The good news is that US Homeland Security agents provided an "acceptable level of security" along 32 miles of the US-Canadian border in 2010, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The bad news is that they didn't do so well along the other 3,968 miles. Fact is, noted the GAO there is little, if any law enforcement presence along 99% of the rugged 4,000 mile-long Canadian border. [Learn more...]

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Come on and gather around the table. But before you eat, you might want to digest the 7th and latest edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans -- advice the Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) say will "promote health, reduce the risk of chronic diseases, and reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity." All of which will keep us healthy and paying taxes for decades to come. [Learn more...]

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Do you know what "Quantum dots" are? How about "Fomites" or "Ecolabeling?" Well, don't worry, because you can find the meaning and usage - in English and Spanish -- of those and more than 82,000 other terms in the USDA's 2011 edition of the on-line Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary. Read More...

Want to check the status of your federal income-tax refund on your mobile phone? The IRS has an app for that. The new IRS2Go refund status app is safe, secure, free and now available for iPhones, through Apple's iTunes app store, and for Google Android phones, through the Android Marketplace. Find out how to get and use the IRS2Go app. [Learn more...]

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