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The White House has issued a detailed strategy (PDF) for dealing with a possible pandemic. Appendix C should interest legal researchers because it details the legal authority of the federal government to take the actions outlined in the plan. The plan is also available in PDF from FindLaw .

To celebrate its tenth anniversary online, The Wall Street Journal is making its entire website available to users with no charge. Special anniversary coverage includes a look back at previous versions of the website, year-by-year coverage of the most read articles, and more. Source: beSpacific

Every year American Lawyer Media publishes a detailed financial survey of the largest 100 law firms in the country. This year, the survey is published in the May issue of American Lawyer. Read highlights from the survey on the ALM Research blog . The survey, including data in spreadsheet format, may be purchased online .

Recent reports on legal topics: U.S. State Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism Vertex Inc.'s Sales Tax Report (PDF) focuses on changes to North American sales taxes in 2005 Amnesty International's Stonewalled – still demanding respect: Police abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the USA National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women's Marital Rape: New Research and Directions (PDF) AEI-Brookings Joint Center's The Law and Economics of Software Security Phoenix Center's Network Neutrality and Industry Structure (PDF) Center for Responsible Lending's Overdraft Loans: Survey Finds Growing Problem for Consumers (PDF) Source: ResourceShelf's DocuTicker

The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics has created an Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates webpage that contains occupational employment statistics for the years 1999-2004. Internet Legal Research Weekly describes the site : Here's another gem from the Department of Labor site. And it's very simple in what it offers: it's just employment and wage estimates for 1999-2004, broken down by occupational group. It's a good place to find the mean andmedian hourly wage estimates for nearly every job imaginable, both on the state and federal levels.

The Office of Immigration Statistics is an office within the Department of Homeland Security that is charged with "developing, analyzing, and disseminating statistical information needed to assess the effects of immigration in the United States." New information from the Office includes Naturalized Citizen Maps , Mapping Trends in Naturalization , 2004 Yearbook of Immigration Satistics , Legal Permanent Resident Population Estimates , and a Fact Sheet on Diversity Legal Permanent Residents . From Librarians' Internet Index .

The goal of the Iraq Memory Foundation is "...to place the Iraqi experience of suffering and oppression, between 1968 and 2003, in the global context of the history of pain and suffering." From the Librarians' Internet Index : The goal of this Baghdad-based foundation is to provides a "view of the inner workings of the Ba'thist institutions of repression and social control that dominated ... Iraqi life between 1968 and 2003." The site includes a description of projects and selected items from collections. In Arabic and English. The foundation is an outgrowth of the Iraq Research and Documentation Project (IRDP)founded at the Center of Middle East Studies at Harvard University.