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   Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) , 2006

   The survey’s results indicate a very positive story for venture capital (VC) around the world in 2006. Although it looks as though the intersection of mature and emerging VC markets is imminent, the responses suggest that VCs are moving cautiously to select the right business models for a global approach to finding opportunities that will generate better returns for their investors. The 2006 results reinforce the overall messages from last year's survey, the first of its kind.

Paying for tomorrow: Practical strategies for tackling the public pension crisis

Deloitte Research , July 2006

Funding public pension systems represents one of the greatest financial challenges for state and local governments today. About 85 percent of state pension systems are underfunded, with enough assets to cover only 80 percent of their future pension commitments, according to Wilshire Research. The unsustainable growth in pension funding requirements could easily crowd out opportunities for governments to invest in education, economic development and health care.

    The National Academies 2005 Report to Congress

   The National Academies , 2005

    For more than 100 years, the National Academies have provided independent advice on issues of science, technology, and medicine that underlie many questions of national importance. The Report to Congress is an annual report of their work.

    Four organizations comprise the Academies: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.

   Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland

  U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea , 2005

   North Korea is well into its second decade of chronic food shortages. A famine in the 1990s killed as many as 1 million North Koreans or roughly 5 percent of the population. Millions more were left to contend with broken lives and personal misery. Particularly worrisome are the long-term effects, including irreversible ones, on the human development of infants and children. But North Korean claims that the famine was due primarily to natural disasters and external shocks are misleading in important respects.

Yahoo! Inc. 2005 Annual Report

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, the Yahoo! Directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January of 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

American Higher Education: How Does It Measure Up for the 21^st Century?

By James B. Hunt Jr., Thomas J. Tierney, May 2006

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

These essays by former Governor James B. Hunt Jr. and business leader Thomas J. Tierney lay out in succinct fashion the requirements of both our nation and our states for new and higher levels of performance from America's colleges and universities. I cannot overemphasize the importance and urgency of meeting these high levels of performance.

An Annual Report  On American Journalism

The State of the News Media 2006 is the third in our annual effort to provide a comprehensive look each year at the state of American journalism.

Our goal is to put in one place as much original and aggregated data as possible about each of the major journalism sectors.