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Quick subject index to links on this page:

Armed Forces & National Security (including wars, conflicts & their aftermaths)		Europe (including links from old Kosovo page)
Children		Gambling
Computers, Technology & the Internet		Government (including links from old Impeachment page)
Disasters (natural & man-made)		Health/Medical (includes Cloning Policy, Tobacco Litigation & Legislation)
Economy		Human Rights
Energy		Space

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Residential Energy Consumption. Report from Dept. of Energy traces changes in residential energy and appliance (including computers) use over the last 20 years.

White House Energy Report. The report is available as a single PDF file or individual PDF files for chapters.

1999 Earthquake in Turkey.  Information from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Global Fire Monitoring. Images (some require QuickTime plugin) and information from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Interstate 40 Bridge Collapse at Webbers Falls. Links to Oklahoma and federal government information (including detour maps) concerning the May tragedy and the condition of bridges in general.

TWA Flight 800 Hearing. This site, at the National Transportation Safety Board, includes final report, transcripts, etc.

USA.gov's Asia Earthquake and Tsunamis page has a wealth of links to information on all aspects of the 2004 tragedy.

The District Court's Memorandum and Order in the Microsoft case is available in either HTML or PDF on GPO Access. A comprehensive Microsoft case site is also offered by the Justice Department.

U.S. v. Microsoft. Links to legal materials (briefs, opinions, etc.) related to the current complaints.
Findings of Fact in Microsoft Case. From U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. The Library also has a paper copy in the Documents stacks at JU 4.2:M 58.

Market Power and Structural Change in the Software Industry. Hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee featuring testimony by Bill Gates and other computer industry luminaries. (This hearing is not currently available online, as far as I can find.) 

Privacy on the Web. This is the Federal Trade Commission's Privacy page, with links to reports, including their recent report to Congress on online privacy, testimony and consumer information.

Final Report of the [San Antonio] Mayor's Task Force on Technology Implementation. Draft for comment and review at salsa.net.

• Report of the President's Council on Bioethics regarding Human Cloning: "Human Cloning and Human Dignity: an Ethical Inquiry." Report in HTML format.
• NIH informational page with links to resources about stem cell research.
• Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning. This is a report made available for free online reading and for purchase in print from the National Academies Press.

Government Views of SARS. Informational links compiled by the City College of New York Library.

Surgeon General's Report on Mental Illness. The report is in HTML format.

Supreme Court decision on regulation of tobacco by FDA. The majority and dissenting opinions are available in HTML and PDF, courtesy of Cornell's Legal Information Institute.

Tobacco Litigation and Legislation

• CDC's site of searchable tobacco documents. This site allows searching of a large database of tobacco company documents made public in the various cases that have been brought. Some documents collection in Great Britain are also included, and there is an extensive link collection to other sites with data, papers and information. The Univ. of California at San Francisco and the American Legacy Foundation have another online collection of tobacco industry documents from the 1950's to the present.
• House Commerce Committee's release of tobacco company documents--more than 800 documents dating back to 1954; you need Adobe Acrobat 3.0 to view the documents.

UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hoof and Mouth information page. Includes factsheets and general information about the disease as well as news items.

Students' Report of School Crime: 1989 and 1995. Reports of a survey conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics. PDF and ASCII versions. The Library also has a paper copy of this report. The call number is: J 29.2:SCH 6/2, in the documents stacks.

ECommerce Advisory Commission. Click on "Press Room" for a link to their findings, made public in March, 2000.

OSHA's new ergonomics standards. This link is to a page with links to background information on ergonomics--transcripts from public formus, press releases, etc.

The social impact of the Asian financial crisis. Report prepared by analysts at the International Labor Organization; the entire report may no longer be available online (3/30/2000)

North American Free Trade Agreement information page from the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Beijing +5 official site. This site gives background information on the condition of women in the world, plus press releases, statements and other documents produced by the special session of the UN General Assembly concerning Gender Equity, which was held June 5-9, 2000.

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Links to reports from 1993-99; follow the link to the current site for more recent reports. These annual reports meet a statutory requirement that countries receiving U.S. aid be surveyed as to their human rights records. Information is also available for countries which do not receive aid. Reports are prepared by the State Dept. and are also available in paper form in the Academic Library documents stacks; call number is Y 4.F 76/1-15: .

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Report on Homelessness. This page offers links to several different publications on poverty and homelessness from the agency.

Lunar Prospector Information. Background and current information about the moon exploratory mission.

Mars Exploration Rovers homepage, from the Jet Propulsion Lab. Images, features, news reports on the Mars landings.

Mars Missions. This page is NASA's Mars Exploration information Program page, with information on past and future missions. 

Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Home Page (NEAT). Latest asteroid news from the Jet Propulsion Lab, with links to much technical information.

Space Shuttle Columbia. Information page with photos and links from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

Armed Forces Equal Opportunity Survey. Report is in PDF format.

Cox report (formally known as the Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China) from GPO Access.

The City College of New York's documents librarian has compiled a marvelous listing of government websites (from several countries) dealing with the D-Day invasion, whose 60th anniversary is celebrated this year. CCNY also has link collections pertaining to a couple of other important anniversaries this year: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Holocaust victims' gold and other Holocaust issues (these pages include links to reports which the Library also has in paper form at S 1.2:G 56/PRELIM. and S 1.2:G 46/SUPP. in the documents stacks)

• State Department's Holocaust Issues page (this is an archive page from the Clinton administration)
• Holocaust Museum's page on victims' assets
• US and Allied Wartime and Postwar Relations and Negotiations withArgentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey on Looted Gold and German External Assets and US Concerns about the Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury.

Mitchell report on Palestinian-Israeli violence (officially, the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact Finding Committee). This page provides links to an HTML copy of the report.

Project Megiddo. FBI report on potential for domestic terrorism in anticipation of the new millennium.This report was "out of print" on the internet for some time and is currently available through this page from the Center for Studies on New Religions. 

Report on Gulf War Illnesses from the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Human Resources Subcommittee.
Report of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses on pyridostigmine bromide (PB) and its possible relationship to Gulf War Syndrome. General site of the Assistant's Office has related information.

Report of the Panel to Review Sexual Misconduct Allegations at the Air Force Academy. The report is a large PDF file.

Secretary of the Army's Senior Review Panel Report on Sexual Harassment--(this report is not currently available online, as best I can find.)

Newly declassified documents from the National Security Archive accompanying the Taylor Commission report, which investigated the Bay of Pigs incident.

Report of the Panel on U.N. Peace Operations. This site includes not only the full report, a summary and recommendations, but also a collection of background and factual information about the UN's peace missions.

No Gun Ri Report. This site has links to separate PDF files for summary, individual chapters of the report, and appendices.

USS Cole Commission report. This link is to an executive summary, supplemented by the unclassified findings and recommendations.

Shoot-Down in Peru. This National Security Archive site features full-text declassified documents from 1994 concerning U.S.-Peruvian tracking of drug activity.

U.S. National Security Strategy. The latest version of our national security policy statement (PDF format).

The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction has made their report available. From this page you can access individual chapters in either PDF or HTML (web page) formats. There is also a link to download the entire report as a PDF file. The Library has also received this report in paper format: PREX 1.19:IN 8/W 37.

A Decade of Deception and Defiance: Saddam Hussein's Defiance of the United Nations. PDF version of report to accompany President Bush's Sept. 12 speech at the UN.

Commission on Civil Rights 2000 Vote and Election Reform page.

Cornell Law Library's Impeachment information

Department of Justice Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Available in HTML with PDF and JPEG attachments, this is the report released in early June, 2000.

Dole-Mitchell report on the Independent Counsel Statute. From the Brookings Institution.

Electoral College information. This is not a government site, but it was recommended by Grace York, Documents Librarian at the Univ. of Michigan and a bright star in the electronic information heavens. It gives information on how states choose electors and whether they are "bound" or not.

House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry (links to statements, resolutions and other documentation)
Working Draft of Impeachment Articles
Democratic Censure Resolution (CNN)

Official Sites for report of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr:

GPO Access: http://icreport.access.gpo.gov/index.html
Library of Congress (THOMAS): http://thomas.loc.gov/icreport
We also have paper copies of the report, its appendices and supplements. See this page for location information.

 Impeachment information page from Grace York at U. Michigan

Independent Counsel Reports: on Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, various others. This page from GPO Access has links to HTML and PDF versions of the reports.

National Public Radio's Impeachment page

Report of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform. You can download report or section by section, or in total.

The recently released "McCarthy hearings" (Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, from 1953) are available from the Government Printing Office in either text or PDF format. The library also has them in print format:  Y 4. G 74/9:S.PRT.107-84.

University of North Texas impeachment information page.

Supreme Court Nominations: Samuel Alito. Resources from the Law Library Reading room of the Library of Congress.

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Kosovo Crisis site.

 First & Second Reports of Independent Experts. Report on fraud, mismanagement and nepotism in the European Union.

Grace York's Kosovo links (workaholic Univ. of Michigan documents librarian)

NATO has a background page on their operations in the former Yugoslavia, Operation Essential Harvest.

OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Kosovo pages:

• Kosovo/Kosova, As Seen, As Told (report, in PDF)
• OSCE Mission in Kosovo

Radio B92 is an independent radio station in Belgrade; this link is to their English-language page.

State Dept. Kosovo publications:

• Building Peace in Kosovo.  This paper is dated July 23, 2000 but there are links on the page to more current information.
• Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo.

Information from the perspectives of each side in the conflict:

Kosovo Crisis Site (pro-Kosovar independence) | SerbiaInfo (Yugoslavia Ministry of Information)

Links checked May, 2005

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