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RAIN 01/16: E-mail, medical and e-mails (Hiatus)



There will be a bit of a drought for the next few days as I head out of town
on business. Look for a resumption of RAIN come Monday morning.

Cincinnati Post 01/16/01
Medical archives a treasure
http://www.cincypost.com/news/medic011601.html

by Laurel Campbell
Cincinnati's medical past sits quietly in the midst of the University of
Cincinnati complex where students, professors and researchers are focused on
the future.
But the combination library-museum, the Cincinnati Medical Heritage Center,
is neither dusty nor stagnant.
Researchers still use the archives of polio vaccine developer Dr. Albert
Sabin. Lawyers search the records of Dr. Robert Kehoe, who studied the
effects of lead in the environment and body.
Even a family on a genealogical quest plans to visit this summer to view the
letters of their ancestor, a Civil War nurse.



NewsFactor Network 01/15/01
On King Holiday, U.S. History expands on the web
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/6708.html

by Elizabeth Kiggen
The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday is being recognized on the Web with the
e-publication of the historical saga of another African-American pioneer for
civil rights, Dred Scott. The Missouri State Archive has preserved and
published over 87 pages of the historical case on the Internet.
The case was filed in 1846 by Scott and his wife, who claimed they were free
because they had been transported by their owner to the northern territories
of Wisconsin and Illinois. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the ban on
slavery in those states, declaring Scott still a slave.



Los Angeles Times 01/16/01
So much e-mail, so little space
The U.S. government is grappling with how to store the White House's millions
of electronic epistles. And they're not all from Monica
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010116/t000004274.html

by J. Michael Kennedy
When Bill Clinton hands over the presidential reins to George W. Bush on
Saturday, the National Archives will be inundated with every e-mail written
during the last eight years by everyone from the president down to the
lowliest White House aide. Besides offering researchers all kinds of
titillating possibilities (Monica, Whitewater, Travelgate, etc.), it will
also be the biggest digital avalanche ever. A staggering 40 million e-mails
will wind up at the National Archives. And that's just the beginning.



The Irish Times 01/11/01
Clinton papers find new home in Arkansas
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/0111/wor4.htm

by Patrick Smyth in Washington
Woe betide the future students of the Clinton legacy. No president in US
history has accumulated so much paper work - 77 million pages of documents,
all of them now on the move to the site of the President's chosen archive
site in his home state of Arkansas. Even Ronald Reagan only accumulated some
50 million pages.



Evansville Courier & Press 01/16/01
Newspaper files suit to get documents on Knight firing
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?/200101/16+knight011601_news.html

+20010116+news

Associated Press
A second lawsuit seeking to force Indiana University to release documents
related to Bob Knight's firing has been filed in Monroe Circuit Court.
The case, brought by The Indianapolis Star, seeks access to documents in
Knight's personnel file and investigatory records compiled during IU's
inquiry into the conduct of the men's basketball coach.



The Tennessean 01/14/01 (Thanks to Belden Menkus for the tip)
Metro acts to preserve its archives
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/01/01823291.shtml?Element_ID=18232

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by Anne Paine
When Metro destroyed stacks of deed books dating from 1952 into 1964 last
January, archivists cringed.
Some records are worth keeping, they say. That includes deeds, marriages,
wills and certain court documents.
The Register of Deed's office had microfilmed the deed books - to the great
relief of the archivists. They say microfilm is second best to the paper copy.



Chicago Sun Times 01/16/01
Law libraries get copies of Lincoln papers
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/linc16.html

Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD--Wondering how Abraham Lincoln would handle a vexing legal issue?
Soon you can head to a law library to find out.
DVD-ROMs containing the complete legal papers of Lincoln are being sent to
law schools across the country, thanks to a grant given to the Lincoln Legal
Papers research project. There will be 150 copies sent out, and plans are to
put at least one in each state except Alaska.



Duluth News Tribune 01/16/01
Minneapolis judge helped make JFK documents public
Archivist to tell Duluth audience about assassination records
http://www.duluthnews.com/today/dnt/local/judge.htm

by Chris Hamilton
U.S. District Judge John Tunheim never knew much about the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy until six years ago.
The Minneapolis federal judge said having an open mind about the country's
largest and most controversial murder investigation is why President Bill
Clinton chose him in 1994 to head a massive effort to open government
records.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 01/15/01
Hospital audit finds problems with records, procedures
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/News/Headlines/FA6E9BFC5B11AD8B8625

69D6000B90E1?OpenDocument&Headline=Hospital%20audit%20finds%20problems%20with%

20records%2C%20procedures%20

by Judith Vandewater
A random federal audit of St. Mary's Health Center has turned up problems in
medical record keeping and identified a lapse in an infection control
procedure and in drug handling procedures at the Richmond Heights hospital.
Hospital officials said Monday that patients were never in danger and they do
not expect to be fined. The hospital notified the Health Care Financing
Administration on Friday of steps it is taking to prevent similar problems
from recurring.



St. Louis Post-Dispatch 01/16/01
Latin Dictionary and Grammar Guide challenge Notre Dame's Athletic Department
for most hits on school's web site
http://www.postnet.com/postnet/news/wires.nsf/StateRegion/1551D546DDDCCBD08625

69D6006F924C?OpenDocument

Ascribe News
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 16 (AScribe News) -- Brains are giving brawn stiff
competition on the University of Notre Dame's Web site.
A new service that counts the most frequently viewed Notre Dame Web pages
shows that a Latin dictionary and grammar guide is visited almost as
frequently as the Notre Dame athletics department site. The dictionary
continued to experience traffic similar to the athletic site even as the
Notre Dame football team appeared in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl and the women's
and men's basketball teams both were nationally ranked.



Washington Post 01/16/01
Patient files opened to marketers, fundraisers
Critics decry exemptions won through lobbying
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63303-2001Jan15.html

by Robert O'Harrow Jr.
New federal medical privacy regulations, touted by the Clinton administration
as a landmark of patient protection, will for the first time explicitly
permit doctors, hospitals, other health services and some of their business
associates to use personal health records for marketing and fundraising.
The rules were included in the federal regulations after a months-long public
relations effort by the industry. Under the exemptions, doctors, clinics,
hospitals and others that normally have access to medical records -- along
with business associates working under contract with them -- will be allowed
to send out individualized health information and product promotions.


Washington Post 01/14/01
TV's war without end
ON the tube, WWII's a thing of the present
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50954-2001Jan12.html

by Paul Farhi
On TV, Hitler never dies, MacArthur always returns and the French are forever
surrendering.
Somewhere, at just about every hour of the day, there's a World War II
documentary on the air. There's Rommel again, preparing for his showdown with
Montgomery at El Alamein. There's Jimmy Doolittle and George Patton. Here,
again and again, are the capital-letter events of six decades past: D-Day,
V-E Day, the Bomb, V-J Day, the Holocaust . . .
Cable's History Channel plays so many war documentaries (tonight it's "The
Last Days of World War II") that some have derided it as the Hitler Channel.
When it isn't bingeing on sharks, the Discovery Channel checks in with shows
like last month's "Search for the Japanese Fleet." Right now, PBS is readying
the 13-part "Battlefield." That's "Battlefield IV," to be precise -- two of
the three previous "Battlefields" focused on World War II also.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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