This report briefly discusses the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act of 1977 (FCPA), which was intended to prevent corporate bribery of foreign officials. Criticisms of the act's operation and scope began almost immediately after its passage and have continued. This report discusses these criticisms.

This report discusses nuclear energy issues currently facing Congress, such as federal incentives for new commercial reactors, radioactive waste management policy, research and development priorities, power plant safety and regulation, nuclear weapons proliferation, and security against terrorist attacks.

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is responsible for preserving access to government documents and other records of historical significance and overseeing records management throughout the federal government. NARA relies on the use of information systems to receive, process, store, and track government records. As such, NARA is tasked with preserving and maintaining access to increasing volumes of electronic records. GAO was asked to determine whether NARA has effectively implemented appropriate information security controls to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information and systems that support its mission. To do this, GAO tested security controls over NARA's key networks and systems; reviewed policies, plans, and reports; and interviewed officials at nine sites."

In recent years, several Members of Congress have expressed interest in amending "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," (DADT) a legislation that requires those of homosexual orientation in the military to keep quiet about their orientation in order to maintain "morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion." At least two bills that would repeal the law and replace it with a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation - H.R. 1283 and S. 3065 - have been introduced in the 111th Congress. This report provides a legal analysis of the various constitutional challenges that have been brought against DADT; for a policy analysis, see CRS Report R40782, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Military Policy and the Law on Same-Sex Behavior, by David F. Burrelli.

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Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

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Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

Photograph of Ariana Guardado, a Teach North Texas program member, working with four students. They are working with activity sheets and on the smart board behind them is a slide that reads "How to Count... -Once you have counted all that you can count on one item you will continue the process of counting other items until there is nothing to count at that station. - You have 6 minutes per station, you will continue to the next station when you hear this...".

Photograph of a pair of Teach North Texas program members sitting at desk-chairs in an auditorium style classroom. They both have papers on their desks and behind them is another pair.

Photograph of the Teach North Texas program Master Teachers. They are standing in a line and are (L-R) Carron Collier, Teresa Walls, Becky Osborne, Kevin Hughes, Cindy Woods, and Kris Sherman.

Photograph of a student that is in the Teach North Texas program making a model eukaryotic cell. Next to him is another student and they are sitting at tables in a classroom lab. The teachers desk is visible behind them.

Photograph of a Teach North Texas program member working with a group of students. She is cutting off a piece of yarn for them to use in building model eukaryotic cells. There are several Play-Doh cans on the table and name-cards. Two of the name-cards read "Zempoalteca" and "McCarty". Behind the teacher are other tables with more students.

Photograph of Johnathan, a Teach North Texas program member, working with two students. They are counting the columns on the buildings that were printed out and put at the desk group.

Photograph of Serena Hobbs, a Teach North Texas program member, working with three students. They are taking notes about the characteristics of flowers and plants in a classroom. One of the students is holding the plants in his hands while the others are looking at one in a pot.

Photograph of Serena Hobbs, a Teach North Texas program member, working with three students. They are counting a specific part of the flowers that are at their desk group. There is a potted Peace Lily, a sunflower, and a few Daisy Chrysanthemums.

We compare force fields (FF's) that have been used in molecular dynamic (MD) simulations of silica in order to assess their applicability for use in simulating IR-laser damage mitigation. Although pairwise FF?s obtained by fitting quantum mechanical calculations such as the BKS and CHIK potentials have been shown to reproduce many of the properties of silica including the stability of silica polymorphs and the densification of the liquid, we show that melting temperatures and fictive temperatures are much too high. Softer empirical force fields give liquid and glass properties at experimental temperatures but may not predict all properties important to laser mitigation experiments.

Energy is an important cost factor in the U.S iron and steel industry. Energy efficiency improvement is an important way to reduce these costs and to increase predictable earnings, especially in times of high energy price volatility. There are a variety of opportunities available at individual plants in the U.S. iron and steel industry to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner. This Energy Guide discusses energy efficiency practices and energy-efficient technologies that can be implemented at the component, process, facility, and organizational levels. A discussion of the structure, production trends, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions of the iron and steel industry is provided along with a description of the major process technologies used within the industry. Next, a wide variety of energy efficiency measures are described. Many measure descriptions include expected savings in energy and energy-related costs, based on case study data from real-world applications in the steel and related industries worldwide. Typical measure payback periods and references to further information in the technical literature are also provided, when available. The information in this Energy Guide is intended to help energy and plant managers in the U.S. iron and steel industry reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions …

This presentation summarizes U.S. Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Demonstration Project 2010 Status Update.

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This presentation reports the findings of NREL's screen test to characterize the durability of poly (methyl methacrylate) lenses used in concentrated photovoltaics.