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2:00 – 4:30 p.m. National Press Club Washington, D.C. MIKE ARMACOST (President, Brookings Institution): It’s a great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the Brookings Institution and, of course, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. In recent years a new dialogue has started on what congregations’ proper roles are in lifting up […]
Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 891 adults, 18 years of age or older, during the period October 10-14, 2001. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to […]
Results for the America’s Place In The World Callback survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a sample of 1,281 adults who were interviewed for the original America’s Place In The World Survey (August 21 – September 5, 2001 N=2,002). These re-interviews were conducted during the […]
Introduction and Summary The public’s worries over terrorism have declined since mid-October, despite government warnings of new attacks and recurring anthrax incidents. But this decrease in concern is not being felt uniformly across the country, and is not associated with greater confidence in the government’s ability to deal with the terrorist threat. If anything, Americans […]
SELECTED KEY FINDINGS ON FIVE CITIES PORTLAND, OREGON Real changes in communities are evident in Portland as a result of a wide range of community Internet projects, some of them long-established. Portland”s Neighborhood Pride Team, initially founded to revitalize a community in southeast Portland, has grown from one computer in 1995 to a skills center […]
By Carl Gottlieb and Todd Belt Today in local television news few stations are gaining audience. Winning is now a matter of beating the odds. This year, in our sample of 43 stations, 77 percent are suffering ratings declines. In our 1998 study, by comparison, that number was 66 percent, but it has been in […]
Providers and Insurers The privacy rule covers health plans and health care providers that transmit health information electronically in a standard format.[36.numoffset=”36″ Health care clearinghouses are covered entities under the regulation. However, as a practical matter, whether a clearinghouse is a covered entity would be irrelevant to most consumers, since they do not generally have […]
About the survey This report is based on the findings of a daily tracking survey on Americans’ use of the Internet. The results in this report are based on data from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates between September 12 and September 19, 2001, among a sample of 2,039 adults, 18 and older. Some […]
Introduction Nashville’s business community has been active, if not wildly successful, in attempting to catch the wave of dot.com riches in the New Economy. Nashville’s economy is service oriented, with health care and country music being the region’s dominant and highest profile business sectors.[10.numoffset=”10″ The major technology employer in the area is Dell Computers, which […]
Sites with Multiple Activities As covered entities establish an online presence, their online collection and transmission of personal health information will be regulated by the privacy rule. Even if a company is a covered entity, however, it is not obvious whether all information collected by the entity at its Web site is covered. Most health-related […]