http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2008457
Covers the performance of American Indian and Alaska Native 4th and 8th graders on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading and math tests. Provides results for 11 states with fairly large populations of AI/AN students. From the National Center for Education Statistics.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/treating_tobacco_use08.pdf
Updates guidelines released in 2000 to cover effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence that have become available since 2000. From the Office of the Surgeon General.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/AgProductivity/#2008-5-13
Data set which provides estimates of productivity growth in U.S. agriculture from 1948 to 2004 and of relative levels of productivity across the states for 1960-2004. From the Economic Research Service.
http://www.opm.gov/feddata/RetirementPaperFinal_v4.pdf
Subtitled: Predicting Future Retirements and Examining Factors Relevant to Retiring from the Federal Service. Analyzes federal retirement statistics in order to gain a better understanding of the future makeup of the federal workforce. From the Office of Personnel Management.
http://www.doi.gov/issues/polar_bears/polar_bear.pdf
Provides basic information on the appearance, range, feeding habits, reproduction, and special adaptations of the polar bear. From the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Final rule declaring the polar bear is likely to become an endangered species in the foreseeable future because of the shrinking of its polar ice habitat. From the Department of the Interior.
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002181
Reports that inequalities in all cause death rates between Americans with less than high school education and college graduates increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001. Also reports on death rates by race and gender related to socioeconomic differences. From the Public Library of Science One.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/secrecy/RS20748.pdf
Reviews current practices and procedures by the Senate and House for handling classified information and proposals for change. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists.
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-123/Draft-SP800-123.pdf
Offers recommendations to federal agencies for securing a wide variety of servers. Covers securing, installing and configuring the underlying operating system and server software, and maintaining a secure configuration through application of appropriate patches and upgrades. From the National Institute of Standards and Technology
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32459.pdf
Reviews commercial, investment, and trading relations between the U.S. and France, which is the 9th largest trading partner of the U.S. Also focuses on sources of tension between the two countries, especially agricultural trade, government intervention in business activities, and the Iraq War. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/41869.pdf
Subtitled: Increasing Wind Energy's Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply. Examines the technical feasibility of harnessing wind power to provide up to 20% of total U.S. electricity needs by 2030. Presents an in-depth analysis of the potential to boost wind electric generation from its current 16.8 gigawatts to 304 GW by 2030. From the Energy Department.
