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September 18, 2006

Foreign Workers: Information on Selected Countries' Experiences

U.S. General Accountancy Office.
Available online. Printed copy ordered.
"This report examines selected countries' (1) programs for admitting foreign workers; (2) efforts to limit the employment of unauthorized foreign workers; and (3) programs for providing unauthorized immigrants with an opportunity to obtain legal status, referred to as regularization."
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Do Local Owners Deliver More Localism? Some Evidence from Local Broadcast News

U.S. Federal Election Commission.
Available online.
Apparently, the FCC suppressed a research report which indicated that local ownership of media outlets results in more coverage of local news than when such outlets are not locally owned. The above link takes you to a Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting page describing the controversy, with a link to the recently-discovered FCC document (now on the FCC Web site) here.
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September 11, 2006

Postwar Findings About Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How They Compare with Prewar Assessments

U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Available online.
Unclassified version of report, released along with an examination of intelligence us information provided by the Iraqi National Congress, available here.
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2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Available online.
Annual statistical report covers alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, demographic analyses, and much more. A press release overview is here.
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The Effects of Increasing Chinese Demand on Global Commodity Markets

U.S. International Trade Commission.
Available online. Printed copy ordered.
Substantial report examines petroleum, forest products, scrap metal, and more.
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September 5, 2006

National Stategy for Combatting Terrorism

U.S. National Security Council.
Available online.
The U.S. Government's first update of the 2003 National Strategy for Combating Terrorism and "incorporates our increased understanding of the enemy."
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September 4, 2006

State Department's Future of Iraq Project

National Security Archive/U.S. State Department.
Available online.
George Washington University's National Security Archive (not a government agency) has released the contents of documents generally referred to as the State Department's Future of Iraq plans, compiled before the invasion of Iraq. Materials were obtained through Freedom of Information Act procedures.
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