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Washington Times 8/3/00
Hackers linked to China stole Los Alamos documents
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-20008321179.htm

by Bill Gertz
Hackers suspected of working for a Chinese government institute in Beijing
broke into a computer system at Los Alamos National Laboratory and pilfered
large amounts of sensitive information, including documents containing the
word "nuclear," The Washington Times has learned.
The incident involving sensitive but unclassified data was uncovered by a
National Security Agency computer analyst early last year but kept secret
until now, said U.S. intelligence officials who spoke on the condition of
anonymity.
"They [the Chinese] obtained the equivalent of a stack of documents 3 feet
high," one official said.
Officials said the case highlights the fact that foreign governments
continue to seek U.S. nuclear weapons information. They said it is a clear
example of Chinese government-sponsored computer spying techniques, which
Beijing's military has cultivated for several years.


Albuquerque Tribune 8/3/00
Error puts APS employee files on Internet sites
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/080300_internet.shtml

by Ander Lenderman
Employee Social Security numbers and information about a small number of
students was inadvertently made available on a publicly accessible Web site,
an Albuquerque Public Schools spokesman said.
People browsing the school district's main Web site on Wednesday were
allowed to access confidential files kept by the human resources department,
district spokesman Rigo Chavez said.


The Oregonian 8/3/00
Media prevail in suit over 1955 court files
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/08/nw_
52court03.frame

Associated Press
BOISE -- The Idaho Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the First
Amendment shielded The Idaho Statesman from any liability for publishing
part of a 40-year-old court file saying, perhaps falsely, that a Boise man
had a homosexual affair with his cousin.
Citing a 1975 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the three appellate judges agreed
that restricting the right of the media to publish documents contained in a
public court file would result in self-censorship that would deny the public
information it needs to continually assess the operations of its government
agencies.

difficulty connecting with the next two stories
Business Wire 7/31/00
IXOS-ARCHIVE implemented at Lehigh Cement
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000731/ca-ixos-software

SAN MATEO, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) - IXOS SOFTWARE, Inc., subsidiary of IXOS
SOFTWARE AG (NASDAQ: "XOSY", NEUER MARKT: "XOS"), a worldwide leading
provider of solutions for the management of eBusiness documents in
inter-enterprise system environments, announced today that Lehigh Cement, a
subsidiary of Heidelberger Zement Group of Germany, global manufacturers of
cement, is utilizing IXOS-ARCHIVE for imaging in accounts payable, with
plans for data archiving in the near future. Lehigh Cement cited product
functionality and tight integration with SAP(TM) R/3(R), as top criteria for
investing in IXOS-ARCHIVE as their eBusiness document solution.


CNW-PRN 7/31/00
Jetform introduces web tools to create and present real-time, dynamic
e-documents
http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000731/jetform-weboutput-pak
http://news.excite.com/news/pr/000731/jetform-weboutput-pak

e-Document Web solution accelerates e-business initiatives, cuts printing
costs and offers customers around-the-clock access to up-to-the minute
information
Updated 8:03 AM ET July 31, 2000

OTTAWA, July 31 /CNW-PRN/ - JetForm(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: FORM, TSE: JFM)
announced today the JetForm Web Output Pak(TM) for creating and presenting
real-time, dynamic electronic documents. This unique product enables
companies to present e-documents in a Web-browser environment by efficiently
transforming existing data from legacy systems into the Web-server
environment.



A court shedding its load of paper
In a stunning electronic leap forward, all Municipal Court cases will be
moved onto 13 computer discs
http://web.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/08/02/city/PEFILE02.htm

by L. Stuart Ditzen
The Municipal Court of Philadelphia, home to 160,000 small-claims lawsuits
every year, is up to its ears in paper.
It takes in so much paper that a year's worth of small-claims files, packed
on shelves, would stretch the length of a couple of football fields.
There is so much that it has to be shipped by the truckload to a warehouse
on North Broad Street for storage every year.
So much that people who run Philadelphia's court system are bloody well sick
of it.
And they aren't going to take it anymore.
Correct. They literally are not going to take paper anymore.
Through the wonders of the electronic age, the once-antiquated Municipal
Court is now in the midst of a great leap into the future. It is on its way
to becoming a "paperless" court - one of the first in the nation.



Las Vegas Sun 8/3/00
Researchers say popular tale of Nevada statehood a myth
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2000/aug/03/510588549.html

by Scott Sonner
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Contrary to the myth still taught in most Nevada classrooms,
the real story about the Silver State's entry into the Union has its roots
in the Republican Party's inaugural convention here in 1856.
The textbook version - perpetuated in an episode of the TV Western "Bonanza"
nearly 30 years ago - has President Abraham Lincoln rushing Nevada into
statehood in 1864 to capture the wealth of the Comstock Lode.
The idea, as any saloon keeper will tell you to this day in Virginia City,
Nev., was to ensure the biggest gold and silver strike in the West would go
to the United States to help the North win the Civil War.
With the motto "Battle Born," the state flag bares witness to the folklore.
But some little-known research by history professors at the University of
Nevada, Reno, and a state archivist with a reputation for busting popular
Western myths suggests the real driving force behind Nevada's statehood was
as old as government itself.



Everett Herald 8/1/00
Port to air public access data
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/00/8/2/12834615.cfm

by Mike Benbow
EVERETT --The Port of Everett is planning to track and report annually what
it spends to provide public access to the waterfront following pressure from
neighborhood residents.
A resolution that would make that information more readily available was
introduced Tuesday at the port commission's regular work session and will
likely be considered next week.



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