• Universal credit - being introduced by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith this year - aims to simplify the welfare system by replacing a number of existing working-age benefits, including the income-based jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment support allowance, housing benefit, working tax credit, child tax credit and income support.

    BBC: mum and daughter

  • The legislation will create a national body, the Scottish Children's Hearings Tribunal to oversee the 40-year-old system, presently run by councils.

    BBC: Children's Hearings Bill debate

  • That characterization, Gore argued, carried over into almost all of the governor's other social policy planks -- including his proposals to overhaul the 35-year-old Medicare system and provide prescription drug coverage to seniors by encouraging the participation of private insurers with the enticement of federal subsidies.

    CNN: Bush, Gore stalk stage and each other in final debate

  • The black holes are separated by an estimated distance of less than a third of a light-year - cheek-to-cheek by black hole standards and significantly closer than the postulated binary system spotted by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2003.

    BBC: Dancing black hole twins spotted

  • It's not clear at this point why a year-old system is being stifled by this seemingly arbitrary restriction, but with the PlayStation 3 offering developers Bluetooth out of the box, it seems that Microsoft either needs to change its tune or risk losing the small-but-vocal "rocker wannabe" demographic to the enemy.

    ENGADGET: Report: Microsoft not down with third-party 360 wireless peripherals

  • 's one-year warranty on the base system is voided by the conversion and replaced with the Modbook Pro Protection Plan, which covers the entire hardware solution, including the base system.

    ENGADGET: Modbook Pro to launch with SSD storage, up for pre-order October 3rd

  • An energy bill passed last year by the House of Representatives included a controversial cap-and-trade system.

    CNN: Top issues: Energy and environment

  • The broader state system of two- and four-year colleges governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents is also part of the agreement announced Thursday.

    WSJ: Higher ed systems in 10 states turn to Coursera

  • The FAA predicts that delays will increase 62 percent by the year 2014, given projected passenger growth and the antiquated air-traffic control system.

    NPR: Holding Pattern: Flight Delays are Going Up, Up, Up

  • By next year, Kim will have put every employee on a pay-and-promotion system that is performance-based, trashing the traditional seniority-based system that Korea inherited from the colonizing Japanese.

    FORBES: Korea's King Of Options

  • Although the U.S. Congress is likely to impose a cap-and-trade system after the presidential election later this year, proposed legislation by U.S. senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner would limit the value of foreign credits by allowing U.S. companies to use them to cover only 15% of their emissions.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The EU-funded project has about 35 researchers working on it and hopes to demonstrate how the system might work by the end of its four-year duration.

    BBC: Robots to get their own internet

  • After a while though, they might be able to stop doing that once the entire early-warning system is installed, which is expected to be by next year.

    CNN: story.bouy.jpg

  • Ms. Stavney's work as a master teacher is informed by a three-year project our foundation funded to better understand how to build an evaluation and feedback system for educators.

    WSJ: Bill Gates on the Importance of Measurement

  • Progress continues on a supplemental ore feed system, with the project is on track for completion by year-end and 130, 000-ton-per-day throughput expected by the end of the first quarter of 2012.

    FORBES: Goldcorp CEO Sees Higher 4Q Gold Output; Company Soon To Be Major Silver Producer

  • The bill calls for a cap-and-trade system designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 66% by the year 2050, as has been touted by its supporters.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Hindsight to augment our foresight

  • The company added that it was on track to sell 5 million units by the end of the year, based on its estimates and the number of pre-orders for the system.

    FORBES: Microsoft Sells 1 Million Kinect Units In The First 10 Days

  • Orszag made an opening statement in which he praised the work of the budget committees and announced a new tax-reform commission that would recommend ideas for overhauling the system by the end of this year a bit of news that would help distract from the emerging story line of Democratic disunity.

    NEWYORKER: Money Talks

  • Another example -- COSCO, a company with reportedly close ties to the Chinese military, was divested last year by the Texas Teacher's Retirement System when a woman state legislator, Susanna Gratia-Hupp who represents Fort Hood, raised this issue with the Board of TRS and the Texas legislature.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

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