Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents
Iraq–Reconstruction
Source: U.S. GAO
Just released: Rebuilding Iraq: Resource, Security, Governance, Essential Services, and Oversight Issues (PDF; 3.74 MB)
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Legal Industry–United States–Lists & Rankings
Source: The American Lawyer
Just Released, The American Lawyer 100
“Top-grossing law firms in 2003.”
Article/Methodology ||| Top 10 ||| Top 100 (registration required, free)
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Internet–Voice over IP
Source: Pew Internet & American Life
New Report, One Quarter of Online Americans Have Heard of VOIP Telephone Service; About One in Eight are Considering Getting it at Home
“While telephone calling using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has attracted considerable attention in the business community and among policymakers, 27% of Internet users in the United States – or 17% of all Americans – have heard of the service.”
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Higher Education–United States–Statistics
Source: NSF
New Info Brief, Graduate Enrollment in Science and Engineering Fields Reaches New Peak; First-Time Enrollment of Foreign Students Declines
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E-Commerce–Privacy
Source: Harvard Business School
The Presentation of Self in the Information Age (PDF; 120 KB)
Working paper “…explores how buyers assert or accept digital identities, and how they evade digital identification and surveillance in their interactions with sellers.”
See also: Web Marketers Get Personal (NYT)
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Homeland Security–United States
Source: U.S. Conference of Mayors
Mayors Measure Interoperable Communication Between Cities, Regions, States and the Federal Government
From the Press Release: “The United States Conference of Mayors Homeland Security Monitoring Center today released its June 2004 Interoperability Report, which measures the reliability and effectiveness of communications systems between local city agencies and federal, regional, state and other local entities in responding to disasters. While the survey findings include encouraging data, it also reveals several local challenges, including funding, to communication.”
View the Report
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Air Travel
Mobissimo
We’re always looking for the “perfect” online search tool for air fares. Here’s a new beta. More on this one later. From the FAQ: “We search across the largest supplier base of any travel search engine on the Web. Our coverage includes travel agents such as Orbitz and Travelocity, consolidators such as Airfare.com and Onetravel.com, airlines such as United, American, and JetBlue, and international suppliers such as Zuji and eBookers.”
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United States–Statistics–Education
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Just Released – Educational Attainment in the United States: 2003 [PDF]
See Also – Attached Tables [PDF]

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