The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also maintains an excellent collection of resources on mass casualty event preparedness and response.

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The National Rifle Association finally spoke out this morning in response to the mass killing at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, a week ago.

FORBES: NRA Proposes to Turn Every School Into an Armed Fortress

The expansion of mother tongue-based literacy programmes is an immediate response to the large mass of non-literate and disadvantaged castes and ethnic groups of women learners in Nepal.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN KATHMANDU

For example, states such as New York and Colorado have made meaningful changes in gun laws in response to the spate of recent mass shootings, and other states have meaningful restrictions on firearms possession.

CNN: Did we learn nothing from Newtown?

These include: search and rescue, homeland security, emergency response to the use of weapons of mass destruction and commercial aviation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Pentagon V-22 decision equals true transformation

Participants in the Roundtable also discussed the potential application of tiltrotor technology to such activities as search and rescue, homeland security, emergency response to the use of weapons of mass destruction and commercial aviation.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The V-22: Exemplar of Transformation

These records, together with the monthly mass balance measured since March 2000, document the annual response of the Martial Este Glacier to the climate variation.

UNESCO: Dublin Core

Senior State Department officials said Friday's move was part of a "carefully calculated series of steps" the United States decided to take in response to Libya's cooperation on weapons of mass destruction.

CNN: U.S. lifts most sanctions against Libya

Gun control is not the total answer to the problem of mass shootings, but it plainly needs to be part of any meaningful response.

CNN: In gun control debate, logic goes out the window

Rather, it was free-market economics and globalization that caused the mass migration of Muslims from East to West -- and multiculturalism was simply a policy response.

CNN: In Breivik, troubling echoes of West's view of Islam

Apparently, Nokia has been pleasantly surprised by the enthusiastic response to the N900 OS even though the enthusiast package is not quite ready for mass-market appeal.

ENGADGET: Nokia abandoning S60 for Maemo on future N-Series devices?