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Trying to find information on the 2008 election? Visit USA.gov's new page: Presidential Election and Transition 2008; and take a look also at: Front pages, November 05, 2008 for headlines from different regions around the world the day after.
Business.gov, the official business link to the U.S. Government, has added a new search feature, Business.gov muscles up search, to help business and prospective business owners find government financial assistance.
"We've reduced the amount of time [someone] would have to spend searching for loans and grants," said Nancy sternberg, the program manager for the Business Gateway, the e-government initiative that spawned Business.gov.
Source: Government Computer News
Mark Newman, a professor of Physics at Michigan University has created a series of cartograms for both the:
elections using election results. The basic idea of a cartogram is to take a variable, such as the election results, and "map" them out accordingly. The distorted visualization often gives a better perspective of data results. In the case of the elections, the maps show a much richer picture of how the country voted and they help to alter the misconception of the purported "red state/blue state" division that a normal map tends to highlight.
Think Again: an authorative word on academic freedom by Stanley Fish
Source: New York Times, November 24, 2008
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