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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:57:35 -0400
From: Nora Gelperin <norag@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject: Online Sexuality Course - LAUNCHED!
** Congratulations to Dr. James Price
** 2007 AAHE Scholar
** Be at his presentation in Fort Worth!
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#321
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:42:02 -0700
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: EPA Closure of Libraries Faulted For Curbing Access to Key Data
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A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account for the impact on government staffers and the public, who rely on the libraries for hard-to-find environmental data, congressional investigators reported yesterday.....
..."The agency's modernization effort is characterized by poor planning, failure to communicate with its employees, the public or Congress and failure to protect unique government assets," Gordon said in a statement. "As a result, EPA library services are impaired, employees will have a harder time doing their jobs and the public has lost access to government information."
Full Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/13/AR2008031303649.html
Actual GAO Report: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08304.pdf
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Mark Fulop, MA, MPH
Portland, OR
"Imagine what it might be like in 20 years if our efforts are successful and people could once again govern themselves. A line would be carefully drawn between corporations and the state, reducing financial influence over elections and lawmaking, making possible a whole new generation of progressive elected officials committed to social transformation. Imagine that the institutions of the global economy are overhauled so that labor and environmental issues are integrated into trade policies, and impoverished nations are freed from unpayable international debts. Trade and investment rules promote fair exchange, and national governments have the policy space to support social and environmental goals at home." http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1825
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