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Humanities Jul/Aug 2009 Donna M. Lucey	Maryland's Phoebe Stein Davis Not to be boastful (and she's not), but Phoebe Stein Davis, the executive director of the Maryland Humanities Council, lays claim to a pretty spectacular humanities pedigree.
TIME Europe July 13, 2009 Bobby Ghosh	U.S. and Russia: The Talk Starts Here When Barack Obama visits Moscow on July 6, it will be something of a rarity for the U.S. President: a rather dull trip. Obama will encounter no cheering crowds or overly excited local media.
TIME Europe July 13, 2009 Vivienne Walt	Cutting Off a Continent? Further cuts in assistance could be disastrous for Africa, which has just begun to feel the effects of the global crisis after a decade in which much of the continent saw solid economic growth.
InternetNews July 2, 2009 Christopher Saunders	Ad Groups Move to Regulate Web Tracking Key industry groups involved in Internet advertising are adopting a sweeping slate of consumer privacy measures in an effort to forestall legislation surrounding ad-targeting based on tracking online user behavior.
InternetNews July 2, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	FCC Gets to Work on Mapping Out Broadband Plan The Federal Communications Commission is moving ahead with its next great task: developing a forward-looking national broadband strategy.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Health Insurance: The New Competitive Advantage Wal-Mart is spearheading a government-backed effort to create an "employer mandate," which would force most companies to provide health insurance to employees. With Wal-Mart's size, it might have an advantage over its competitors in satisfying such a mandate.
The Motley Fool July 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	Dangerously Delaying the Inevitable In order to help the economy recover, the Obama administration relaxes the requirements for government-backed mortgage modifications.
PHONE+ July 1, 2009 Kelly M. Teal	Broadband Stimulus Funding Questions Answered On July 1, the Rural Utilities Service and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced funds available for the broadband industry. Here are some of the most common questions regarding the funds.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.
TIME Europe July 6, 2009 Barbara Kiviat	Bismarck: The Town the Recession Missed As the economy flails in most of the U.S., it's business as usual for North Dakotans. Cruising through the recession on the 47th parallel
Chemistry World July 1, 2009 Rebecca Trager	Chemical security efforts spread The EU and the US are simultaneously taking action in a bid to secure chemical facilities and prevent their misuse by terrorists.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	U.S. Official: Cybersecurity Plans Not Just Talk NSC Cybersecurity Director Christopher Painter promises real action to protect digital infrastructure after Obama's address.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Broadband Stimulus Opens With Rural Emphasis Rural Utilities Service offers up almost its whole budget in first application window; Net neutrality groups shout victory.
InternetNews July 1, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Genachowski Era Opens at the FCC New FCC chairman addresses troops on the eve of broadband stimulus, strategy announcements.
PC Magazine July 1, 2009 Chloe Albanesius	Obama's Cyberspace Crackdown The president lays out new online security measures.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Amazon Crosses Off 2 More States Two more states are turning to directly taxing Internet retailers to offset a budget shortfall.
Investment Advisor July 2009 Melanie Waddell	The Great Health Reform Debate President Barack Obama has set an ambitious deadline of October to achieve comprehensive healthcare reform.
Investment Advisor July 2009 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Reality Check Washington is far more likely to tweak the existing system than to rewrite the investment advisor legislation.
Investment Advisor July 2009 Robert F. Keane	How To Make Cap and Trade Work A successful market-based cap and trade program for carbon emissions requires a few minimum elements.
AFP eWire June 30, 2009	Help AFP Fight Proposals That Would Limit Charitable Deductions The White House continues to press for harmful limits on charitable deductions to fund healthcare reforms. AFP urges you to contact members of Congress immediately to oppose these measures.
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Obama CIO Debuts Federal IT Spending Tracker New IT dashboard provides insight into federal spending on IT investments.
Reason July 2009 Matt Welch	Why Long Beach Isn't Detroit How Southern California survived the collapse of aircraft manufacturing without a bailout
Reason July 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Roquefort Revolution Trade policy folly. Right before he left the White House, George W. Bush dealt a harsh blow to lovers of Roquefort, the finest of the stinky French blue cheeses.
Reason July 2009	Transparency Failure National security or secure lobbying?
Reason July 2009 Radley Balko	Bogus Bodega Busts Corrupt Philadelphia cops
Reason July 2009	Quotes Oddball sayings from the famous and not so famous.
Reason July 2009 Jacob Sullum	DEA Tax Collectors Medical marijuana raids
Reason July 2009 Lisa Snell	The Graduates Charter school success
Reason July 2009 Radley Balko	The Unrepentant D.A. Prosecutorial error in Santa Clara
Reason July 2009	Militia Member Memo Appalled citizens saw the report on militias distributed to state troopers as political profiling of a particularly nasty variety, one that could make cops preemptively angry and nervous when dealing with certain people.
Reason July 2009 Brian Doherty	Frisco Freak-Out A small cabal of San Francisco artists and organizers met in April to discuss how anarchic public gatherings can be carried out responsibly.
Reason July 2009 Jacob Sullum	Follow-Up: Bush-Era Porn Prosecution Ends in Guilty Plea When Robert Zicari and Janet Romano were accused of distributing obscene material in 2003, it was the first time in more than a decade that the federal government had prosecuted anyone for producing pornography involving adults.
Reason July 2009	Neighborhood Watch What do you do when a city is too cash-strapped to pay for adequate policing? If you're Chicago, you consider giving private security guards the authority to issue tickets for littering, graffiti, parking violations, and other minor infractions.
Reason July 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Twitter Teamwork Fargo flood friends
Reason July 2009 Nick Gillespie	Drug Decriminalization in Portugal Glenn Greenwald is a civil rights attorney and the author of a new Cato Institute policy study called "Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Policies."
Reason July 2009 Jacob Sullum	Drug Control Begets Gun Control The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms.
Reason July 2009 Randazzo et al.	Turning Japanese Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them?
Reason July 2009 Nancy Rommelmann	Anatomy of a Child Pornographer What happens when adults catch teenagers "sexting" photos of each other? The death of common sense.
Reason July 2009 Nick Gillespie	The Prehistory of Porn Prosecution How "licentious Gotham" gave rise to today's obscenity laws is explained in a new book by Donna Dennis.
Reason July 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Briefly Noted: The Southern Lifestyle Will Rise Again With a little luck, Garden & Gun will do for hillbilly what Wired did for geek.
Reason July 2009 Tim Cavanaugh	Briefly Noted: We Often Dream of Trains Robert S. Schleicher's coffee table history The Lionel Legend: An American Icon suggests why industries grow more politically potent as they become less important to the economy.
Reason July 2009 Clark Stooksbury	Briefly Noted: A Foreign Policy They Can't Refuse With The Godfather Doctrine, John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell have applied the differing views of mob boss Don Corleone's three sons to differing schools of American foreign policy.
Reason July 2009 Shawn Macomber	Stripping Away Free Expression A Pennsylvania town tries -- and fails -- to ban a form of exercise.
Reason July 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	A Scary Thing Indeed First published in 2003, A Scary Thing had been living on the FEMA site ever since, traumatizing kids with color-it-yourself pictures of towering infernos and children weeping outside hospitals for their dead kin.
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Net Ushering in Era of War Without Borders Expert sees a new face of cyber warfare forcing 'some of the hardest national security decisions you'll have to make.'
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Alex Goldman	Jarvis Describes Government in the Google Age If Google represents the future of organizations, then government is surely stuck in the past, but can it change?
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Andy Patrizio	DoJ to Oracle/Sun: Not so Fast, Pardners The federal government has denied Oracle's request for a speedy approval of its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, requesting more time to give the purchase scrutiny before passing it on to the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission for approval.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Cybersecurity: National Priority or 'Flavor of the Week'? A White House-led plan to strengthen the nation's computer networks is so overarching and ambitious that agencies worry that they don't have enough knowledge or talent to take on the challenge.
CIO June 29, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Obama's Cybersecurity Coordinator Has Broad Agenda President Obama's review of cybernet security needs provides a long list of issues to address.
ifeminists June 29, 2009 Wendy McElroy	The Gay and Hetero Marriage Quagmire What constitutes a marriage should be determined by contract between the consenting adults involved, not by government.
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Christopher Saunders	Amazon Drops NC, RI Affiliates as Tax Looms Amazon plays hardball with North Carolina and Rhode Island legislatures.
CIO June 26, 2009 Kim S. Nash	Obama's Cybersecurity Push: What It Means for CIOs President Obama aims to fix U.S. cybersecurity, but can the feds hit a moving target? Not without private sector support and practical solutions.
Registered Rep. June 25, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Regulation, Not Growth, Is Top Concern for RIAs Clients are demanding more of their time, revenues are taking a hit and on top of it all, there's potential for major regulatory changes in their industry.
Bank Systems & Technology June 21, 2009 Katherine Burger	Herbert Allison Confirmed as Department of Treasury's Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Former Fannie Mae and TIAA-CREF CEO's responsibilities include overseeing TARP.
AskMen.com	Madoff Gets 150 Years Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison Monday for fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to those who might imitate his fraud and to victims who need relief.
AskMen.com	Is The Generation Gap Widening? From cell phones and texting to religion and manners, younger and older Americans see the world differently, creating the largest generation gap since the tumultuous years of the 1960s.
Food Engineering June 28, 2009	Tech Flash Vol. 5 No. 12 -- Food Engineering's E-Newsletter IT innovations... PACK EXPO 2010... Appeals court upholds ban on genetically engineered alfalfa... Cookie dough recall... Soft drinks and health...
ifeminists June 27, 2009 Trudy Schuett	Farrah Fawcett's Burning Bed Legacy The book by Faith McNulty and the movie opened the door for feminist political ideology masquerading as scientific theory, fully applicable to all cases of intimate partner abuse.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Anthony Malakian	A Whole New World Bank of North Dakota makes about 70 percent of the student loans in its home state, but if the Obama Administration has its way, the $3.5 billion-asset bank would be out of the origination business by this time next year.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Andrew Dubinsky	Electronic Lending Could Help Avert Another Crisis If regulators had the tools in place to effectively view complex debt instruments and the links between the financial institutions that securitize, hold, and insure them this crisis may not have happened.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Joseph Rosta	Risk Management: Miles to Go Unless regulators ensure that risk management becomes an integral part of banks' corporate culture, from the trading floor to the boardroom, the goal of preventing systemic failure may prove much harder to achieve.
InternetNews June 26, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Feds Mulling Incentives for Secure Software Tax breaks for better software? That's one idea on the table as officials work to flesh out government role in public-private partnerships.
InternetNews June 26, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	ICANN Appoints New CEO Former director of U.S. National Cybersecurity Center takes the lead of the Internet's top governing body.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009	Roundtable: Will Cap-and-Trade Hurt America? The U.S. House of Representatives is voting on the American Clean Energy and Security Act, more commonly referred to as the "Cap-and-Trade" bill. Energy experts debate the merits of Waxman-Markey.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Rich Smith	Obama Challenges Congress to Dogfight And Congress challenges the president over the controversial F-22 warplane.
The Motley Fool June 26, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Uh-Oh, Here We Go Again? Another effort to reinflate the housing bubble.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Reform and Jobs Pay-or-play isn't sitting well with the business community.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Maria Bartiromo	Summers on Obama's New Financial Regulations Larry Summers is adamant that the reforms will result in more economic stability and, ultimately, a more enduring prosperity.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Theo Francis & Mark Scott	European Regulators Target U.S. Firms New regulatory efforts by European policymakers may put American banks, insurers, and money managers at a competitive disadvantage.
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Paul Barrett	Going Great Guns with Fear Marketing Whatever your views on gun control, there are lessons to be learned from the firearm industry.
InternetNews June 25, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Obama Rounds Out FCC With Baker Nomination Republican would fill the final spot on the five-person agency; Senate confirms Genachowski as chairman.
InternetNews June 25, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Critics Seeking to Debunk Spectrum Scarcity Advocates of spectrum reform look to end the fixed-band licensing regime to meet the demands of the explosion in mobile computing.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2009 Jack & Suzy Welch	Not So Fast, Mr. President In his rush to fix everything, Obama is skipping vital steps in the change process.
AskMen.com	1 Million Swine Flu Cases? Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected.
ifeminists June 25, 2009 Wendy McElroy	The Conservative Cookie Rebellion Through Affirmative Action Bake Sales, conservative groups on campuses across America are satirically and peacefully spotlighting the injustice of AA programs that penalize or benefit students based solely on gender and race. The cookie rebels are being slammed by such a backlash that the
Popular Mechanics June 25, 2009 Larry Webster	The Case Against Cash for Clunkers: Analysis Under this program, car buyers can receive up to $4500 by scrapping a gas-guzzler and purchasing a more fuel-efficient new car or truck.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2009 Brian Orelli	Loss of a Settlement Option Earlier this month the Federal Trade Commission came out with a report arguing for limited patent protection for drugs made by biotech companies. Now it's ratcheting up its complaints about pharmaceutical and generic-drug companies as well.
Registered Rep. June 24, 2009 John Churchill	SEC Says Time To Tighten Rules On Money Market Funds After one of the oldest and largest money market funds suffered such severe redemptions that the net asset value of its shares fell below $1, the SEC is proposing structural and regulatory changes for money markets
Bank Systems & Technology June 18, 2009 Katherine Burger	Can Trust Be Rebuilt in the Financial Services Industry? The Obama Administration's new proposals for financial services regulation aim to rebuild trust within the industry, and between banks and the public. That may be easier said than done.
AskMen.com	DC Mayor: Metro Needs Fixing District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty says this week's deadly crash of a Metro subway train dramatizes the need for officials who operate the system to upgrade and modernize the fleet.
AskMen.com	Sanford's Embarassing Error Mark Sanford, South Carolina's governor, has taken a swan dive from the moral high ground.
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland	Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.
Fast Company July 2009 Kate Rockwood	Drill: The U.S. Oil Industry Turns 150 Before 1859, America had no oil business. August 28 marks the 150th anniversary of its first commercial well. Today, the U.S. is the world's third-biggest oil producer and largest consumer. Join us for a tour of this gas-guzzling nation.
Fast Company July 2009 David Lidsky	Numerology: Hawaii Five-O The last territory to be granted U.S. statehood joined the union on August 21, 1959, but America's paradise certainly isn't last in our hearts. Pop in Elvis's "Blue Hawaii," pour yourself a fruity rum drink, and check out the state of the 50th state.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Cost Goals for Littoral Combat Ship Overly Optimistic Navy Secretary Ray Mabus raised doubts in recent weeks that the service can meet a $460 million cost cap for the Littoral Combat Ship.
InternetNews June 24, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	CTIA Seeking Mobile Health Care Mandate With an eye toward stimulus funds, wireless trade association convenes medical experts and policy makers to talk up remote-monitoring technologies.
InternetNews June 24, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Davis Not Interested in Obama's Cybersecurity Job Former lawmaker says he's not interested in new White House cybersecurity position, a job that some see as too low on the bureaucratic totem pole to attract someone with real clout.
Popular Mechanics June 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	V-22 Osprey Debut Report Card: Analysis The tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey got a chance at redemption last year when a dozen deployed to Iraq with the Marines.
Popular Mechanics June 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman	10 Lessons Learned From Past Rail Accidents It's calamitous enough when one train rear-ends another, as happened yesterday in Washington. But it's often deadlier when two trains meet head-on.
Registered Rep. June 22, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Madoff Had Help Running His Fraud, Says SEC The SEC today indicted four individuals for helping Bernie Madoff in his colossal Ponzi scheme. One of the individuals was a registered rep and a second was an investment advisor.
Bank Systems & Technology June 17, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Levitt Applauds Regulatory Reforms, but Says Accounting Standards Ignored Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt says the Obama plan for regulatory overhaul achieves good balance, but still must address other problems.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	New White House Cyberczar Position May Spark Turf Wars When it comes to the Obama administration's initiative to get a handle on cybersecurity, be prepared for some turf wars, a panel of experts warned June 23 at the National Press Club.
Chemistry World June 23, 2009 Rebecca Trager	EPA halts its chemical review effort The US Environmental Protection Agency is reevaluating its existing chemicals assessment framework and has suspended its Chemical Assessment and Management Program.
Wired June 22, 2009 Damon Tabor	Search and Rescue: Squad Leader Musters Robots to US Disaster Zones Robin Murphy heads the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue, where she commands an arsenal of unmanned craft that specialize in emergency response.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Cybersecurity and Social Networking Can Coexist, Says Defense Dept. Study Fears of cyber-attacks should not keep the Defense Department from embracing social networking technologies, says a recent report from the National Defense University.
HBS Working Knowledge June 22, 2009 Roger Thompson	"Too Big To Fail": Reining In Large Financial Firms The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" - the risk that a failure of one institution could wreak havoc across the entire financial system.
InternetNews June 22, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Critics Call On FCC to Curb AT&T, Verizon Pricing The No Choke Points coalition claims that incumbent telcos gouge smaller providers and businesses for network access.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Alyce Lomax	The Other Great Depression We need to realize that our economy needs to correct from the artificiality of a massive bubble, that government intervention is unsustainable and maybe even harmful, and that what we need most of all is to get our entrepreneurial spirit back.
The Motley Fool June 22, 2009 Christopher Barker	The Surreal Life of the U.S. Dollar Hollywood screenwriters couldn't have scripted it better.
Registered Rep. June 18, 2009 John Churchill	Target Date Funds Under Congressional Microscope; Sortino's Thoughts The Department of Labor and the SEC are holding a joint hearing today in Washington to explore "issues" related to target date/lifecycle funds.
AskMen.com	Where The Hell Is Mark Sanford? Gov. Mark Sanford's wife said Monday the two-term Republican chief executive has been gone for several days and she doesn't know where. Sanford's staff won't say where he is.
AskMen.com	Infinite Jail Terms For Sex Crimes? The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms.
AskMen.com	Obama To Sign Anti-Smoking Bill President Barack Obama is set to sign into law an anti-smoking bill that will give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco.
TIME Europe June 29, 2009 Sean Gregory	Fast Food: Would You Like 1,000 Calories with That? The Senate wants to make chains post this info front and center, but will that make us eat less?
Insurance & Technology June 15, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Five Insurance Trade Groups Sign Statement Supporting Optional Federal Charter The statement will be presented at the June 16 hearing on Risk and Insurance House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
Fast Company July 2009 Anya Kamenetz	Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.
Fast Company July 2009 Ellen McGirt	Gavin Newsom Wants to Be Governor of California. Would You Hire Him? The controversial mayor of San Francisco wants to upgrade to the governor's mansion. Would you hire this pretty face to run the world's eighth-largest economy?
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Next Combat Vehicle: Cheaper and Simpler The Army lost a bruising battle to save its Future Combat Systems. Now the service is hoping that it can pick up the pieces and move on, although it's not yet clear how.
InternetNews June 19, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Civility Creeping Into Net Neutrality Debate? Converging Web and telecom sectors may be coming to understand each other, but deep fissures on Net neutrality issue remain.
InternetNews June 19, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Feds Cast a Wide Net for Broadband Projects Official overseeing the broadband grant program stresses inter-agency coordination, speed in the application process.
InternetNews June 19, 2009 Christopher Saunders	Obama Picks IBM Patent Guru to Head USPTO In a move that could place a tech industry insider at the helm of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, President Obama plans to nominate David Kappos, vice president of intellectual property law at IBM, as its next director.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Tim Beyers	Meet the Man Who Might Save WiMAX President Obama's choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, sees broadband Internet adoption as a national priority.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Why Does North Carolina Hate Amazon? Another state is turning to directly taxing Internet retailers to offset a budget shortfall.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	Where Did All the Bailout Money Go? Now that several banks have repaid taxpayers about $70 billion of the $700 billion bank bailout know as TARP, a common question is: "Great, now where's the other $630 billion?" The answer isn't as clear-cut as many may assume.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Brian Orelli	Comparative Medicine Could Sink Your Stocks The government's plan will have a very unpredictable effect on companies.
Bank Systems & Technology June 18, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	The Financial Industry Reacts to Obama Regulatory Proposal Although most agree with the general principles outlined in the President's financial reform plan, they find several sticking points -- and IT won't be immune.
Insurance & Technology June 17, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Insurance Industry Reacts to President's Financial Service Regulation Reform Proposals President Obama's proposals include enhanced oversight of the insurance sector and the establishment of an Office of National Insurance.
AskMen.com	NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.
AskMen.com	Schwarzenegger's Ballsy Gift It was intended as a gag gift but the recipient, a Sacramento Democrat, was not amused and returned the football-sized gift with a terse note.
AskMen.com	Fake Study, Real Paycheck Medical device maker Medtronic paid about $850,000 over nearly 10 years to a former Army surgeon accused of forging signatures and falsifying data for a study touting the benefits of one of the company's implants.
Wired Nicholas Thompson	And Data for All: Why Obama's Geeky New CIO Wants to Put All Gov't Info Online The Obama administration's most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Peter Coy	Why the Fed Isn't Igniting Inflation Yes, the Fed is expanding the money supply. But any inflationary effect will be offset by consumers' new frugality.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: Why Consumer Spending Won't Drive a Recovery Households are paying down debt and rebuilding their nest eggs, so they're not spending. Still, that's unlikely to thwart a modest economic upturn.
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Francis & Sasseen	Financial Regulations: What Obama Wants The Administration's proposals for regulating the financial markets are wide-ranging. The question now: Are they tough enough?
BusinessWeek June 18, 2009 Spencer E. Ante	Twitter Diplomacy The U.S. State Dept. is enlisting Silicon Valley companies such as Google and Twitter to help bring high tech to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Home Theater June 18, 2009	DTV Weak? Try Double Rescan Has your television reception survived the DTV transition not quite fully intact? Here are a few tips from the Federal Communications Commission, including one we haven't heard before.
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Alex Goldman	City Wants Job Seekers' Facebook Passwords A report says Bozeman, Montana, is asking job applicants to hand over their login credentials to social sites.
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	House Leaders Moving Closer to Privacy Bill Joint subcommittee hearing continues probe of behavioral targeting, with legislation expected by year's end.
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Senate Panel Digs In on Wireless Exclusivity Deals Probe into wireless practices continues as lawmakers mull legislation, increased regulatory oversight of the industry.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2009 Morgan Housel	$134 Billion in a Suitcase, and Other Extremely Large Numbers Two Japanese men were detained in Italy after trying to smuggle $134 billion of U.S. Treasury bonds into Switzerland.
U.S. NHTSA June 18, 2009	U.S. DOT Proposes New Tire Fuel Efficiency Ratings for American Consumers The U.S. Department of Transportation today proposed a new, consumer-friendly replacement tire label which would include information about the tire's impact on fuel economy and CO2 emission reductions.
BusinessWeek June 17, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Why the AMA Will Likely Support Health-Care Reform Obama's plan might lower specialists' pay, but it would help primary-care doctors, save the industry billions, and please voters.
Registered Rep. June 17, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	The Fiduciary Battle Continues, Now Under Federal Microscope Among other measures, the Obama administration proposed today that the Securities and Exchange Commission require that broker-dealers offering investment advice be held to the fiduciary standard rather than the suitability standard.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2009 John F. Kouten	On the Right Pathways With staggering year-over-year growth, biosimilars are "the future of medicine." Marketers must position their companies for the inevitable changes. President Barack Obama has pledged support for legislation governing biosimilars.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2009 Sander A. Flaum	Domestic Intervention The United States needs a new focus on educating its future labor force; and it needs parents to take the main role.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2009 Patrick Clinton	High School Justice FDA slaps down Cheerios and forces pharma companies that use Google to make technical changes no consumer will ever notice. Big whoop.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2009 Jill Wechsler	A Bigger, Bolder Agency FDA is seeking more resources to support compliance and oversight.
AskMen.com	A Missile Strike On Hawaii? North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program.
Scientific American July 2009 Eugenie Samuel Reich	Stimulus Funds for Science Raise Concern about Misconduct About $31 billion in stimulus funds will go to science. Can watchdogs keep track of those funds?
Chemistry World June 17, 2009 Rebecca Trager	US resumes contentious FutureGen clean coal initiative The US flagship clean coal project is being resurrected under the Obama administration, after being abandoned by the previous White House early last year.
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Jill Jusko	Federal Dollars Will Fuel Investment into Renewables A significant chunk of federal dollars will flow to developers of renewable energy technologies and other energy-related technologies as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Steve Minter	First Up -- General Motors: Another Cracked Brick in the Wall An annual supplier relations survey shows more evidence of why GM has proven to be a $50 billion problem for the U.S. government.
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Thomas Duesterberg	The Competitive Edge -- Cap-and-Trade Would Be a Major Mistake U.S. manufacturers face significant cost disadvantages if current proposals are enacted.
InternetNews June 17, 2009 Michelle Megna	Wireless Carriers Defend Text Message Pricing AT&T and Verizon defend text-message price hike and exclusive contracts on Capitol Hill.
InternetNews June 17, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Lawmaker Taking on ISPs' Metered Usage Plans New bill would bring utility-style regulation to ISPs.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer	Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess.
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Is the Fed the Next Citigroup? The Fed is undercapitalized in the way that Citigroup is undercapitalized, at least before it's magical transference of preferred to common shares.
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Genachowski Glides Through Confirmation Hearing Senators have more ire for FCC's past misdeeds than the man poised to take over at the agency.
AskMen.com	The Creepiest Benefits Scam Ever A 49-year-old man has been charged with dressing up as his dead mother as part of a creepy scam to collect government benefits.
AskMen.com	What To Do About Iran? President Barack Obama is in a box over Iran, caught between affinity for emboldened reformists and caution about further alienating a hard-line Islamic regime he wants to dissuade from seeking nuclear weapons.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Four-Star General in Charge of Homeland Defense Not Big On UAVs Unmanned aircraft may be proliferating in combat zones, but in U.S. homeland security missions, don't expect the same phenomenon.
Home Theater June 16, 2009 Mark Fleischmann	FCC Gets 900,000 DTV Panic Calls The Federal Communications Commission has fielded more than 900,000 calls since analog television broadcasting was shut down on Friday June 12.
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Senators Probing Wireless Device Deals Kerry, colleagues call on FCC for swift feedback on exclusivity agreements amid increasing talk of legislation to curb the practice.
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Consumer Electronics Chief Ready to Battle Gary Shapiro rolls out ambitious innovation lobbying sweep
InternetNews June 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Federal CIO: U.S. Government Needs New Software Innovative software, including cloud computing technology, will bring all kinds of data to the Internet.
The Motley Fool June 16, 2009 Morgan Housel	Don't Kid Yourself: Banks Can Still Be Insolvent The folks at Treasury say everything will be fine. Should we believe them?
InternetNews June 15, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Questions for Obama's FCC Pick Chairman designate Julius Genachowski, along with incumbent Commissioner Robert McDowell, heads to his confirmation hearing tomorrow as Internet activists hope for a new era at the FCC.
Skeptical Inquirer Kendrick Frazier	Science, Reason, and the Obama Administration A president's intellectual outlook is only one of many things that shape changes in culture and society, but the early signs are encouraging.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Navy Awaits Arrival of Powerful New Radar-Equipped Aircraft The Navy's new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has a powerful new radar.
National Defense July 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Industry Ethics: Going Beyond the Call of Duty A seemingly endless stream of bad news about U.S. weapon programs should cause all of us to revisit our approach to ethics in the defense industry.
Chemistry World June 12, 2009 Rebecca Trager	Chemicals sector key contributor to US toxic pollution More than 5.5 billion kilograms of toxic pollutants were released and transferred by nearly 35,000 industrial facilities throughout North America in 2005
Home Theater June 12, 2009	Analog TV Dies: Good Riddance The nation's analog broadcast television standard, known as NTSC, died today after a long illness. It was 68 years old and should have died years ago.
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Airstrike 101: 5 Questions to Ask About The Civilian Bombing Not all airstrikes are equal when it comes to civilian casualties.
Bank Systems & Technology June 10, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Bonuses Still Point of Contention for Obama The President continues to push for restrictions on bonus compensation for financial executives.
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2009 Greg MacSweeney	Still Stressed Over Bank Stress Tests Although investors greeted the results of the government's banking stress tests with cheers, were the tests strict enough to help prevent another financial meltdown?
Home Theater June 11, 2009	DTV Transition Deadline Is Tomorrow Tomorrow, June 12, 2009 is the final deadline for the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting. Here's the DTV transition thought of the day: Does it matter?
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	How Far Will Gates Go in 2011? Defense budget gloom-and-doom vibes are spreading inside the beltway. Secretary Robert Gates says to expect modest increases of no more than 2 percent in the coming years.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Memo to Commanders: Less Micromanaging U.S. technological prowess has made it possible to centralize command-and-control functions in the military, to the point that a general sitting at the Pentagon can micromanage a war half a world away.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Shipbuilding Plans Shrouded in Secrecy Lawmakers were in an uproar this month over the Navy's decision to not turn in a congressionally mandated report that outlines the service's 30-year ship acquisition forecast.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Decline of Military Labs Undermines U.S. Security In recent years, the private sector has been increasingly tasked to carry out research and engineering work that previously had been assigned to Defense Department laboratories.
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Morgan Lord	NASA Builds World's Largest Space Parachute for Martian Landing When the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover lands on Mars in 2012, it will face a unique obstacle
Popular Mechanics June 9, 2009 Mike Allen	How 35.5 MPG Will Change Our Vehicles and the Way We Drive: Analysis The EPA's role in fuel economy
CIO May 12, 2009 Stephanie Overby	The Truth About Obama's "Tax on Outsourcing" Misconceptions about President Barack Obama's plan to close overseas business tax loopholes abound. CIO.com sets the record straight about the five most common misperceptions.
Chemistry World June 9, 2009 Rebecca Trager	US speeds visa process for researchers The US government has implemented changes to its visa system that are expected to make it dramatically easier for foreign researchers and graduate students to enter the country to work or attend scientific conferences.
Home Theater June 9, 2009	FCC Maps DTV Losers On Friday the Federal Communications Commission updated its list of 319 stations in which two percent or more of households would lose TV service in the switch from analog to digital signals.
T.H.E. Journal June 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Big-Picture Politics The proposed cut in EETT funding shouldn't obscure the more positive signs of the new administration's support for ed tech.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Citizens Invited to Participate in DHS Major Review The Department of Homeland Security wants to harness the "wisdom of crowds" into a major strategic review that is due to Congress in December.
Home Theater June 8, 2009	Obama: Get Ready for the DTV Transition President Obama has added his voice to the chorus of warnings about the impending DTV transition.
Food Processing June 2009 Dave Fusaro	Do They Want Healthier Food or Not? Cheerios may have gone too far, but a `new' FDA should focus on safety and health.
Outside June 2009 Tim Sohn	Gold Fish Fishermen in Alaska's Bristol Bay are fighting against the presence of Pebble Mine, a non-renewable resource that would pollute the waters of the bay.
Outside June 2009 Stephen Jermanok	Downtown Jungles A handful of forward-thinking cities turn eyesores into urban oases.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Break its Addiction to Supplementals? This Gotterdammerung -- also known as the end of supplemental budgets -- is being met with a mix of anxiety and resignation.
Chemistry World June 4, 2009 Rebecca Trager	US regulator rethink on BPA The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revisiting its stance that bisphenol A is safe at current exposure levels.
Home Theater June 4, 2009	White House Is Eclectic on Copyright Where does the Obama administration stand on the consumer's right to record? Depends on the situation. On copyright issues, the White House is not predictable, but eclectic.
Registered Rep. June 3, 2009 David Geracioti	ARS Games -- SEC Blames Firms, Settles with BAC, RBC and DEUTSCHE When the auction rate securities market froze up in February 2008, angry clients blamed their financial advisors.
Registered Rep. June 3, 2009 Halah Touryalai	SEC Gives Investors a Voice. Will It Be Heard? Chances are the Securities and Exchange Commission announcement about its newly created Investor Advisory Committee will get plenty of eye rolls.
On Wall Street June 1, 2009 David Lindorff	The Most Dangerous Woman in America Ghilarducci, the 51-year-old author of When I'm 64: The Plot Against Pensions and The Plan to Save Them, is a vocal opponent of the 401(k) concept, which she charges has been a "failure at providing a secure retirement" to Americans.
Financial Advisor June 2009 Eric L. Reiner	It's Getting Better Bigger tax breaks make greening a home or office more feasible.
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams	Breathable Suit Protects Users From Hazardous Materials The Gore Chempak protective suit permits law enforcement and other first responders to stay active on site for up to eight hours.
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams	SATCOM Hardware Will Be Downsized on Navy Ships The Navy wants to consolidate seven SATCOM programs into two: the Naval Multiband Terminal and a commercial broadband service, known as CBSP.
National Defense July 2009 Grace V. Jean	U.S., Coalition Troops to Rehearse For Combat in Simulated Afghan War A high-tech combat simulation now in the planning stages will seek to achieve what eight years of real combat in Afghanistan apparently has not. And that is to teach U.S. forces how to fight with allies.
Food Engineering June 1, 2009	Regulatory Watch While food and beverage concerns have dominated the government's battle on childhood obesity, the food industry is attempting to shift the focus to fitness.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John McHale	Boeing Airborne Laser team begins weapon system flight tests But the Obama Administration has proposed cancelling the ABL program. Congress will consider this proposal this summer and fall.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Committee Seeks to Vet Homeland Security Technology for 'Public Acceptance' As the U.S. military has discovered in the past, millions of dollars can be spent on developing a weapons system. But the money can go down the drain if there is a public outcry against it.
National Defense July 2009 Manoyan & Frodl	How Trade, Deficits, Strategic Petroleum Reserves Affect U.S. National Security There is much confusion and debate over just how much crude oil there is in the United States, both onshore and offshore, as well as over how best to manage it.
National Defense July 2009 Jeff Smith	Defense Department's Energy Strategy Debated The Defense Department is making progress reducing energy demand, but it has a long way to go to meet the federal government's aggressive targets, military and government officials said.
National Defense July 2009 Jeff Smith	In the U.S. Military, Energy-Saving Projects Proliferate The U.S. military has been working on large and small green projects in recent years.
Food Engineering June 2, 2009	FDA Should Take Over Produce Safety Standards FDA leadership may be needed to determine sound science and make certain there is a level playing field in the industry.
Food Engineering June 2, 2009	Competency Model for Automation Professionals Department of Labor and Automation Federation set standards for engineers and technicians.
Popular Mechanics June 2, 2009 Adam Hadhazy	The Truth about Chinese Drywall Thousands of homeowners in Florida and elsewhere are blaming such problems on low-quality, imported drywall.
Popular Mechanics June 2009 Roxana Tiron	Microwave Missiles: High-Energy Weapons in the Air Force U.S. Air Force's newest directed-energy weapon program, the Counter-Electronics High-Powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project, would create a weapon that fires powerful bursts of HPM, frying the electronics of multiple targets without harming people.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failures Reported in Key Component of U.S.-Mexico Electronic Fence The revelation that a highly touted component of the system does not work as promised came only days after the Obama administration announced that it is moving forward to expand the program to other areas along the southern border.
National Defense July 2009 Matthew Rusling	Specialized Chem-Bio Unit to Fully Stand Up in 2011 The Defense Department is beefing up the nations response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive attacks.
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson	Wanted: One Affordable Field-Ready DNA Testing Device The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service needs a portable device that can rapidly test a subject's DNA in order to verify claimed family relationships
CFO June 1, 2009 Russ Banham	Fray on Pay The battle over executive compensation and what it means for you.
CFO June 1, 2009 Scott Leibs	Comp & Circumstance Government involvement in executive compensation could spur unintended consequences, but wiser pay policies still may emerge.
CFO June 1, 2009 Alix Stuart	Prescription for Progress? The enormous changes being contemplated for health care, and the staggering costs associated with them, which could draw heavily upon corporate coffers, ensure that even if the road to reform is fast, it will not be smooth.
CFO June 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan	Green Counters Sophisticated tools for carbon-emissions accounting are coming to market. But are U.S. companies ready for them?
Popular Mechanics June 1, 2009 Erik Sofge	Footage in the Sky: The Truth Behind NASA's "UFO" Videos The scenario goes like this: Its 1996; you're an astronaut and you're looking at a UFO. This is quite possibly the biggest, most game-changing scientific discovery in the history of mankind.
Information Today June 2009 K. Matthew Dames	Intellectual Property: Why the Frame of `Piracy' Matters What does piracy really mean? The term's definition and history are important along with the reasons why its continued misrepresentation matters to the country's copyright policy.
Bank Systems & Technology May 28, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	U.S. Banking Sector One Step Closer to Super Regulator Reports indicate that plans may be in the works to consolidate the current array of financial services regulatory agencies into one body.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009 Lena Anthony	New COBRA Rules in Effect The federal economic stimulus package President Obama signed into law earlier this year made changes to the health benefits provisions of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985, commonly known as COBRA.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009 Lena Anthony	Lending Help The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Obama earlier this year allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Small Business Administration's lending programs
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009 Alyson McNutt English	The Search Is On The good news is there are plenty of government grants and contracts available to small businesses -- especially now that the federal government is pumping billions of dollars into revitalizing the economy. The bad news is government money is neither free nor easy to win.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009	Senators Support Estate Tax Relief This spring, a majority of U.S. senators expressed their support for providing additional permanent estate tax relief for small businesses.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009	NFIB Opposes Paid Leave Program An effort has begun in Congress to expand the Family Medical Leave Act into a program that would force small employers to provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave to all workers.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009	Federal Unemployment Funds A portion of the recently passed federal stimulus bill that provides money to states to pay unemployment benefits has triggered legislative battles in many states over whether to accept the funds.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009	Payroll Tax Holiday Gains Momentum The National Federation of Independent Business has continually told lawmakers that passing a tax holiday would be the most effective thing Congress could do to help small business owners. And now Congress is paying attention.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009 Lena Anthony	Curing the Healthcare Cost Crisis Key stakeholders in the healthcare debate -- including small business owners, healthcare providers, individuals and even health insurance companies -- all agree that something must be done to fix America's healthcare system. The tax rules put the self-employed at a disadvantage.
MyBusiness Jun/Jul 2009 Bill Dunkelberg	Leading Indicators The economy remains in the dumps, as does small business owner sentiment about it.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	U.S. Plans to Destroy Enemy Computer Networks in Cyber-Attacks Questioned But secrecy may have impeded widespread debate about the nature and implications of cyber-attack.
Reason June 2009 Matt Welch	Obama Loses His "Cool" With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man.
Reason June 2009 Radley Balko	Sex Shop Scandal When the Old Town Alexandria, VA, Board of Architectural Review shot down Michael Zarlenga's plans to expand his hunting and fishing shop, he took his revenge and rented the spot to a sex shop.
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey	Green Money President Barack Obama asks Congress to "send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America." His words will send energy lobbying, already highly active, into overdrive.
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	The Truck Stops Here The NAFTA superhighway feared by conspiracy theorists has yet to materialize, but nativists can take comfort in one fact: If the superhighway does come, there won't be any Mexicans driving on it.
Reason June 2009 Matt Welch	Hiking in Hoboken A property tax increase of 47 percent in Hoboken, NJ, leaves residents angry and many not able to afford their homes.
Reason June 2009 Brian Doherty	I.T. Go Home Many highly trained immigrants choose to return to countries such as India and China rather than staying in the far wealthier United States.
Reason June 2009 Lynn Scarlett	Scarlett Green The author, now consulting for the Environmental Defense Fund, spoke with reason about her three biggest frustrations working for eight years making environmental policy under the Bush administration.
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Gutting D.C. School Vouchers After They Work As Predicted The Democratic Party, as part of its "omnibus" federal spending package, voted in March to end the Washington D.C.school voucher program after the 2009-10 school year.
Reason June 2009 Mike Riggs	Warriors on Drugs The anti-drug ad campaign Above the Influence has set its sights on a new demographic: video game players.
Reason June 2009 Michael C. Moynihan	What Caused the Crisis? In his new book, Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, John B. Taylor argues that the government bears the most responsibility for creating and sustaining the current crisis.
Reason June 2009 Jacob Sullum	Birth of a Cocaine Factoid A prohibition-friendly estimate of drug-related deaths turns out to be bogus.
Reason June 2009 Greg Beato	Barter Country As the economy suffers, a nation turns toward cashless barter transactions.
Reason June 2009 Veronique de Rugy	The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite.
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey	It's Alive! Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter.
Reason June 2009 Lynne Kiesling	Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies.
Reason June 2009 Brink Lindsey	Nostalgianomics The rise in income inequality does raise issues of legitimate public concern. But the caricature of postwar history put forward by purveyors of nostalgianomics won't lead us anywhere.
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Dangerous Toys, Strange Bedfellows Hipster moms and conservative congressmen join forces against the regulatory state.
Reason June 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	The Eyeborg Meet Rob Spence. A childhood accident left him with only one working eye. He's a filmmaker and an unemployed engineer. And he conceals a miniature camera behind his prosthetic eyeball.
IndustryWeek May 29, 2009 Jill Jusko	Information Please Government agencies, concerned about potential health and environmental risks, are stepping up efforts to gather data on nanomaterials.
IndustryWeek May 29, 2009 Jill Jusko	Battles Rage on Many Fronts to Curtail Counterfeiting and Piracy Annual review by USTR shows both progress and backsliding. Concern over Canada grows.
Popular Mechanics May 28, 2009	Apollo 11 Radio: Sound Bites From the Voice of America Sessions When Rhett Turner's voice broadcast went out from a Houston studio in July 1969, describing in clear, deliberate language the events of Apollo 11, it was heard over shortwave radio by people in dozens of countries around the world
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Susan Hassler	Why Mars? Why Now? Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts took humanity's first baby step into the cosmos. It's time to take the next one
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Guterl & Heger	Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet	Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Joshua J. Romero	Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009	The Amazing Orbiting Garriotts In 1973, Owen Garriott made electrical engineering history as the first EE astronaut to travel into space, spending 60 days aboard Skylab, the U.S. -- run space station.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Jamieson & Norberg	The Mars Challenge Human exploration of the red planet will inspire new generations of engineers
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Steven M. Cherry	Space Is Big Business Of the $257 billion spent on space last year, two-thirds came from the private sector
Investment Advisor June 2009 Melanie Waddell	Danger & Opportunity: Obama and SEC Enforcement Under Microscope As the Obama Administration was ringing in its first 100 days in office in early May, the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division was awaiting a much-needed $40 million cash infusion that Congress promised was on its way.
Home Theater May 28, 2009	Court Nixes Cable Apartment Exclusives Do you live in an apartment building served by cable? If so, you're probably resigned to your local cable operator having a monopoly. But the U.S. Court of Appeals says that's not the way it has to be.
Oracle Magazine Jul/Aug 2009 Mary Ann Davidson	Secure Testimony Advising the United States Congress about cybersecurity.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Expand Work Force Based on Quality, Not Quantity, Warns Former Pentagon official The Defense Department should be careful in how it goes about expanding its acquisition work force
U.S. Banker June 2009 Glen Fest	Spinning Turnstile at Goldman Puts Spotlight on TARP Impact One goodbye that really caught attention was that of Byron Trott, vice chairman and managing director of the bank's Chicago office.
U.S. Banker June 2009 Cheyenne Hopkins	Back on the Docket Several Supreme Court justices during oral arguments on a key preemption case appeared to support the Office of Comptroller of the Currency's ability to enforce laws exclusively at national banks.
U.S. Banker June 2009 Anthony Malakian	A Stimulating Development Bankers say that with many of their customers eager to take advantage of tax breaks and other incentives, the flood of money flowing toward green initiatives could create a range of new lending opportunities
U.S. Banker June 2009 Davies & Marquez-Garrett	Financial Misconduct Is Not Just a Civil Matter The FBI is shifting more than $75 million in resources from counterterrorism work to help sort through what has been characterized as "the wreckage of the financial meltdown," and financial industry professionals are bracing themselves for the newest wave of recourse: criminal prosecution.
U.S. Banker June 2009 Joseph Rosta	Protectionism Is not Self-Defense As anti-trade measures pile up, "this will worsen the contraction of world trade and undermine confidence in an early and sustained recovery in global economic activity," the WTO says.
Home Theater May 27, 2009	Analog-Shutoff Test Hits a Nerve A single-day record of 55,000 calls flooded help lines staffed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday, May 21, after TV stations across the nation broadcast a series of warnings about the shutoff of analog television signals scheduled for June 12.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Predicting the Outcome of War: Can Science Help? Digital simulations are staples of military war games. They can be used to recreate just about every aspect of combat. But simulating the complex scenarios of "irregular" warfare is one of the toughest challenges that the Defense Department now faces.
Home Theater May 22, 2009	FCC Girds for Analog Armageddon The Federal Communications Commission is going into high gear to ensure that the final stage of the DTV transition goes smoothly.
Wired May 22, 2009 Charles Graeber	The Ultimate Lock Picker Exposes Weak Military Installations, Corporate Systems Marc Weber Tobias makes a living breaking into the most secure facilities -- at the request of the owners.
Wired May 22, 2009 David Wolman	Time to Cash Out: Why Paper Money Hurts the Economy In an era when books, movies, music, and newsprint are transmuting from atoms to bits, money remains irritatingly analog.
Wired May 22, 2009 Sarah Douglas	NASA's Icy-Hot Rocket Engine Rocket engines don't get much cooler than this.
Wired May 22, 2009 Scott Brown	Scott Brown on How Transformers Are Keeping America Safe The Obama administration's new austerity measures directly or indirectly threaten Michael Bay's big-budget Transformers sequel, Revenge of the Fallen.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	UAV Programs Illustrate DoD's Broken Procurement System Lack of inter-service coordination in unmanned aircraft programs is wasting millions of dollars and slowing down much-needed modernization, said departing Pentagon acquisition chief John Young.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	A Prescription for the Air Force's Ailing Acquisition System Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz sign off on an "acquisition improvement plan" that articulates current flaws in the service's weapons procurement process and proposes ways to fix them.
Chemistry World May 21, 2009 Rebecca Trager	FDA gets new chief The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) new commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, will be the second woman to ever lead FDA
Popular Mechanics May 21, 2009 Andrew Moseman	U.S. Natural Gas Boom: The Race to Tap Shale's Potential Chesapeake Energy had only four rigs tapping into the Haynesville shale natural gas deposit in northwest Louisiana and east Texas. Now, the company has 24.
Popular Mechanics May 21, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Will Obama Kill Navigation Backup System as GPS Threatens to Fail? Obama's budget attempts to axe LORAN-C, a navigation backup program, even as experts at the Government Accountability Office sound warnings about satellite reliability. What will happen if GPS fails?
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	Failures Reported in Key Component of U.S.-Mexico Border Fence The Project 28 virtual border fence in Arizona cannot currently deliver live streaming video to Border Patrol agents
Home Theater May 20, 2009	FCC to Do 'Soft Test' of DTV Transition Analog TV broadcasts will be interrupted three times on May 21, 2009 with a message heralding the end of analog broadcasting, coming on June 12.
IndustryWeek May 20, 2009	First Up -- Sweating the Big Stuff -- and It's All Big Stuff It's time to put manufacturing on the list of national issues we must address now.
HHMI Bulletin May 2009 Cori Vanchieri	Stand Up and Lead HHMI investigator Sean J. Morrison was a leader in the charge to loosen restrictions on stem cell research in Michigan -- going up against a well-funded opposition in the November 2008 election -- and won. It was an eye-opening experience.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Jack Milligan	Scrambling for Solutions Get ready for the mother of all lobbying battles in Washington later this year when the Obama administration starts pushing its reform agenda for financial regulation in the U.S. Congress.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 L. William Seidman	Will the Fed's Medicine Work? Fed activity is unprecedented -- a new activism never seen before in the history of the United States.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Paul M. Thomson	Is the Law of Unintended Consequences at Work at the FDIC? The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) temporarily increased the limit on bank checking and savings deposits to $250,000 per qualified account through 2009.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen	Fear of the Unknown Receiving government funding right now is a little akin to the devil you don't know.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Deborah Scally	Outlook for M&A: 2009 Interestingly, for some banks, M&A will be a viable -- even attractive -- strategic option.
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