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Editor & Publisher Online 01/18/01
Bell & Howell to digitize old newspaper archives
Project kicks off with NY Times
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/011801n3.htm

Bell & Howell's Information and Learning Unit, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and
The New York Times have agreed to digitize the newspaper back to its very
first issue in 1851. Every single page of the newspaper - including
advertisements, photos, and graphics - will be included.


New York Times 01/18/01
A Clinton web site for posterity's sake
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/18/technology/18GFLO.html

by Shelly Freierman
A long with Air Force One and the White House china, the official Web site of
the president of the United States will be passed to George W. Bush at noon
on Saturday.
The Web site for the Clinton administration, at www.whitehouse.gov, will not
be Bill Clinton's anymore, but it will not be lost. The National Archives and
Records Administration will maintain the site as a historic record, as it
exists at 11:59 a.m. on Saturday.



Networkmagazine.com 01/05/01
State-of-the-Art Storage
http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20010104S0002/3

by Charles T. Clark
With the advent of Storage Service Providers (SSPs), these customers wanted
to take advantage of SANs to perform this operation electronically rather
than physically. One problem: The enabling Fibre Channel technology didn't
allow data to traverse the required distances. Optical MANs helped solve this
problem.



Associated Press 01/16/01
Report: Pfizer used backdated letter
http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/1-16-2001/20010116041126420.html

WASHINGTON (AP) _ A Nigerian doctor says his office created a backdated
letter that the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. later used to justify
its conduct in a controversial drug experiment on desperately ill children in
the African nation, The Washington Post reported.
The newspaper, on its Web site Monday night, quoted the doctor as saying the
document was created when Pfizer officials asked for proof that the earlier
tests had been reviewed in advance by a Nigerian ethics committee, as
required by U.S. law.



CANOE 01/19/01
Ford, Web publisher settle suit over internal automaker documents
http://www.canoe.ca/BizTicker/CANOE-wire.Ford-Internet-Suit.html

Associated Press
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. and a Mustang enthusiast who put some
of the automaker's internal documents on the Internet have settled a lawsuit,
ending a lengthy legal battle.
A settlement between the No. 2 automaker and Robert Lane of Dearborn, Mich.,
was approved on Jan. 2 in the U.S. District Court in Detroit.
In a suit filed in August 1999, Ford claimed Lane violated copyright laws and
illegally published trade secrets by posting documents detailing Ford plans
and business strategies on www.blueovalnews.com.



New York Times 01/19/01
Free-speech advocates fight filtering software in public schools
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/19/technology/19CYBERLAW.html

by Carl S. Kaplan
One month after Congress passed a law pressuring public schools and libraries
to install blocking or filtering software on computer terminals to screen out
Internet smut, three free-speech powerhouses are gearing up to slay the
measure in federal court.
"This law requires, for the first time in the nation's history, that local
libraries censor speech for every adult and every child. That's got to
present First Amendment problems," said Chris Hansen, a senior staff attorney
with the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to the new federal
statute, known as the "Children's Internet Protection Act."



Charleston Gazette 01/20/01
Officials lock up payroll records
Documents detail Underwood team's spending practices
http://www.wvgazette.com/news/News/2001011963/

by Phil Kabler
Payroll records for the Underwood administration were placed under lock and
key Friday, pending a legislative audit of a last-minute spending spree that
paid out more than $300,000 to two dozen senior staffers.
Ed Staats, operations director for Gov. Bob Wise, said Friday he ordered that
records in the governor's budget office be locked up until an audit is
completed.




The Straits Times 01/18/01
He refused to hand over files
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,18533,00.html?

A LAWYER has been suspended from practice for six months for refusing to hand
over files on the purchase of 25 properties to his former client and the
client's new solicitor.
Arjan Chotrani Bisham, a conveyancing lawyer who had been in practice since
1985, had been found guilty of misconduct by the Law Society's disciplinary
committee in 1999, because he had not delivered the documents.



Harvard Crimson 01/19/01
Holocaust books to remain on Harvard's shelves
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010119/politics-195

by Andrew S. Holbrook
(U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For nearly five decades, Harvard University's
libraries have housed several hundred books looted from Holocaust victims and
sent back to the United States by the victorious Allies, a government report
revealed this Tuesday.
The report -- issued by the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets --
identified thousands of books and works of art that were shipped to libraries
and museums throughout this country in the years after the Second World War
and were never returned to their original owners.



Washington Post 01/18/01
In Mexico, bitter words over a writer's legacy
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/style/A10209-2001Jan17.html

by Mary Jordan
Washington Post Foreign Service
MEXICO CITY -- She, beautiful and romantic and still grieving over the loss
of her husband, writer Octavio Paz, surrounds herself with his books and
takes telephone calls on one side of the centuries-old hacienda. He, a
historian and disciple of the poet and essayist, answers e-mail on the other
side of the historic home.
These days the two barely speak and their feud has become the talk of Mexico.
At stake is the legacy of one of Mexico's icons, its only Nobel Prize winner
(in 1990) in literature.



Las Vegas Sun 01/19/01
EPA threatens huge fines over Freon
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-gov/2001/jan/19/511322625.html

by Adrienne Packer
Federal officials investigating whether Clark County employees mishandled
refrigerant said Thursday the county could face a maximum fine of $25,000 a
day for a two-year period if it's found in violation of federal laws.
Last month the Environmental Protection Agency requested inventory documents,
receipts and invoices related to the Freon. It also asked for documents
detailing repairs done to county equipment that uses the ozone-depleting
chemical.



The Daily Universe 01/17/01
LDS Church, BYU donate manuscripts to Polish archives
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010117/university-58

by Christina Robertson
(U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah -- Representatives of Brigham Young University and The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently donated historic
manuscripts to the Polish national archives.
On Dec. 19, BYU and LDS Church representatives attended a ceremony of more
than 100 guests and news media where they returned historical records of the
prominent Potocki family that had been scattered since World War II.



Los Angeles Times 01/20/01
Man admits falsifying blood data
http://www.latimes.com/editions/orange/business/20010120/t000005782.html

by Bonnie Harris
A San Juan Capistrano man pleaded guilty Friday to falsifying records to
regulators on blood and plasma he collected and sold at his Orange County
laboratory.
Federal prosecutors said there was no evidence that any blood products
distributed by Craig H. Petrik's company were contaminated. As part of the
plea agreement, officials refused to discuss what might have prompted Petrik
to submit false records to the Food and Drug Administration during a 1997
inspection of the company's Orange facility.




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

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