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BusinessWeek March 1, 2004 Rosenbush et al.	Broadband: What's The Holdup? The U.S. lags far behind global leaders such as Korea and Japan, where broadband is far faster and cheaper, thanks to more focused national policy, less cumbersome regulation, and more densely populated regions. What's holding up the US with broadband?
InternetNews February 20, 2004 Michael Singer	Security Forces to Show Unified Front Homeland Security officials will join experts from Microsoft and other IT firms in San Francisco next week to address the onslaught of malicious attacks.
Geotimes February 2004	Call for ocean policy overhaul America needs a new ocean policy. That's the message coming out of several sessions at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences which focused on the health of America's oceans.
National Defense March 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Balancing Defense Needs Against Fiscal Realities The 2005 defense budget request that the administration sent to Capitol Hill last month is an impressive attempt to balance the demands of a nation at war against the sobering fiscal picture now confronting us.
National Defense March 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Washington Pulse Congressional staffers predict the fiscal year 2005 funding for the Defense Department will move quickly through the appropriations process, despite widening concerns about the administration's reluctance to disclose projected cost estimates on the war in Iraq.
National Defense March 2004 Roxana Tiron	Real-World Missions Shape Army Training The U.S. Army has reorganized its training centers to fill gaps in areas such as stability and support operations, according to senior officials. The revamped training programs draw from lessons learned from counterinsurgency operations in Iraq.
National Defense March 2004 Harold Kennedy	Army Crime Fighters Shift Focus to Wars The U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command--which usually concentrates on bringing that service's own lawbreakers to justice--now is employing its detective skills against enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to the unit's deputy commander, Col. Paul R. Capstick.
National Defense March 2004 Harold Kennedy	Air Force Forging Alliances in Pacific Region In the aftermath of back-to-back wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Pacific Air Forces--the air component of U.S. military units covering the Pacific and Indian Oceans--is restoring aircraft and crews, and reexamining its basic deployment strategies.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	War Lessons Should Not Be Politicized, Says CENTCOM Chief The organization in charge of gathering and reporting those lessons, the U.S. Joint Forces Command, deployed teams and embedded them with units in the field to get a first-hand look at the operations.
National Defense March 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Beat The Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services will share $275 million to expand the BioWatch program, improve a nationwide bio threat reporting system and upgrade food and animal inspections.
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