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• States Shortchange Military Voters Overseas

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  WASHINGTON — Many states are giving military voters overseas too little time to cope with cumbersome mailing systems, according to a study that the Pew Center on the States released Tuesday. Other states use faxed or e-mailed ballots, which depriv...

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• Bush to Make Pacific's Mariana Trench a National Monument

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  President Bush will establish the largest marine reserve ever created Tuesday when he designates three remote Pacific Ocean regions as national monuments, administration officials said. The new Mariana Trench, Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll...

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• Video: Australia Says No to Guantanamo Detainees

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  Australia has told the United States for a second time that it will not resettle detainees freed from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.

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• Help the Poor by Revitalizing the Federal Workforce

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  Nearly two-thirds of Americans report being “hurt” by the recession, but for the millions who live in poverty, the economic downturn has them not just feeling pain, but facing peril. The primary safety net for those in poverty is our federal gover...

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• Uncle Sam Needs You - and Your White Paper!

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  On December 16th the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology asked other government agencies and the private sector for “[w]hite papers … used to identify and select areas of critical national need to be addressed in f...

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