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Government-wide emphasis on community access to data supports substantive push toward more open sharing of research data May 10, 2010 During the May 5th meeting of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation (NSF) officials announced a change in the implementation of the existing policy on sharing research data. In particular, on or around October, 2010, NSF is planning to require that all proposals include a data management plan in the form of a two-page supplementary document. The research community will be informed of the specifics of the anticipated changes and the agency's expectations for the data management plans. The...

Notes From a Student at the Naval War College on Army Gen. Abizaid's Recent SpeechClassification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO CSA Sends:This is as clear as it can be stated - please get these words out to all of the men and women in your organizations. I encourage you to personally carry this message to the American People. As Soldiers, we have the most credible voices in America. We need to lead the way.Thanks for your leadership and for all you have given. Cindy and I send our very best wishes to each of you and your families as we serve together...

Attack has Grassley concerned for his staff By Elana Schor Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said yesterday that he is concerned about the safety of all of his staffers in the wake of last week’s assault on the chief investigator for the Senate Finance Committee. An unidentified man attacked Emilia DiSanto, who has assisted committee Chairman Grassley on a series of controversial oversight inquiries in recent months, on the evening of Nov. 2 at her suburban Virginia home. Investigators have not determined the weapon used in the assault on DiSanto, but Grassley echoed internal suspicion that her assailant used a baseball...

Once upon a time, in what used to be a far away land called Hollywood but is now a state of mind and everywhere, a young actor was handed a script and asked to bring to life a character called Starbuck. I am that actor. The script was called Battlestar Galactica. Fortunately I was young, my imagination fertile and adrenal glands strong, because bringing Starbuck to life was over the dead imaginations of a lot of Network Executives. Every character trait I struggled to give him was met with vigourous resistance. A charming womaniser? The "Suits" (Network Executives) hated it....

The success of CBS's "Everybody Loves Raymond" offers several lessons today's TV executives would do well to recognize: It takes time to grow a hit. When "Raymond" premiered in September 1996, the show aired at 8:30 p.m. Friday and had terrible ratings. Critics raved about it, but viewers didn't find it. CBS paid attention to the critical plaudits and moved "Raymond" to 8:30 p.m. Monday in 1997, where it grew into a hit.

Swollen ex-slugger Jose Canseco lays waste to the game that made him famous in a shocking new book, outing several stars as steroid abusers, the Daily News has learned. The book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big," published by Regan Books and scheduled to hit bookstores Feb. 21, already is causing a firestorm in baseball circles. Players, agents, union officials and Major League Baseball executives have been burning up the phone lines over the past several days trying to find information about the book's contents. "Hoo boy," one top major league executive said....

With Bush's victory and George Soros entering the monastic life, it is time to put the death watch on Air America Radio. When will they go off the air? And this begs the question: What is the end of Air America, really?Is it when WLIB goes back to Caribbean music? Is it when Franken stops broadcasting? Is it when Arbitron refuses to compute numbers that small?Since Air America counts any station that ever carried any one of their shows as an "affiliate," they will probably claim never to die even when Randi Rhodes goes back to her local show.Also, Fraken...

What makes a magazine great? The writing. The ideas. The photography. The design. Sure. But more importantly, a magazine's worth depends on how it catches readers' glances, and then their hearts. Here, Tempo presents its second annual 50 Best Magazines list. Our selections reflect the periodicals that we pay good money to buy, that we pile on our nightstands, that we devour on trains, that we consider to be the best at what they set out to do. There are more than 17,500 magazines published in this country, so choosing the 50 best was daunting. We argued, we concurred, we...

I mean, who does stuff like that? Just ask an open-ended question in the title and ask everyone to comment, even though they don't know what it refers to?It drives me crazy

You may have defeated my Southern Hook Palm technique, but can you defeat the 1000 styles of Rumsfeld? Twin Cobra Fist! White Axe Hand! Grimace Palm! Sleeping Dragon Technique! Evil Eye Style! Mirror Swan Palm! Fist of the West Side! Viper Fang! Drunken Temple Boxing! Lion Claw Technique! Praying Mantis! Coffee Palm! Crouching Tiger! Splashing Hands! Quacking Duck Hand! Pressing Palms Style! Hidden Monkey Hands! Swan's Nest Technique! Fire Palm Fist! Spider Hand Technique!

<p>LOS ANGELES — The Catholic Church has its share of critics, but few are as vocal as a group who labels its members part of the Catholic flock.</p> <p>From contraception to gay rights to the death penalty, Catholics for Free Choice takes a position contrary to the church. The organization denounces the moral teachings of the church, condemns the Vatican and ridicules church leaders on a regular basis.</p>

any in the adoption community are expressing serious concerns about the Bush administration serving up a warmed-over Clinton-era adoption-from-foster-care project, an act that inspired the Washington Post and Clinton's Rasputin, Dick Morris, to say that President Bush was borrowing from the Clinton script.The concerns arose following the ballyhooed July 23 announcement that First Lady Laura Bush and actor Bruce Willis have collaborated on a public-service ad to promote the National Adoption Center's 800 number and website in hopes that more children marooned in the foster-care system might be considered for adoption.Willis's fame is sure to make fingers pause over the...

I've been more than a little obsessed with the Fox TV show 24 and have spent far too much time speculating on the ending. So, I thought I'd start a thread here.First, I'd like to say that I think Nina Myers is the CTU mole. Nobody else makes sense. Alberta Greene is MIA as is Milo Pressman. Ryan Chapelle is already cold and calloused. Both Tony Almieda and George Mason have had "private moments" in which they support Jack Bauer when nobody is looking or listening. Nina has not had such a moment. She has to be the mole.I have...

<p>How do you unite a warring, disparate people rent apart by centuries of conflict? Why, by employing the healing power of television.</p> <p>"A suave Lebanese man and a top game show are doing more to unite Arabs than 50 years of summits, slogans and pan-Arab politics," reports Johannesburg's Business Day.</p>

Last week The Washington Post reported “the belief held by many Israelis that the recent suicide bombings are an example of anti-Jewish violence.” Those who hold this “belief” reject alternative explanations of the violence, such as: The terrorists are targeting Brazilians but are confused about which hemisphere they are in. INTELLECTUAL CONFUSION AND moral miasma, expressed in Orwellian language, now permeate U.S. policy and media coverage concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. . . . Click here for the rest of the article.

henever a Republican gets an enthusiastic round of applause from a mostly black audience it pays to take notice what was said, especially if the Republican is President George W. Bush. The applause in this case was prompted by the president's announcement last month on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's 73rd birthday of a new federal initiative to be called the Martin Luther King Scholars Program. With Coretta Scott King at his side, the president said he intended to create a program to establish twelve-week internships at the U.S. Department of Education for "promising students all across ...

<p>The mother of a young girl who was strangled by a pet snake has agreed to testify against her estranged husband, who is charged with manslaughter in the child's death.</p> <p>Marcy and Robert D. Mountain were the parents of 8-year-old Amber Mountain, who was pronounced dead Aug. 24, two days after she was found in the family's Irwin home with a pet Burmese python wrapped around her head.</p>

&quot;LET'S BE PERSONAL&quot; &#160;&#160;&#160;Broadcast June 5, 1973 &#160;&#160;&#160; CFRB, Toronto, Ontario Topic: &quot;The Americans&quot; The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with ...

I am one of the lucky ones. I don't have friends or family in Manhattan or near the Pentagon. For me, the terrorist attacks of September 11 were just news stories. Just news stories, indeed. As of this writing the death toll is unknown and one grim prospect is that it may be unknowable. The number of 10,000 is enough for me. It may be too high, it may be too low; but by all accounts, it is of the proper order of magnitude. The death toll is so staggering, that it is still an abstraction, like the "megadeaths" associated ...