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Obama announced last month that he would personally pick the cybersecurity czar, who would report to the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. The cybersecurity community has for weeks been speculating about who will get the job. Many experts agree the President should not limit his search to tech gurus. "You don't need a doctor running health care, and you don't need a technologist running cybersecurity," says retired Major General Dale Meyerrose, of the consulting firm Harris Corp., who until recently was chief information officer for the Director of National Intelligence...
...look further than their local emergency department (ED). The overcrowding in EDs is so bad these days that patients who walk in with "immediate" needs, meaning the most severe on a clinical scale, wait an average of 28 minutes to see a doctor, according to a Government Accountability Office report released in May. That's 27 minutes more than the recommended wait time for such conditions. Between 1996 and 2006, even as some 200 EDs shut down completely, visits nationwide increased from 90 million to 119 million, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. EDs are so packed...
...refugee-assistance system as it exists is in crisis, and it's failing to meet its basic mandate to protect and serve refugees, said Robert Carey, vice president of resettlement policy at the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which assists Iraqis and other refugees resettle in the U.S. A new report co-sponsored by the IRC and the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute points out that the problems existed long before the economic downturn, but the recession has highlighted and worsened its flaws. (Read about the plight of Iraq's refugees...
...Administration appears to be listening. Scott Busby, director for human rights in the National Security Council's Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, said on Tuesday that the Administration is aware of the problems illustrated by the aid groups' report and is poised to embark on a review of the Federal Government's resettlement program. He cautioned, though, that some of the flaws in the resettlement program are fundamental structural problems that are going to take time to fix. "We will look at whatever the needs are and try to address them as quickly as we can," he said...
...also illegal. In 2006, India banned the employment of children below the age of 14 in homes and restaurants. And though the law has gone largely ignored by thousands of employers, it is getting more attention on national and international levels. Earlier this week, a U.S. State Department report on human trafficking indicted India for its lack of commitment to the issue, coinciding with a June 15 statement by a trial court in Delhi about the need to punish agencies that recruit children, along with child workers' family members. "We have lost our national conscience," says Shantha Sinha, chairperson...