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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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
MyBusiness Aug/Sep 2008 Megan Pacella |
Putting Up a Fight NFIB member testifies on taxes before U.S. Senate committee.  |
MyBusiness Aug/Sep 2008 |
McCain Addresses Summit Attendees McCain promises to help, not hinder, small business.  |
MyBusiness Aug/Sep 2008 |
NFIB Leads Fight Against Paid Sick Leave NFIB plans to hold rallies against paid sick leave initiatives in key states.  |
MyBusiness Aug/Sep 2008 |
Court Strikes Down Pro-Union Laws Supreme court rules California employers can communicate with employees during union organization drives.  |
MyBusiness Aug/Sep 2008 |
Speaking Out NFIB members share their top five small business election priorities.  |
MyBusiness Aug/Sep 2008 |
Congress Takes Critical Next Step New bill allows small businesses and self-employed to form nationwide pool to purchase insurance.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
TIME Asia July 24, 2008 |
Inbox Readers respond to an article about American patriotism.  |
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.  |
PC Magazine July 18, 2008 Sascha Segan |
Copyrights--and Wrongs Endless copyright terms don't promote creativity, they stifle it.  |
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.  |
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).  |
Parameters Summer 2008 J. Boone Bartholomees |
Theory of Victory The security profession needs a basic theoretical construct within which to think about winning wars.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2008 Charles Keenan |
A New Balance of Power What would the Paulson blueprint for regulatory reform mean for community banks?  |
Wired August 2008 Adam Rogers |
This NASA Astronaut Was 'Too Busy to Be Scared' Astronaut Peggy Whitson describes her recent harrowing descent to earth.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
iWar Technology companies devise innovations to help combat the growing threat of information warfare.  |
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.  |
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  |
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.  |
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...  |
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...  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
Outside July 2008 Ben Paynter |
Green Up This Mess Can a televised environmental makeover save an obliterated Kansas farm town from vanishing again?  |
Outside July 2008 Grayson Schaffer |
Rivers Gone Wild The West's desperate water shortage may get a year's reprieve.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Reason Matt Welch |
The Uses of Hyperbole Exaggerated doomsday forecasts are false, regrettable, inevitable, and possibly necessary.  |
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."  |
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.  |
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.  |
Reason July 2008 Cory Doctorow |
List: Revolution for Kids! These three political books have been recommended for young adults.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Sally Adee |
U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes  |
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.  |
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."  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. June 26, 2008 John Churchill |
Tough Morning For Brokerage Sector Stomachs are surely turning at the wirehouse brokerage firms this morning.  |
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?  |
Fast Company July 2008 Clayton Neuman |
Democrats in Denver; Republicans in St. Paul Both parties chose states that will be crucial battlegrounds in November.  |
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  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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