News from September 2007
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: A high-speed quantum cryptography system that allows "Alice" and "Bob" to discuss things in absolute secrecy earned a 2007 R&D 100 Award for a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking public comments for actions to minimize further damage to the Upper Company Creek Road in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area from flood scouring and river erosion.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Today, the House Committee on Agriculture held a hearing to review H.R. 1011, the Virginia Ridge and Valley Act of 2007.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have transferred information between two "artificial atoms" by way of electronic vibrations on a microfabricated aluminum cable, demonstrating a new component for potential ultra-powerful quantum computers of the future. The setup...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today called for a bipartisan approach to reforming the nation’s 135-year old mining law, saying that the time was right for a balanced, “clean-slate" approach to the issue.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Starting in mid-October, teams of business, education, health care and nonprofit experts will visit 14 organizations as the final review stage for the 2007 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest recognition for excellence. The organizations selected for site visits include two...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: For decades, apple and pear growers have "adorned" their orchards with hundreds of plastic dispensers that emit a chemical sex attractant, or pheromone, to disrupt codling moth mating. Now, thanks to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) studies in Wapato, Wash., growers could soon be spraying the pheromone instead.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sens. Chuck Grassley and Orrin Hatch said there is significant support among Republicans for bicameral legislation to reauthorize the children’s health insurance program.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: How do you conveniently measure something that not only is 14 times lighter than air but also invisible? That's just one of the tasks National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Weights and Measures Division staff have taken on to prepare the nation for the hydrogen economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee tonight applauded final and vetoproof Senate passage, 67-29, of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act. CHIP provides health coverage to American children whose parents do not qualify for Medicaid, but can’t afford...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Marine biologist Greg Sanders will be a guest speaker for a special lecture as part of Sea Otter Awareness Week 2007. Sanders will offer a history of sea otters along the California coast including their brush with extinction, current threats, and recovery efforts.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced 56 new awards for innovative industrial research and development projects under the agency's Advanced Technology Program (ATP).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Quantum cryptography is potentially the most secure method of sending encrypted information, but does it have a speed limit? According to a new paper* by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), technological and security issues will...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: On Sept. 13, 2007, in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen 100th Fighter Squadron, the Alabama National Guard deactivated its 187th Fighter Wing and activated the 100th Fighter Squadron. A special ceremony was held at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Insurance Program Reauthorization Act. The $35 billion agreement will bring healthcoverage to approximately ten million children in need - preserving coverage for all 6.6million children currently covered by CHIP and providing coverage to an additional 4million uninsured children. The agreement provides...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding the international meetings on global warming being held today in Washington, DC...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, has found former Alaska state representative and former Alaska Speaker of the House Peter Kott guilty of bribery, extortion and conspiracy for corruptly ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today in federal district court in Savannah, Ga., against the owners, developers, builders and engineers of two Savannah condominium complexes for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Civil Rights Division today announced the first lawsuit ever filed by the Department alleging discrimination against Asian-Americans based upon its fair housing testsan example of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Justice Department announced today the settlement of a lawsuit against Kane County, Ill., alleging violations of the rights of Spanish-speaking voters under the Voting Rights Act. ...
