Archive for December, 2008

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 11:22am

Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2005

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Available online.
“CDC began abortion surveillance in 1969 to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions. This report summarizes and describes data voluntarily reported to CDC regarding legal induced abortions obtained in the United States in 2005.”
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 11:09am

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States, 2007

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U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Available online.
Annual report presents the EIA’s “latest estimates of emissions for carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases.”
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 4:03pm

World at Risk

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Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.
Available online.
The Commission centered its findings on several areas where it determined the risks to the United States are increasing: the crossroads of terrorism and proliferation in the poorly governed parts of Pakistan, the prevention of biological and nuclear terrorism, and the [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 9:59am

Household Food Security in the United States, 2007

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
Available online.
“Since 1995, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has collected information annually on food spending, food access and adequacy, and sources of food assistance for the U.S. population. The information is collected in an annual food security survey, conducted as a supplement to the nationally representative [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 9:34am

Global Trends 2025: The National Intelligence Council’s 2025 Project

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U.S. National Intelligence Council.
Available online.
The fourth unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. “It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next 15 years to influence world events. Our report is not meant [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 9:02am

2008 Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories

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U.S. Small Business Administration.
Available online.
A portrait of the economic condition and activities of how small businesses performed in their respective states and how they are important their local economies and that of the United States. This annual profile contains sections on the following topics: the number of firms, industry composition, small business income, banking, business [...]

Monday, December 1st, 2008 at 12:20pm

Airbrushing History, American Style

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Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois.
Available online.
Study finds the ephemeral nature of documents presented online in the White House Web site. The authors “are the first to show a pattern of changes in documents over time, but note that others have, on previous occasions, pointed to suspicious changes to archived documents on the [...]

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