Does the patriot act empower the secretary of state or the secretary of treasury to designate groups as "terrorist organizations?" Sources are conflicting and list one or the other, but not both.

I've recently moved into a building that has a Singer 120u industrial sewing machine. This machine is like a machine gun for sewing. It has little guards on places where fingers could easily get snipped off. It also has a complicated and highly configurable threading system that works by friction on various metal plates and poles.

Where can I find the historic statistics of the number of people deported from the US? I have found references to random specific years, but I have yet to be able to find a basic overview of the number of people deported over the years.

I am looking for information on how much Fair Trade coffee Starbucks sells? How much of it is fair trade versus non-fair trade?? How much of the fair trade that they do sell is served made and how much is sold by the pound for making at home?? I know that Starbucks made a deal with TransFair USA to sell fair trade coffee (in 2001?). I feel like I have heard that the actual quantity they sell is far below what their marketing campaign leads people to believe. I have looked for percentages of how much of their coffee is fair trade, but I am not finding it. Any help on this and related info would be awesome.

What are the ingredients used in manufacturing cocaine that are industrial chemicals supposedly under regulation for their use in the drug trade? Of particular interest are the names of the chemicals

What are the top three corporations involved in Palm Oil Plantations (African Palm) in Latin America?

What we need to know is their names, logos, and in addition some of the major products that use Palm Oil.

What are the top six things that are considered "trade barriers" by the World Trade Organization?

There are many scholarships for "people of color" in library science. Many of these scholarships use the census definitions of what that means, i.e. American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander.

Until end of 2005, Steve Baum was CEO of Sempra Energy in San Diego, and Gordon Smith was president of PG&E. I want to know what their retirement packages amount to and include.

An article on PBS's Frontline Web site states, "In 1993 just about half of women between the ages of 18 and 29 said abortion should be available to anyone who wants it, according to a CBS/ New York Times poll; 10 years later, in 2003, the number of young women who felt that way dropped to 35 percent." I've searched the NYT on Lexis-Nexus and I can't find any articles that refer to the poll. How can I track down the original data?