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RAIN 07/20: Room with a view



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New Scientist 7/22/00
Paper Chase
Analysing trace elements from documents may help catch the criminals
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns224824

Rachel Nowak
Everybatch of paper has a characteristic chemical fingerprint that could soon 
help to solve crimes as diverse as kidnapping, counterfeiting and fraud, say 
Australian researchers. 
Crime investigations sometimes hinge on identifying the source of paper used 
for a ransom note, say, or to alter a business contract. But standard 
forensic methods often fail to do this with white office paper, which is the 
commonest type. 
Now John Byrne of the University of Technology in Sydney and Lindsay Spence 
of the Queensland Police Service in Brisbane have come up with a rapid way of 
telling different white papers apart, using mass spectrometry to measure the 
trace elements they contain. 


Melbourne Age 7/20/00
Hospital records revealed
http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000720/A17543-2000Jul19.html

by Mary-Anne Toy
Public hospitals will be forced to make public their infection rates and 
other performance indicators and patients will be guaranteed access to their 
personal medical records under sweeping reforms of the Victorian health 
system.
Health Minister John Thwaites is expected to announce the changes today when 
he releases the final report of the Health Services Policy Review.
The introduction of annual "report cards" for hospitals is one of 33 
recommendations in the final report, which is aimed at removing barriers to 
competition among health providers and improving consumers' rights.


Columbia Daily Tribune 7/19/00
Fire Damages records
Firefighter suffers second-degree burn
http://www.showmenews.com/News/20000719News004.asp

By Kathleen McLaughlin
Mammogram records were lost in what appeared to be an electrical fire that 
started this morning at the Vandiver Drive office of a portable X-ray 
service. 
An odor of burning plastic and insulation filled the air around the Columbia 
office of American X-Rays of Mid-Missouri, 1900 Vandiver Drive. The building, 
which houses 8,000 to 10,000 X-ray films and radiologists’ reports, sustained 
some smoke and water damage, manager Ken Wiggins said. The company has 
contracts with 106 nursing homes from Warrensburg to Wellsville and from 
Macon to Lake of the Ozarks. 


Daily Oklahoman 7/19/00
City Schools face action over financial records
http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/shart?ID=518450&TP=getarticle

by Christy Watson
The Oklahoma City School District could be penalized millions of dollars this 
fall if district officials don't provide the state with accurate financial 
information, state schools Superintendent Sandy Garrett said Tuesday. 
Garrett said annual audits of the district's finances have become more 
accurate, but a change in state law will allow the state Board of Education 
to withhold an increasing percentage of state aid if the Oklahoma City 
district doesn't improve its financial accountability. The first of the 
monthly penalties would be $955,976. That would increase to $4.3 million in 
the fifth month and every month thereafter while the district remains out of 
compliance. 


Sky News 7/20/00
Millons of Tax files ‘missing’
http://www.sky.com/news/uk/story7.htm

Millions of tax records have gone "missing" after computer problems at the 
Inland Revenue, it is claimed. 
The magazine Computer Weekly has produced a leaked briefing paper appearing 
to show up to 5.2 million cases are under investigation because records have 
gone missing. 
It says the bungle occured after a computer holding national insurance 
details was linked with the computer operating the Paye scheme.Both systems 
are managed by private firms. 


Arizona Republic 7/19/00
Library’s Mesa Room illuminates city’s past
http://www.azcentral.com/community/comstories/0719history.shtml

by Betty Beard
In 1955, after four Mesa restaurants refused to serve a Black college student 
and prominent athlete from Tempe, someone named Cactus Pete wrote an angry 
letter to the Mesa Tribune. 
"It's high time some Mesa restaurants recognize the fact that segregation is 
a thing of the past," he said. 
A year later, the Better Community Council of Mesa, which battled segregation 
for years in Mesa, persuaded 48 restaurants to display "We do not 
discriminate" signs in their windows. 
That's just one of many vignettes of Mesa's past that are captured in old 
letters, newspapers, books, brochures, maps, scrapbooks and other items 
stored at the Mesa Room in the lower level of the main Mesa Public Library at 
64 E. 1st St. 


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 7/19/00
Window with a history
Rediscovered and restored, Chatham’s Tiffany is one of few that he did 
honoring women
http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000719chatham2.asp

by Donald Miller
In 1926, Chatham College decided to store a Tiffany window, removed from its 
former chapel, in a dusty basement. It would not be seen again for 70 years.
Commissioned in 1889 from Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), the window -- 
the oldest of its type in Pittsburgh -- moldered nearly forgotten in the 
college's Jennie King Mellon Library. 


San Francisco Examiner 7/19/00
Artists preparing a multimedia exhibition of forgotten history
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/hotnews/stories/19/li
brary.dtl

by Demian Bulwa
It's not much at first glance. The black-and-white portrait, perhaps dating 
to the 1920s or '30s, appears to show 11 men in suits, smiling assuredly as 
they don stately hats and canes and puff on pipes. 
But Betsy Levine, who discovered the photograph some 20 years ago while 
perusing her late great-aunt's home in New Haven, Conn., knew well to take a 
second glance. And that's when she saw that the 11 men were not men at all. 


Arizona Republic 7/19/00
Local firm aided by Hewlett-Packard
http://www.azcentral.com/business/0719imagetag.shtml

by Jane Larson
Computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Tuesday that it will invest $10 
million in a small Chandler firm that hopes to tame the office paper glut. 
ImageTag Inc., founded in 1997 by document-imaging veteran Steve Irons, has 
developed a system that uses bar-coded Post-it Notes to help office workers 
scan and file documents into their computers. 


Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 7/19/00
PSC needs to speed records responses, utility group says
Watchdog group says agency took average of 43 days to respond
http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/jul00/cub19071800a.asp

by Lee Hawkins, Jr.
The state Public Service Commission takes too long to respond to open records 
requests, and the state Legislature should set guidelines to speed up the 
process, a leader of a utility watchdog group said Tuesday.
The PSC has taken an average of 43 days to respond to open records requests 
filed by the Citizens' Utility Board over the past two years, said Steve 
Hiniker, CUB's executive director.


Savannah Morning News 7/19/00
Students urged to check college privacy policies
http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/071900/LOChigheredlaw.shtml

by Shannon Womble
ATLANTA -- Students should be asking colleges and universities about their 
privacy policies, making sure personal information isn't disseminated without 
permission, say legal experts. 
At a Tuesday conference in Athens, college and university officials met to 
discuss legal issues concerning students, faculty and administration. Among 
the topics were privacy issues surrounding students' academic records and 
information and the need for students to take a vested interest in their 
privacy. 



Houston Chronicle 7/19/00
Letter from Einstein given to local museum
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/607058

by Kelly Pedersen
It is a thrilling piece of history to behold: a typewritten letter from 
Albert Einstein -- one of the 20th century's foremost intellectuals -- 
thanking an American company for assisting Jewish refugees during the 
Holocaust. 
A Houstonian discovered the document in a Beverly Hills, Calif., art dealer's 
shop last year and donated it to the Houston Holocaust Museum last week. 




Peter Kurilecz
pakurilecz@aol.com

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