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	Brookings Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brookings Report is the informal name for a study commissioned from the Brookings Institution by NASA officials in 1960.
		The Brookings report discusses a number of topics related to space travel, but is perhaps most frequently cited in regards to its conclusions regarding extraterrestrial life.
		Curiously, the report also suggests that both scientists and religious fundamentalists might have their paradigms most altered by the verification of extraterrestrial life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brookings_Report (626 words)

	Brookings Institution Sprawl Report Relies on Questionable Data withdrawn by Government
		The report compares trends in the development of urban land and population in the nation's metropolitan areas based upon data from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Resources Inventory (NRI).
		From 1992 to 1997, the total variation of state level NRI estimates (absolute value), at 36,100 acres, was greater than the actual change recorded in either the Agricultural Census (-13,700 acres) or the NRI (-14,100 acres).
		For example, urbanization in the state of West Virginia is reported to have increased by 175,000 acres from 1992 to 1997.
	www.demographia.com /db-brookings.htm (794 words)

	Forum: Brookings Insitute is wrong about reasons for state's slow growth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Brookings Institution study, which was prepared by their Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy, claims that Pennsylvania's dismal comparative performance is largely the result of "sprawl," "weak and uncoordinated planning" and state development spending they say has failed to target sufficient aid to established municipalities.
		Undoubtedly, the Brookings report describes planning efforts that way because those efforts have not produced the outcomes Brookings views as desirable, i.e., they haven't prevented people from moving to the faster-growing communities.
		Brookings focuses their report on sprawl and weak planning and pays only lip service to the role of business taxes in the state's economic woes.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/03348/250710.stm (1316 words)

	Tea3.org: Reauthorization News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		A recent report released by the Brookings Institution emphasizes the benefits of the gas tax as a primary source of transportation funding.
		The report, authored by Dr. Martin Wachs of U.C. Berkeley, and entitled “Improving Efficiency and Equity in Transportation Finance” describes how the gas tax is more equitable than other forms of taxation in that it works as a user fee, impacting consumers in proportion to their use of transportation infrastructure.
		The report criticizes this devolution and argues that user fees in the form of the gas tax, and increasingly highway tolls, should remain the foundation of transportation finance.
	www.istea.org /news.asp?id=52 (247 words)

	REALTOR® Magazine Online -Daily News- Pa.: Reports on Sprawl Spark Hot Debate
		A new report by the Pennsylvania Prosperity Coalition has found that one of the main reasons people move from the state’s urban areas into the suburbs is to pursue better schools for their children.
		Unlike the Brookings report, the Coalition’s is based on what Pennsylvanians say, according to Scott Elliott, director of public relations and public affairs for the Pennsylvania Builders Association.
		Brookings’ response also disputes the idea that the 2003 report advocates government policies that would limit housing growth and drive people to urban areas.
	www.realtor.org /RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2005051803?OpenDocument (726 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- Business: LAS VEGAS CONVENTIONS: Officials unfazed by report
		The results of Brookings Institution's yearlong study, which are being released today, come less than a week after local leaders unveiled a $400 million plan to expand and upgrade the Las Vegas Convention Center.
		The Brookings report said that after peaking at 5.1 million attendees in 1996, actual attendance at the 200 largest U.S. trade shows has decreased steadily since the mid-1990s.
		Brookings' report was somewhat favorable to Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla., which it described as the industry's "emergent national powers." Still, even those cities could be at risk, it said.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2005/Jan-17-Mon-2005/business/25663970.html (1049 words)

	Modeling Income in the Near Term - Projections of Retirement Income Through 2020 for the 1931-60 Birth Cohorts: Final ...
		This report was prepared by the Urban Institute for the Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Division of Policy Evaluation (SSA/ORES/DPE) under Task Order 0440-98-33515, pursuant to Contract No. 600-96-27332 and by the Brookings Institution, under subcontract to the Urban Institute.
		The report discusses the methods used to project future incomes, presents regression results for equations explaining the path of different sources of income, and displays tables that summarize the results of projections.
		The purpose of the MINT project is to estimate the baseline distribution of income of the population of Social Security retirement beneficiaries from the 1931-60 birth cohorts at the age of retirement (either 62 or 67) and in the year 2020.
	www.urban.org /url.cfm?ID=410315&renderforprint=1&CFID=4390945&CFTOKEN=26162193 (2541 words)

	www.GovExec.com - Congress urged to trim agencies from homeland security department (7/15/02)
		The report, written by eight Brookings' fellows, endorses much of the Bush proposal, including the creation of a border and transportation security division and a center to analyze terrorist threats.
		But the report argues for at least temporarily keeping the Federal Emergency Management Agency independent of the new department and delaying the move of offices researching countermeasures to chemical, biological, and nuclear attack until the White House crafts an overall strategy for homeland security research and development.
		Brookings also cautioned that the proposed department combines agencies with stellar management, such as the Coast Guard, with agencies that have chronic management problems, such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0702/071502p1.htm (587 words)

	McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
		The report is richly detailed and uses numbers and statistics to compare regional performance in a variety of relevant measures.
		The report impacts us because we are in the midst of investing heavily in biotechnology and one can use the report to determine whether we are investing in the correct places.
		The Brookings report also indicates that as a region we are woefully behind in commercial activity.
	www.mirm.pitt.edu /news/article.asp?qEmpID=20 (891 words)

	Brookings Report: Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa - Council on Foreign Relations
		Brookings Report: Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
		Council Special Report on Homeland Security warns “the federal government is not doing enough to harness the capabilities, assets, and goodwill of the private sector” to protect the homeland.
		For information on other reports that are not for sale, or for general publications information, please call +1-212-434-9516 or email publications@cfr.org.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9542/brookings_report.html?breadcrumb=default (467 words)

	The Enterprise Mission - Brookings Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Clinton made several copies of the full Study, and duly forwarded sets of the complete document to Hoagland and McDaniel -- who featured it in his final Report, as strongly indicating a long-standing potential NASA policy of "cover-up" on this specific issue.
		Welcome, then, to "the Brookings Report" -- which increasingly seems to have played a crucial role in determining official NASA policy (if not that of other branches of the Federal government) on the controversial subject of "solar system artifacts"...
		In order to offer genuine authenticity of this document, these are scanned GIF images of the actual report.
	www.enterprisemission.com /brooking.html (322 words)

	New Report Sows Confusion About Welfare, Poverty
		Unfortunately, a new policy brief from the Brookings Institution suggests that such reports are not doing all they should to dispel the fog of unwarranted assumptions that surrounds welfare reform.
		The Brookings report, "Welfare Reform and Poverty," is co-authored by Ron Haskins, an influential Republican player in the 1990s welfare debate, and Wendell Primus, a former Clinton appointee who left the administration to protest the 1996 law.
		As the Brookings report helpfully points out, government programs became "much less effective in reducing poverty after 1993"--so much so that increases in earnings for poor single moms have been almost completely offset by losses in welfare benefits.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/179 (1163 words)

	BBC News \| HEALTH \| Bio-attack 'could kill a million'
		The Brookings Institution is advising President Bush to concentrate anti-terrorist efforts on thwarting "doomsday" scenarios such as these.
		The report, "Protecting the American Homeland", to be published on Tuesday, estimated that the greatest threat is posed by widely dispersed smallpox, anthrax or ebola.
		The White House is seeking a budget of $38bn for homeland security measures in the 2003 budget - a sum described as insufficient by the Brookings report.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/1958217.stm (364 words)

	Biotrends / Two major reports highlight the globalization of biotechnology and the battle within the U.S. for regional ...
		Two new reports paint the most detailed portraits yet of the increasing globalization of the biotech industry and the growing competition between U.S. metropolitan areas to become centers of bio-activity.
		A global study produced by Ernst & Young and a metropolitan report from the Brookings Institution are being unveiled as thousands of biotech executives, scientists and financiers from around the world gather in Toronto for the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention through Wednesday.
		The Brookings report added the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas to the top ranks on the basis of their proximity to large drug companies.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/10/BU212502.DTL&type=printable (1192 words)

	"Can We Fix the Decline in Marriage? — Brookings Gets It Right" by Warner Todd Huston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		It is quite an even-handed report and seems to confirm some things that many on the right and many among the nation's religious community have been saying for decades.
		One major theme that the report dwells on where it concerns poor mothers is the lack of trust they have for their men.
		Lastly the report presents "two cautions." First, that these programs must uphold individual choice and that those people such programs are trying to reach must be able to become participants in these programs of their own free will or they will be ineffective.
	www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=17101 (1028 words)

	1000 Friends of Oregon: News Release 2-21-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		February 21, 2002: A landmark report from the Brookings Institution confirms what Oregon growth management advocates have said for years: even though urban growth boundaries limit the supply of land for development, those limits do not play a significant role in housing price increases.
		The report characterizes as "far too simplistic" a common refrain of the development industry-the claim that limiting the supply of developable land reduces the supply of housing, thereby raising housing prices.
		The report does note that "both traditional land use regulations [e.g., exclusionary large-lot zoning] and growth management policies [including Oregon's land use laws] can raise the price of housing." However, traditional regulations raise prices by raising the cost of providing housing, or by restricting supply, or both.
	www.friends.org /issues/press/rel_brookings.htm (653 words)

	Baghdad Regime's Policies Continue to Shred Iraq's Social Fabric, December 9, 2002
		The Brookings Institution-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement is a non-governmental research program, supported by the United Nations, to shed light on situations of internal displacement that are closed off from international scrutiny.
		The report said most of Iraq's displaced families are living in makeshift "collective towns," barracks or other buildings not intended for permanent family accommodation.
		The report comes to a sobering conclusion that "the problems that led to the internal displacement of so many Iraqis are larger than merely the unacceptable behavior of the current regime in Baghdad.
	www.usembassy.it /file2002_12/alia/a2120908.htm (1298 words)

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		The Forward to Prosperity report was stimulated by an earlier study produced by the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy that concerned coalition members because of perceived shortcomings in its research methods and policy recommendations.
		The members of the PA Prosperity Coalition are: the Associated Pennsylvania Constructors, the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce, the Pennsylvania Aggregates and Concrete Association, the Pennsylvania Association of REALTORS®, the Pennsylvania Builders Association and the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association.
		The information in the 45-page Forward to Prosperity report is based on a scholarly review of the research literature, as well as original research including a statewide, random sample survey of 814 Pennsylvanians and six focus groups conducted with Pennsylvania business, government and community leaders.
	www.politicspa.com /Press_Releases/040205pba.htm (963 words)

	News from Congresswoman Jane Harman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Of the report, Harman said, "It would have been better if this report from Brookings supplemented a strategy from the Administration, but the Administration is still in search of a Homeland Security strategy.
		Brookings has a strategy but is in search of an Administration.
		I agree with Brookings that we are too focused on preventing attacks like those that already happened, while nuclear and bio terrorism threats are potentially more lethal.
	www.house.gov /harman/press/releases/2002/043002PR_Brookings.html (239 words)

	Brookings Or
		The fishing off the coast Brookings has been good as long as the weather co-operates with the fishermen.
		The ocean salmon season is open as of Saturday May 15th and fishermen launching from the Port of Brookings Harbor looking for the schools of Salmon lurking of the coast nearby.
		Some of the fishermen have reported catching most salmon on anchovies, using plastic nose holders with a pin to keep the bait on.
	www.wescraigs.net /Brookings/brookings_or.htm (3038 words)

	The Citizens Voice - Despite dim view of econmy, Brookings report says region has viable assets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Heads nodded in agreement and shook in disgust at the grim details of a far-reaching report on the state and regional economies presented in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday.
		The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy found Pennsylvania's economy is stagnant and reversing the trend will only come through fundamental changes in state spending and local governance.
		Muro of Brookings countered that the region's strong history and native-born population is a strength.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10645822&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6 (536 words)

	The Times-Tribune - Big changes take time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Secretary Yablonsky spoke with BusinessWeekly recently about the impact of Brookings report and the role his department hopes to play in bringing the state back to prosperity.
		A: The Brookings report was an affirmation of an analysis (the department) and the governor had already done about the general state of our economy.
		Brookings did a professional, high-quality analysis that allowed us to dive a lot deeper into the issues we were concerned about.
	www.thetimes-tribune.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13559676&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=8 (885 words)

	Daily Item - Opinion - April 11, 2004
		The Brookings’ "Back to Prosperity" report was issued in December, but still is making its rounds in business-development circles in the state.
		The short-and-not-so-sweet conclusion of the report is that Pennsylvania’s demographic trends and government inertia make it hard to attract and retain both businesses and people.
		But Brookings researchers have not completely given up on Pa. They cite several factors that could contribute to a turnaround, including a strong showing in higher-education and medical facilities.
	archive.dailyitem.com /archive/2004/0411/edit/edit.htm (292 words)

	Hard choices on the federal budget \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The Brookings Institution, one of Washington's prestigious think tanks, issued a study the other day on solving the nation's budget problems – a study that paradoxically helps explain why we don't fix them.
		Indeed, the report usefully shows that, depending on how rapidly health costs grow, the budget outlook goes from abysmal to catastrophic.
		The political role of places like Brookings is to clarify choices by voicing ideas that may be hard for politicians but, once broached, become more respectable.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050420/news_lz1e20samlson.html (736 words)

	Expo Web
		Addressing the recent Brookings Institute's report “Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy,” the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) has released a response asserting that the study was one-sided and didn't accurately review the entire universe of data.
		The Brookings study asserted an oversupply of exhibition space in the United States exists and that cities should reconsider spending more public funds on continued exhibition space construction.
		The report cited a drop in attendance as indication of a decline in the exhibition industry and doubted whether a significant rebound was in the offing any time soon.
	www.expoweb.com /headline_search.asp?id=4903 (218 words)

	Democracy In Albany - Mayor Jennings
		An article was recently written about the Brookings report on convention centers by Joe Mysak, financial writer at Bloomberg.com.
		If you read the Brookings Institute Report in full (and I recommend you do) you will see that two of the biggest money losing Convention Centers are in St. Louis and Washington, DC.
		In their May 2004 update of the 2001 report, SAG estimates that new space will be added to the market at a rate of 2.2% a year from 2004 through 2008.
	albanyny.blogspot.com /2005/01/convention-center-what-you-need-to.html (1017 words)

	Troubled Times: Brookings Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This warning was contained in a research report given to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration with the recommendation that the world prepare itself mentally for the eventuality.
		"Clearly, the better we can come to understanding the factors involved in responding to such crisis the better prepared we may be." The agency's 100-page report, prepared at a cost of $86,000 was for the space agency's committee on beings-in-space studies.
		On the question of life in outer space, the report said that if intelligent or super-intelligent beings were discovered in the next twenty years they would probably be found by radio communications with other solar systems.
	www.zetatalk.com /theword/tword11a.htm (308 words)

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