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"Entre el 28 de noviembre y el 4 de diciembre de 2006, el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos del Ecuador (INEC) ejecutó el primer Censo de Población y Viviendas de Derecho del país en la provincia de Galápagos, cuyos resultados se presentarán hoy viernes 29 de junio en Santa Cruz, Galápagos. Este Censo se realizó ejecutó gracias a un Convenio celebrado entre el INEC, el Instituto Nacional Galápagos (INGALA), la Gobernación de Galápagos y el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) y fue financiado con fondos de la Cooperación Italiana en el marco del Proyecto Proingala que apunta a fortalecer la capacidad de planificación sistémica del INGALA y de las principales instituciones de la provincia."
Rob Pegoraro - Fast Forward: Sidekick Users See Their Data Vanish Into a Cloud - washingtonpost.com
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It's one thing for a distracted, inexperienced person at home to forget to back up data until it's too late. It's another for a company with the resources of a Microsoft to make the same mistake.
Editorial - Immigrants, Health Care and Lies - NYTimes.com
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A House oversight committee reviewed six state Medicaid programs in 2007 and found that verification rules had cost the federal government an additional $8.3 million. They caught exactly eight illegal immigrants
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In the case of an epidemic, like swine flu, should illegal immigrants go untreated so they can infect legal residents and American citizens?
Brain Carpet microelectrodes could help translate thoughts into actions more effectively
The electrodes allow detection of the electric signals in the brain which control arm and hand movements.
Health Panel Draws Up Flu Vaccine Priority List - washingtonpost.com
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When the vaccine starts arriving in September, first in line will be pregnant women; the caretakers of infants; children and young adults; older people with chronic illness; and health-care workers
Cycling’s Biggest Prize Is Eluding Cadel Evans Yet Again - NYTimes.com
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Astana might be the best team, on paper, that the Tour had ever had
Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft - NYTimes.com
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Ask has long been praised for its innovations, and it too spent more than $100 million to market its search engine in 2006 and 2007,
Editorial - More Immigration Non-Solutions - NYTimes.com
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On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it was expanding its 287(g) program, which enlists local law-enforcement agencies to hunt illegal immigrants, with 11 new partnerships across the country.
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the administration also announced last week that it would continue the Bush-era practice of requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to use E-Verify, a deeply flawed electronic system for checking people’s eligibility to work. Since its databases are full of mistakes, this all but guarantees that citizens and legal residents will lose their jobs.
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School-Age Children to Get First Vaccinations Against Pandemic Flu - washingtonpost.com
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The federal government should get about 100 million doses of vaccine by mid-October
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But enough vaccine for wide use by the 120 million people especially vulnerable to the newly emerged strain of H1N1 influenza virus will not be available until later in the fall.
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Obama Revives Bush Idea of Using E-Verify to Catch Illegal Contract Workers - washingtonpost.com
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President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday.
Instead, Obama will mandate that federal contractors confirm the identities of 4 million workers against federal databases beginning in September, pushing ahead under pressure from Senate Republicans with another long-stalled Bush administration initiative. -
The Bush administration proposed mandatory use of E-Verify by 170,000 federal contractors in 2007, projecting that participation in the program would double in 10 years to cover 20 percent of annual U.S. hiring
NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes | Wired Science | Wired.com
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NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes
Black Reverence for Jackson Is Now Unreserved - NYTimes.com
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Mr. Jackson was to music what Michael Jordan was to sports and Barack Obama to politics — a towering figure with crossover appeal, even if in life some of Mr. Jackson’s black fans wondered if he was as proud of his race as his race was of him.
Experts Suspect System Failure, Operator Error in Metrorail Crash - washingtonpost.com
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"It doesn't look like she hit the brakes," said a train safety expert, who asked not to be identified because the crash is under investigation. "That's why you have an operator in the cab. She should have been able to take action. That's what they're there for."
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The only function required of a train operator during automatic operation is to close the doors after a station stop.
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World Bank Sees Slow Growth for Economy - washingtonpost.com
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The global economy is expected to start growing again during the second half of the year but at a pace "much more subdued than might normally be the case,"
Obama, Inviting Ideas Online, Finds a Few on the Fringe - NYTimes.com
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It got an earful — on legalizing marijuana, revealing U.F.O. secrets and verifying Mr. Obama’s birth certificate to prove he was really born in the United States and thus eligible to be president.
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Mr. Shirky said that government must also prevent small groups of loudmouths from hijacking the public debate.
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CNN.com - UNICEF ranks countries on academics - Nov. 26, 2002
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"A child starting school in Canada, Finland, or (South) Korea ... has both a higher probability of reaching a given level of educational achievement and a lower probability of falling well below the average," UNICEF said.
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"In all countries under review, a strong predictor of a child's success or failure at school is the economic and occupational status of the child's parents,"
News Analysis - W.H.O. Makes It Official - Swine Flu Is a Pandemic - NYTimes.com
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Even in developed countries, the virus can cause severe and sometimes fatal illness in pregnant women, babies and people with underlying problems like asthma, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and autoimmune diseases. Dr. Frieden said people in those risk groups should seek treatment if they have a fever of at least 100.4, and a cough or a sore throat.
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A third to half of the severe and fatal cases have occurred in young and middle-aged people who were previously healthy. In contrast, seasonal flu tends to kill the frail elderly.
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China Requires Censorship Software on New PCs - NYTimes.com
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China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet.
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“This is a very bad thing,” said Charles Mok, chairman of the Hong Kong chapter of the Internet Society, an international advisory group on Internet standards. “It’s like downloading spyware onto your computer, but the government is the spy.”
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