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Introduction: This publication is a digital database compilation of the significant metalliferous and selected nonmetalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of Northeast Asia. This region includes Eastern Siberia, Russian Far East, Mongolia, Northeast China, South Korea, and Japan. The report provides a detailed database of lode deposits and placer districts, a bibliography of cited references, descriptions of mineral deposit models, and a mineral deposit location ...

Excerpt: There has been talk in official Washington circles about direct U.S. military action against the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua, Recently the New York Times reported that some Administration policymakers doubt that any available policy options, including military aid to the Contras, is likely to bring a political change in the direction of the Sandlnista Government.

Excerpt: Objective: The National Science Foundation makes Advanced Study Institute travel awards to enable U.S. graduate students to participate in international scientific meetings held abroad for the purposes of obtaining and exchanging science information and professional development. Neither travel to Canada nor travel to any U.S. Trust Territory or possession (including Puerto Rico) will be supported under this program.

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Excerpt: For Offical Use Only DSAA- Foreign Military Sales Detailed Deliveries For Fiscal Year 99...

Excerpt: In 1898 the Joint Committee on the Library chose sculptor William United States to succeed to the presidency McCauslen to execute a likeness of John Tyler, following the upon the death of his predecessor. Tyler also served as both U.S. representative and recommendation of two of Tyler’s sons, Lyon Gardiner Tyler and U.S. senator from Virginia. Born in Charles Representative David Gardiner Tyler. In the spring of 1896, they City County, he was voted into the stat...

Introduction: Today's discoveries in science, engineering and technology are intertwined with advances across the mathematical sciences. New mathematical tools disentangle the complex biotic and abiotic processes that drive the climate system; mathematics illuminates the interaction of magnetic fields and fluid flows in the hot plasmas within stars; and mathematical modeling plays a key role in research on micro-, nano-, and optical devices. Innovative optimization metho...

Excerpt: The Laboratory and the nation are increasingly faced with demands for novel electronic materials needed to advance special purpose technologies. Those demands have already led to extraordinary discoveries and applications of novel materials. Recent examples include self-assembling multilayer thin films for use in sensors and nonlinear optical devices and electrically conducting organic polymers that produce blue light by electroluminescence (light in that spectr...

Summary: In the decade between 1994 and 2004, the number of U.S. adults using the Internet increased from 15% to 64%. From electronic mail to accessing information to online purchasing (“electronic commerce”), the Internet touches almost every aspect of modern life. The extent to which use of the Internet continues to grow, however, may be affected by a number of technology policy issues being debated in Congress. First is the availability of high-speed -- or “broadband”...

Excerpt: When the committee at last acted upon this legislation two years second only to Marshall in tenure. He later, it directed the chairman “to contract with some competent artist died at age 87 in 1864. for a bust of the late Chief Justice Taney, the head of same to be modeled after that of the Chief Justice [by William H. Rinehart] at Annapolis. The cost of the same not to exceed $1,000.” Saint-Gaudens, then in New York City, quickly learned of the opportunity from...

Excerpt: Andrei Sakharov’s accomplishments will live for all time. Ms scientific work by itself would have brought him world-renown. HIS through of the links between security and human rights, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize, would also, by itself, have made Mm deservedly famous. But in addition, he practiced what he preached. He set a record for stubborn courage and resistance to tyranny, and so doing attention this ideas and to the human rights problems themselves.

Summary: As imports from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have surged in recent years, posing a threat to some U.S. industries and manufacturing employment, Congress has begun to focus on not only access to the Chinese market and intellectual property rights (IPO) protection, but also the mounting U.S. trade deficit with China as well as allegations that China is selling its products on the international market at below cost (dumping), engaging in “currency manipulat...

Excerpt: Established by the Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice, the Office for Victims of Crime Resource Center (OVCRC) seeks to increase awareness of the needs of crime victims and improve services to these victims. Through OVCRC you can access the most comprehensive criminal justice library in the world- the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Research and Information Center. This collection contains the most up-to date research fin...

Introduction: This report examines reusable launch vehicles (RLVs) currently proposed for government, commercial, and public uses. The term “reusable launch vehicle” may refer to several different levels of reuse. Some vehicle concepts are fully reusable (that is, the vehicle launches and lands without jettisoning any stages). Others have one stage that is reusable in combination with other stages that are expendable. The table and text below describe different levels of...

Excerpt: The Indonesian government faces separatist movements in several parts of the Indonesian archipelago. The emergence and/or growth of these movements have been influenced by the collapse of the Suharto government in 1998 and East Timor’s decision for independence in a United Nations-sponsored referendum of August 31, 1999. The most serious of these movements is in the province of Aceh. Aceh is located on the northern tip of Sumatra, the westernmost of Indonesia’s ...

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Excerpt: DSAA- Foreign Military Sales Detailed Deliveries For Fiscal Year 02...

Excerpt: These statistical tables were created and written by Cathy Maston and Patsy Klaus of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, under the supervision of Michael R. Rand. Priscilla Middleton provided statistical assistance and edited these tables. Jeremy Shimer, of the Bureau of the Census, produced the tables. National Crime Victimization Survey data collection and processing activities are conducted by the U. S. Census Bureau, under the supervision of Marilyn Monahan, a...