
June 26, 2008
Nicole Nason
Statement On the Adoption of Electronic Stability Control as a Global Technical Regulation United Nation approves the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's recommendation to adopt electronic stability control systems as a worldwide regulation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Inc.
July 2008
Max Chafkin
A Haven For Virtual Companies The state of Vermont is set to become the first in the nation to offer a legal framework for virtual companies. mark for My Articles similar articles
Search Engine Watch
June 25, 2008
Kevin Ryan
Yahoo's Suicide Pact with Google Who cares if Yahoo outsources its search advertising to Google? You should. On what planet is having only one place to buy anything a good thing for competitive pricing? mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
June 23, 2008
Vince Beiser
Pistol Cam: When Cops Draw This Point-and-Shoot, Say Cheese In an effort to address public concerns about police accountability, the sheriff's department SWAT team in Orange County, New York, recently started packing cameras on their pistols. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
June 23, 2008
Ben Paynter
Feeding the Masses: Data In, Crop Predictions Out Last October, agricultural consultancy Lanworth not only correctly projected that the US Department of Agriculture had overestimated the nation's corn crop, it nailed the margin: roughly 200 million bushels. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Jun/Jul 2008
Get Involved in This Election View the 2008 list of federal candidates who have been officially endorsed by the National Federation of Independent Business Save America's Free Enterprise Trust. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Jun/Jul 2008
Mary Peters
Tolls Can Save Our Road System The U.S. Secretary of Transportation advocates tolling as a way to raise funds to improve our nation's outdated infrastructure. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Jun/Jul 2008
Divided We Fail Hitting the Road The National Federation of Independent Business joins Divided We Fail to engage the American people, elected officials, and the business community to find broad-based, bipartisan solutions to the nation's healthcare problem. mark for My Articles similar articles
MyBusiness
Jun/Jul 2008
NFIB Brings Leaders Together As part of its "Solutions Start Here" Campaign, the National Federation of Independent Business has convened a series of health policy forums to generate dialogue on the future of healthcare. mark for My Articles similar articles
Philanthropy
May 5, 2008
Adam Meyerson
Expanding Our Commitment to Philanthropic Freedom The public policy division of The Philanthropy Roundtable represents the cause of philanthropic freedom in media, nonprofit, and academic debates -- to anticipate and respond to emerging issues before they reach the level of legislation. mark for My Articles similar articles
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