Noteworthy new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following.
“Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status,” updated November 20, 2008.
“Iran: Ethnic and Religious Minorities,” updated November 25, 2008.
“Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses,” updated November 24, 2008.
“Presidential Libraries: The Federal System and Related Legislation,” updated November 26, 2008.
“Nonmarital Childbearing: Trends, Reasons, and Public Policy Interventions,” November 20, 2008.
“Border Searches of Laptop Computers and Other Electronic Storage Devices,” updated November 17, 2008.
“The first rule of government transformation is: there are a lot of rules. And there should be-ish. But we don’t need to wait for permission to rewrite them. Let’s go fix and build some things and show how it’s done.”
To better understand what might drive the way we live, learn, and work in 2050, we’re asking the community to share their expertise and thoughts about how key factors like research and development infrastructure and automation will shape the trajectory of the ecosystem.
Recognizing the power of the national transportation infrastructure expert community and its distributed expertise, ARPA-I took a different route that would instead bring the full collective brainpower to bear around appropriately ambitious ideas.
NIH needs to seriously invest in both the infrastructure and funding to undertake rigorous nutrition clinical trials, so that we can rapidly improve food and make progress on obesity.