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 <title><![CDATA[Biometrics on the front line]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s difficult for soldiers and Marines in Iraq to tell friendly residents from insurgents and terrorists, but biometric devices are helping them. Troops and intelligence analysts are using biometrics to hire and maintain an Iraqi workforce, protect military bases and monitor inmates at detention centers.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM retreats on E-Learning contract]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management last week wrote another chapter in its spotty procurement history, postponing a solicitation for the E-Learning project. Vendors had complained about the appearance of bias toward the incumbent contractors.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26931-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Weaving a tighter web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HTML pages and Adobe Portable Document Format files aren&#146;t just the highly visible face of federal agencies anymore. Increasingly, they are the currency of internal and intra-agency communication, much of it driven by mandates for common enterprise architectures.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26946-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on content management tools ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Web content management software lets users publish documents and other material to the Web while keeping track of the data and maintaining control over format, rules and regulations.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Contribute 3 puts users in the driver&#146;s seat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Though not as industrial-strength as some Web content management systems, Contribute from Macromedia Inc. of San Francisco has become a popular tool for fast, easy Web content management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26948-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Anderson leaves the fold at OMB]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tad Anderson took the leap from government to industry earlier this month, and colleagues from both sides of the aisle marked the occasion at a Washington restaurant.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26915-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Debra M. Filippi, former deputy director of Marine Corps command, control, communications and computers, and deputy CIO, has taken over as program director of the Defense Information Systems Agency&#146;s new Net-Centric Enterprise Services initiative.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26917-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds have mixed views on value of academic credentials]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To many government managers, on-the-job IT experience counts more than formal education. Yet they think a degree is a good predictor of ability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26938-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO points out challenges of building global info grid]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s Global Information Grid&#151;a massive IT infrastructure project&#151;lacks an investment and oversight strategy. Plus, the department faces significant management, operational and technical challenges to pull it off, according to a Government Accountability Office report.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26932-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency recently finished the first round of the Defense Finance and Accounting System server consolidation project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26933-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HUD&#146;s $705m HITS is again given to EDS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Following a protest and recompetition that took a year, the Housing and Urban Development Department this month awarded a contract for its IT infrastructure to the original winner, EDS Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26909-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO checklist covers rules of financial IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Government Accountability Office has published a checklist to help agencies meet the federal financial system requirements developed by the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26910-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense could buy smarter, auditors say]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department still has a shortage of best practices and controls for business systems acquisition, the Government Accountability Office said late last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26911-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[USDA award sets up single recreation site]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department&#146;s Forest Service has awarded a contract to ReserveAmerica of Ballston Spa, N.Y., for a single, interagency federal recreation information and reservation service.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26912-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HSARPA funds advanced sensor systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With a $1 billion R&amp;D budget requested for fiscal 2006, the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding advanced systems to detect biological, chemical, nuclear and cyber threats to U.S. citizens and infrastructures.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26913-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS IT will no longer have that Spirit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has cancelled the $5 billion Security, Planning and Integrated Resources for Information Technology program for a broad range of IT services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26914-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air Force tries a new way of buying]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lt. Col. Thomas L. Gaylord helps the Air Force buy smarter.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Quagmire. Sounds ominous when applied to software, doesn&#146;t it? But that&#146;s what the Software Productivity Consortium of Herndon, Va., calls its compliance map of the umpteen national and international software quality and standards frameworks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26918-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal Space: Measuring progress]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over her 20-year federal career, Renee M. Russell, a registered architect at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., has found easy access becoming more and more important to naval personnel as well as civilian workers. &#147;Now it&#146;s the premier specialty of my small business,&#148; she says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: So whose blog post is that, anyhow?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There are few things the Rat loves more than a good whodunit. He&#146;s been reading a really good one lately, but it isn&#146;t a book&#151;it&#146;s on the Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26920-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Taking full advantage of share-in-savings contracting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the goals of the E-Government Act is to encourage the use of share-in-savings contracts. These are performance-based contracts where the contractor is paid a share of the money it saves the government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26957-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[There&#146;s more to the game than knowing the rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To win the funding game, you&#146;ve got to know the rules. But knowing the rules isn&#146;t enough&#151;there&#146;s much more to getting your IT initiative underwritten. Knowing the rules never hit a ground-rule double or put a 20-foot putt in the hole.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26949-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The funding equation starts at 300]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies used to give their IT business cases the casual treatment. &#147;A few years ago, agencies could fill out a 300 in a few days without doing their homework and get passing grades,&#148; said management consultant Jim Kendrick, president of the P2C2 Group Inc. of Kensington, Md.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26950-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[An inside view: how to build a business case]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New initiatives for federal IT investments face a rigorous process of planning and justification to obtain approval by the Office of Management and Budget. Here are some steps for making the case to OMB for funding for a &#147;ground zero&#148; project, from Jim Kendrick, president of the P2C2 Group Inc. of Kensington, Md., based on his experience in helping agencies prepare Exhibit 300 business cases.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26951-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Inside the evaluations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[During his five years with the Office of Management and Budget, fall meant two things to Tony Frater: the start of the Green Bay Packers&#146; season and the reading of IT business cases. Many hours of reading.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26952-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[56 for 56]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department batted 1.000 this year, when the Office of Management and Budget approved all of its 56 submitted IT business cases for fiscal 2005 on the first try. An Exhibit 300 that fulfills OMB requirements means the IT project has a better chance at funding.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26953-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Working the hill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to money, Congress is the final arbiter. What are the ins and outs of making the case for funding once the president&#146;s budget request goes to the Hill?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26955-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD takes a different route to same goal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In many ways, the Defense Department operates under different budget rules than do civilian agencies, but it still has the same two masters: the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26956-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online extra: State OKs biometrics passports]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The State Department plans by December to choose a vendor to provide millions of passport covers bearing biometric chips with digital images of the holder.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26976-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS wants outside look at feasibility of its modernization]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS has hired a consultant to review its Business System Modernization plans.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26921-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[2004 tax law update already under way for CADE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Computer Sciences Corp. has begun applying 2004 tax law changes to update the new IRS taxpayer database.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26922-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Despite laggards, more agencies heed OMB cybersecurity message]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When agencies moved more slowly to secure their IT systems than the Office of Management and Budget expected, administration officials responded with disgust and impatience.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26923-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[U.S. Visit adds system to track departing travelers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator System program now can track travelers coming and going.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26924-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NARA narrows e-records competition to Harris, Lockheed Martin]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the next 12 months, the National Archives and Records Administration will choose a system costing up to $500 million to manage the federal government&#146;s digital records.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26925-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Wait returns to PostNewsweek]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Patience Wait, formerly a reporter with Washington Technology, has returned to PostNewsweek Tech Media as a reporter for Government Computer News, WT&#146;s sister publication. Wait left earlier this year to work in public relations for Lockheed Martin Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26926-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN launches news service for handhelds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Daily and topical news stories from GCN.com and Government Computer News can now be downloaded onto personal digital assistants through a new AvantGo channel launched this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26927-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Does every vote count? Public and experts split]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite concerns of security professionals, members of the public have a high level of trust in electronic voting.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26928-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[California review team wants a technology division]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A massive report commissioned by California&#146;s governor recommends that the Golden State consolidate and standardize its IT operations and set up a new technology division as part of an overhaul of the state&#146;s cash-strapped government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26929-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intelligence question]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department had no sooner launched a terror threat warning in early August than news outlets such as National Public Radio trotted out this and that expert, criticizing the department. Either DHS was a) crying wolf or b) giving the terrorists too much insight into our national response to threats.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26934-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Emerging IT management roles]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Increasingly, IT is being bought or deployed as a service. Applications software yields most value when shared as a service across an organization. Similarly, hardware is most productive when shared via storage area networks and utility computing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26935-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Travel light with a multifunction handheld]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Handheld computers, like cell phones, have become work necessities, not mere niceities.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26958-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Database finds Mississippi bad guys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When three Mississippi counties began using the records management component of the statewide Automated Systems Project last month, they soon solved a Jackson County case.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26972-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ambulance tracker. Boston&#146;s emergency medical service used a mobile resource management application that employs the Global Positioning System to oversee ambulances during the Democratic National Convention.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26973-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Localities&#146; dual-use projects will aid homeland security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[State and local IT managers are far less excited than their federal counterparts about homeland security.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26940-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Boss alert]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The House Government Reform Committee grades agencies on computer security once a year, but the U.S. Agency for International Development sends its managers a report card every month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26939-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army recruits blues to green]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department last month approved the Army&#146;s plan to recruit hard-to-find IT experts and intelligence and imagery analysts, among other personnel, from the ranks of its fellow military services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26941-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Web security gets even]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s bad when almost every e-mail user gets bombarded by a virus, as happened last month courtesy of previously unexploited search engine vulnerabilities.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26942-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Louisiana takes a bite out of food stamp fraud]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[About 4 percent of Louisiana&#146;s $650 million food stamp program is eaten up by fraud each year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_23/26943-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NSF funds database gymnastics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation has the urge to merge, at least when it comes to databases.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>23</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Linux development goes corporate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To ease policy-makers&#146; concerns about potential legal and security trouble from agency use of the open-source Linux operating system, Linux kernel manager Andrew Morton recently told Senate staff members that most kernel modifications now come from corporations, not individuals.]]></description>
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