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RAIN 10/13 Part 2: E-mail Privacy?
Salt Lake Tribune 11/12/00
Adoptees struggle to open their state birth records
http://www.sltrib.com/11122000/nation_w/42798.htm
by David Crary
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Abigail Lovett searched for her birth mother for six years before
finding her in a psychiatric hospital on Long Island.
Tony Gambino pursued a similar quest, only to discover his birth mother had
died of cancer while desperately trying to locate him.
Lovett rekindled a relationship with her mother, whose condition improved so
dramatically that she was able to leave the hospital after 18 years as a
patient. Gambino, though devastated at learning of his mother's futile
search, tracked his 92-year-old grandmother to a tiny town in east Texas.
"I've been so enriched to be able to meet her," he says.
Sun Herald 11/12/00
Biloxi's maritime history well-told in photo book
http://vh60009.vh6.infi.net/living/docs/maritime111200.htm
Kat Bergeron
Have you ever wondered why shrimpers are out at night with their trawler
lights twinkling in the dark distance? Wouldn't close-in daytime shrimping be
easier?
In the 1930s, Biloxi shrimpers, accustomed to traditional daytime work,
discovered that brown shrimp - the variety most common in the warm months -
are more easily bagged at night in deeper water.
This and other fascinating facts are found in the new book, "Images of
America: Maritime Biloxi." Historian Val Husley has compiled 128 pages of old
photographs, and he tells the history of Biloxi's seafood and maritime
history through the captions.
Richmong Times Dispatch 11/12/00
Bay Catch: He focused on Chesapeake and its people
http://www.timesdispatch.com/flair/MGB11PIKBFC.html
by Janet Caggiano
A.Aubrey Bodine was 14 when he dropped out of school to help support his
family.
The oldest of three children, he took a job as a messenger at the Baltimore
Sun and earned $8 a week. He spent much of his time carrying a tripod, camera
and heavy glass plates for commercial photographer Herbert Moore.
Bodine never expected to find a career there, but fate had other ideas. One
day, while Moore was preparing to expose a picture, the flash powder exploded
in his face. Hospitalized with bad burns, Moore could not work. Bodine filled
in, doing so well that the Sun promoted him to commercial photographer.
Boston Globe 11/12/00
Who has control of the waters"
Maine, two tribes clash over rivers
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/317/metro/Who_has_control_of_the_waters_+.sh
tml
by Murray Carpenter
Globe Correspondent
A UBURN, Maine - Last Saturday, in a ceremony before 500 tribe members and
dignitaries, Barry Dana was inaugurated the new governor of the Penobscot
Nation.
Five days later, in an Androscoggin County courtroom filled with Indians from
tribes across the region, a judge found him in contempt of court.
And by 9 a.m. tomorrow, depending on the results of a tribal council this
weekend, Dana, accompanied by Passamaquoddy governors Richard Doyle and
Richard Stevens, may walk into jail to defend his freedom.
Judge Robert Crowley's contempt finding is the latest twist in a long, bitter
fight over control of water quality in two ancestral tribal rivers, the
Penobscot and the St. Croix.
The Ottawa Sun 11/12/00
Taking stock of the past
Company works to recover cash from old shares
http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaBusiness/63b1.html
by Geoff Matthews
Pierre Bonneau makes a living bringing the dead back to life.
Bonneau and his company, Stock Search International Inc., specialize in
reviving old stocks and bonds which may have been given up as worthless years
ago.
To date they have helped clients recover more than $5 million US.
The work can be painstaking, particularly if it involves a company which was
merged or bought out by a competitor years ago.
"We really have to go back in time and locate the issuing company at the time
the stock was purchased," said Bonneau.
Knoxville News-Sentinel 11/12/00
Protecting yourself online
http://www.knoxnews.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=WEBSPY-11-13-00&cat=FF
by Richard Adams
The Guardian
Last month British employers were handed new powers to spy on their workers'
use of company computers and telephones. This may be another sinister erosion
of the right to privacy in the workplace; there has already been a slew of
cases where workers have been fired for surfing the Net or for sending
inappropriate e-mails. Now management can find out how much time you spend
playing Solitaire on your PC at work.
But some help is at hand to allow you to avoid the prying eyes of your
superiors. Follow these 10 easy steps to reduce the risk that your next "shut
down" could be your last.
Sunday Times 11/12/00
Snap up a bargain at sale of historic theatre designs
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/11/12/stimonnws02010.html
by Peter Watson
One such gem is this month's sale of the Leslie Esterman collection of Music
in Art, a range of costume and set designs for ballet, film and opera.
Esterman, 86, worked as an optician but but was passionate about opera and
collected costume and set designs for 40 years. Most of the lots in this sale
are priced in the hundreds of pounds (a few reach five figures), yet the
total collection is expected to fetch about £150,000.
The appeal of theatre design, says Caroline Gaynor, a Phillips expert, is
that it combines so many different arts - music, painting, poetry and
textiles. And because it has only recently been recognised as an art form in
itself, prices are still modest. Gaynor says this is one field where dealers
are sparse, leaving us the choice pickings.
Washington Post 11/12/00
Chat room causes trouble for CIA employees
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64444-2000Nov11.html
by Vernon Loeb
The CIA is investigating 160 employees and contractors for exchanging
"inappropriate" e-mail and off-color jokes in a secret chat room created
within the agency's classified computer network and hidden from management.
CIA spokesman Bill Harlow said the willful "misuse of computers" did not
"involve the compromise of any classified information."
But the probe, nearing completion, involves employees at all levels of the
agency, including some senior managers, and most likely will result in at
least a few firings, agency officials said.
"The serious thing for us is people willfully misusing the computer system
and trying to hide what they were trying to do," said one intelligence
official. "If they were doing this with the KGB's computer system, we'd be
giving them medals. Sadly, it was ours."
New York Times 11/10/00
Ruling says parents have right to see list of sites students visit
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/10/technology/10CYBERLAW.html
by Carl S. Kaplan
I n an opinion sure to heighten the tension between some parents and school
systems over the Internet's role in publicly financed education, a New
Hampshire judge has decided that a parent is entitled to see a list of the
Internet sites or addresses visited by computer users at local schools.
Unless overturned on appeal, the ruling by Judge Gillian L. Abramson of
Rockingham Country Superior Court means that James M. Knight of Exeter, N.H.,
who brought the lawsuit last summer, may review a copy of the "Internet
history log" files from computers maintained by two local school districts.
The computer disk files contain a record of Internet sites visited by
computer users -- students, staff, faculty -- within the Exeter Region
Cooperative School District and the Exeter School District.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com
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