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AFP eWire October 18, 2011	Take Action Today to Oppose Any Tax Reforms That Would Harm Charitable Giving! The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing regarding the charitable deduction and discussed alternatives to the current itemized deduction.
Food Processing October 2011 Dave Fusaro	Editor's Plate: Where's the FDA's New Funding? The Food Safety Modernization Act has become one of the victims of feuding in Washington. Is good enough good enough?
National Defense November 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	'Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money; Now We Have to Think' Accepting the reality that the defense budget is going to come down, what must we think about?
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Truck Buyers Face 'Fix or Purchase' Dilemma The Army's aging fleet of 160,000 Humvees needs to be modernized, officials say. The plan is twofold: Refurbish a portion of the Humvee fleet and replace the rest with brand-new trucks.
National Defense November 2011 Stew Magnuson	Coast Guard Commandant Girds Service For Possible Budget Cuts The service has already lived through an era of declining budgets. In the 1990s, the Coast Guard lost some 6,000 personnel as its top line funding took hits year after year.
National Defense November 2011 Eric Beidel	Coast Guard Cyberdefense Office: Small but Mighty Like the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, the Coast Guard suffers thousands of attacks on its networks each month.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2011	Megan McArdle on the Solyndra Scandal Why solar panel maker Solyndra failed, and why the government shouldn't be providing loan guarantees for such companies.
National Defense November 2011 Stew Magnuson	Border Patrol to Unveil New Strategy, Doctrine The Border Patrol will release a revamped strategy by the end of the year that will reflect new realities on the ground as well as the influx of technologies it has received during the past decade.
National Defense November 2011 Dan Parsons	Solar Storms Could Plunge Nation into Darkness Researchers are racing to understand the effects its energy might have on the U.S power grids in hopes that potential cataclysm can be avoided.
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines Seek to Recapture Their Lost Sea-Warfare Skills "Dawn Blitz 2011," was a simulation of what it could be like to deploy a Marine Expeditionary Brigade force of up to 17,000, entirely from ships.
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