http://www.governor.virginia.gov/news/viewRelease.cfm?id=403
Text of the Governor’s written testimony in response to Defense Department proposals to eliminate the Norfolk-based Joint Forces Command as a cost-cutting measure. From the Office of the Governor
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-10-049/EN/KS-SF-10-049-EN.PDF
Reports that more students at the primary school level are learning a foreign language in 2008 than in 2000 but no progress was made in the number of students learning a foreign language in upper secondary education. English is the most studied of all foreign languages in European schools. From Eurostat
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/nsf10329.pdf
Reports that universities increased spending on research and development in science and engineering by 5.8% from 2008 to 2009. Tables cover sources of funds, discipline fields of research expenditures, and leading 20 universities in R&D expenditures. From the National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10328/nsf10328.pdf
Computing resources are more advanced at doctoral institutions than at postsecondary schools which do not have doctoral programs. From the National Science Foundation
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1350/pdf/circ1350.pdf
Presents an assessment of the occurrence and distribution of nutrients in the water samples from some 500 streams and over 5,000 wells from 1992 through 2001. Also includes the relation of nutrient conditions to aquatic life in streams, changes in nutrient conditions from 1988 to 2004, and implications for future changes. From the United States Geological Survey
Examines the relationship between the International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan and civil society organizations which are to work together to bring about safe and peaceful development. From the United States Institute of Peace
Contributions from a June 2010 conference on the topic of how to improve programs of foreign assistance by strengthening the security environment in which foreign development can take place. From the United States Institute of Peace
http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb96.pdf
Presents data on hospitalizations for nine medical conditions among patients with dual Medicare-Medicaid coverage, a group characterized by poverty and poor health. From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality