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 <title><![CDATA[Will health databases spot bioterror attacks?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After Sept. 11 and the anthrax scare, health officials nationwide began clamoring for a better data infrastructure so they could view the same health data that the first responders in emergency rooms and ambulances were seeing.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bush bumps IT budget by 8% ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal IT budgets are rising&#151;but only for agencies with their management under control.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two senior officials working on e-government initiatives retired recently.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT projects take home awards of excellence]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Five government projects were honored recently with Excellence.Gov Awards, presented by the Industry Advisory Council, E-Gov and the CIO Council.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds get together for the kids]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal and industry IT people donned formal wear to join the crowd earlier this month at &#147;A Night for the Children,&#148; a gala and auction to benefit the Children&#146;s Inn at the National Institutes of Health.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO, Defense at odds over software report]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Accounting Office took Defense Department acquisition practices to task last month in two reports. One criticized DOD&#146;s method of purchasing services and the other slammed the Defense Logistics Agency for its software procurement procedures.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army opens more virtual doors to education]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Soldiers at bases in Colorado and Washington next month will be able to enroll in online courses at 23 colleges, bringing to five the number of bases using the eArmyU learning portal.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17966-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agency gets set to launch eNASA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NASA&#146;s new administrator, Sean O&#146;Keefe, has been on the job only two months, but the space agency&#146;s IT projects already bear his signature, insiders say.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OS Update]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[No matter what your operating system of choice, your choice just got better.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FTC breaks up chain-letter spammers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission launched an attack on purveyors of deceptive spam, announcing settlements with and injunctions against seven defendants who confessed to spamming consumers with chain letters aimed at cheating them out of cash.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17986-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Maine cops trap Net predators]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In cyberspace, nobody knows who you are. But that&#146;s no longer the case when investigators use tracking software from VisualWare Inc. of Turlock, Calif.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17987-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Rep. Davis calls on OPM to give more bonuses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) is urging the Office of Personnel Management to use pay-for-performance bonuses to help with the government&#146;s looming personnel crisis, especially as it affects IT workers.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cray, Dell will build custom Linux clusters]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cray Inc. will build and sell custom Linux server clusters using Dell Computer Corp.&#146;s PowerEdge servers and storage systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17989-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cybersecurity alliance has no leader or funds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Cyber Security Alliance, a government and industry project to promote the public&#146;s awareness of computer security practices, launched earlier this month without funding, a leader or a board of directors.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17990-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CIO Council makes CD guide for agencies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The CIO Council&#146;s Knowledge Management Working Group earlier this month released a CD-ROM designed to help agencies use and understand knowledge management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17991-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW: Maureen Conway, HP&#146;s transformation manager]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As vice president and CIO of Hewlett-Packard Co., Maureen Conway guides the computer maker&#146;s internal IT activities. Since taking the CIO job in December 2000, she has tried to redefine business processes in HP&#146;s divisions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17964-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DID YOU HEAR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Toga party at Justice. According to ABC News, the attorney general last month ordered draperies made for two large, partly clothed Art Deco statues of a man and a woman in the Justice Department&#146;s Great Hall. Justice may be blind, but not John Ashcroft. Comments, complaints? The National Coalition Against Censorship&#146;s Web site is encouraging people to send e-mail to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[UNSCRAMBLE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A SPORTING CHANCE]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The smart money goes to bed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent rash of financial improprieties has renewed the Rat&#146;s interest in his favorite investment vehicle: the mattress fund. With billions in shareholder value disappearing faster than you can say, &#147;What surplus?&#148; the paranoid rodent prefers to keep his assets where he can sit on them.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Current Issue Crossword/Puzzle ]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Michigan agency migrates sans migraines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Stan Rusiecki of Michigan&#146;s Family Independence Agency saw a big task ahead of him in late 2000.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/18024-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: If you make a contract mandatory, you better use it]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Imagine an agency plans to award multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts to provide IT for field offices. The typical contract minimum of $1,000 won&#146;t even cover the costs of a proposal. But the agency&#146;s multi-million-dollar annual IT budget looks very attractive. Several companies will decide to compete, and some will receive awards.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/18025-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[March 17-20. GITA Annual Conference and Exhibition. Tampa, Fla. Contact the Geospatial Information and Technology Association; Web: www.gita.org; phone: 303-337-0513.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/18026-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Path to the future? One feat in front of the other]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You&#146;ve made the decision to modernize your systems. No doubt getting to that point took a lot of time, analysis and soul searching. Now, where do you go from here?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17979-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[How to Plan It]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Without meticulous planning, a modernization effort can become a house of cards. A shakily constructed foundation risks the collapse of the entire edifice.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[How to Sell It]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Winning the buy-in battle might not be everything in the modernization effort. It might be the only thing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17981-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[How to Fund It]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The going can get tough for a modernization project when discussions turn to funding. That&#146;s when projects are put into competition with others; the government only has so much money to go around.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17982-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[How to Buy It]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom at some agencies is that contracting is done by the contracting folks, planning by the planning and program folks, and IT by the techies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17983-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[How to Manage It]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The term project derailment took on a whole new meaning Sept. 11. The future of some agency modernization projects hinged on team leaders&#146; ability to manage fallout from the tragedy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17984-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Survival of the Fittest]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[High-profile federal systems projects got a bad name in the early 1990s. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17985-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Interior to spend $65m to get back online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Interior Department expects to spend $65 million over the next three years to restore Internet service and upgrade security.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17992-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[House approves cybersecurity R&amp;D bill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives this month overwhelmingly passed the Cyber Security Research and Development Act, which would funnel $878 million over five years into long-term information security research.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17993-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD supports A-76 after all]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Department brass last month recommitted themselves to supporting OMB Circular A-76.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17994-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT mentors will identify best practices for e-gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In six weeks, 10 of the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s 24 approved e-government initiatives will each receive what could be a road map for success.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17995-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft is spending February squashing bugs, making amends]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp. software engineers are spending this month doing nothing but fixing bugs and security holes in the company&#146;s 20-year-old software product architecture.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17996-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NMCI adds new program office and manager]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy will establish a new program office for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, fulfilling a congressional mandate to appoint a single program manager to oversee the $6.9 billion outsourcing program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17997-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Homeland IT funds go to INS, cybersecurity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The administration&#146;s fiscal 2003 budget allocates $722 million for IT in homeland security.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17998-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB promises funds for 24 e-gov initiatives]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget has vowed to protect e-government projects&#151;especially its spotlighted 24 initiatives&#151;from congressional cuts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17999-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[One step forward, one step back at the border]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Customs Service has $300 million in its pocket this year to advance its Automated Commercial Environment system modernization, but the agency has suspended another IT project to speed trucks through border crossings.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/18000-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FAR Council rescinds the contractor blacklisting clause]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council has rescinded a controversial contractor responsibility clause, ruling that the current policy to ensure that agencies issue contracts to law-abiding companies works fine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/18001-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EDITORIAL]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Commercial computers date back to just after World War II. Yet job titles such as chief technology officer and CIO have only recently entered the management vocabulary.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17976-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[ANOTHER VIEW]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You can&#146;t manage what you can&#146;t measure. Federal agencies and Congress understand many of the measurable steps of modernizing IT infrastructures to enable e-government. But one component still eludes measurability and therefore better management, namely the people&#151;or human capital&#151;component.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17977-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Compare your pay with the top salaries of selected IT professionals in the U.S. for 2002, gathered by RHI Consulting, a division of Robert Half International Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17978-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Notebooks stake claim to desktop real estate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The portable PC started out luggable&#151;20 pounds or more&#151;and took more than a decade to shrink to its present 5- to 7 pound weight. Because portables used many of the same components as desktop systems, their portability came at a cost in performance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17974-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[N.Y. cabbies hail digital scanner]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New York City&#146;s taxicab drivers can gesture all they want at other motorists without having to worry about ink-stained hands.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17961-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Olympians go for gold over a fiber-optic net]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Participants in the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City this month share the common goals of athletic excellence, national pride and world peace.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17962-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[STATE LINES]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In absentia. Pennsylvania&#146;s Child Care Information Services maintained a faulty database of child care providers and as a result issued paychecks to persons who were in prison during the time they were thought to be watching children, according to the state&#146;s auditor.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17963-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Follow the Money]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Five years after the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act, most agencies still run separate, or stovepiped, financial systems. But the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management and State Department are no longer among them.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17967-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA portal is data&#146;s common ground]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency will seek proposals under a $100 million, 7-year task order to support the Central Data Exchange, a Web portal and network for transmitting data between the agency and outside organizations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_4/17968-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Less could be more ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Remember the BeOS operating system? It&#146;s fast, stable and a multimedia user&#146;s dream. Unfortunately, it never became much more than a dream because its low sales limited the development of hardware drivers.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Some federal sites walk on the wild side]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One great thing about the Web is the way you stumble across new things while looking up other things. Here are some tidbits I recently found while doing unrelated research.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>4</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Security experts preach the basics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There are no silver bullets for information assurance, experts inside and outside government said at recent conferences in Washington.]]></description>
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