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RAIN 01/28: Weekend Update Part 1



Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 01/26/01
Adoption-records bill held up in committee
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Fri/ark/A8yxgr-adopt26.html

by Chris Osher
Liz Heller prayed that lawmakers would remember her words as they voted one
by one.
She hoped they would think of what it was like to feel the kick of a baby
that comes from a rape and of her desire to leave that child in the hands of
another, never to be heard from again.
"Please let them feel the pain I've felt," she later recalled praying
silently as she watched the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee
votes being tallied.



Casper Star-Tribune 01/26/01
Plan to sample Indian account records would waster money, critics say
http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/25IndianFund.html

by Matt Kelley
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Records on a $500 million system of trust accounts for
American Indians are in such disarray that a statistical sampling is the most
cost-effective way to determine how much the government owes the Indians,
Interior Department officials have decided.
A final action of former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was approval of the
sampling plan, projected to cost up to $70 million.



Russia Today 01/26/01
Historians reveal how Soviets copied U.S. B-29 plane
http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=269397

Reuters
WASHINGTON, Jan 26, 2001 -- (Reuters) Historians from the former Cold War
adversaries revealed on Thursday how the Soviet Union in the 1940s copied
piece by piece the American B-29, the only plane capable of transporting
nuclear weapons at the time.
The event to unveil the revelations was itself a striking testament to how
times have changed since the Cold War.



Reuters 01/25/01
Museum wins Howdy Doody TV puppet custody battle
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010125/re/life_puppet_dc_2.html

HARTFORD, Conn. (Reuters) - A federal judge has ruled that a Detroit museum
is the rightful owner of the original Howdy Doody, the freckle-faced puppet
that enchanted American children in the 1950s, after a two-year custody
battle with the family of the late puppeteer.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Droney ruled there was a clear contractual
agreement between Rufus Rose, the puppeteer who died in 1975, and the NBC
television network, promising to give Howdy to the Detroit Institute of Arts.



New York Times 01/26/01
Supreme Court to consider digital images
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/26/technology/26CYBERLAW.html

by Carl S. Kaplan
At the heart of a hotly debated federal child pornography law that the United
States Supreme Court accepted for review this week is a simple question with
implications for the digital world: May the government criminalize
computer-generated images of fictitious people engaged in imaginary acts?



Detroit News 01/21/01
Thieves plunder libraries for profit
International black market saps treasures from book collections
http://detnews.com/2001/metro/0101/22/a01-178263.htm

by Jennifer Brooks
ROMEO -- Until the FBI called to return the stolen book, the Romeo Public
Library didn't even know it had been robbed.
Recovered from a stash of stolen literature seized by agents, the book was a
dusty county atlas from the 1880s that probably had been part of the
library's collection when it opened a century ago.
It was the kind of book that sits forgotten on a back shelf until somebody
needs to do a school report. The kind of irreplaceable book that is vanishing
with increasing frequency from libraries like Romeo's, local historical
societies and even the reference stacks and vaults of the Vatican as thieves
realize their value.



Government Technology 01/2001
New roles for a new age
LIBRARY'S ROLES ARE CHANGING AS MORE INFORMATION IS STORED IN DIGITAL FORM
http://www.govtech.net/publications/gt/2001/Jan/newroles.phtml

by Tatiana Ershova
Special to Government Technology
Libraries are vital public services created to ensure the long-term
accessibility of recorded information. That is what they do now, and that is
what they will do in the future. They acquire, catalog or process, organize,
offer for use and preserve publicly available material irrespective of the
form in which it is packaged. When it is needed, it can be located and used.
This is the unique function of the library, and no other institution employs
this long-term, systematic process. Nothing about this is going to change in
the digital world.
In the context of the development of the information society where human
intelligence is replacing physical capital as the chief factor of growth, the
following assumptions can be made:



ABC News  Online 01/26/01
Dick Smith donates funds to preserve history
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-26jan2001-35.htm

Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith has donated $50,000 to the National
Library of Australia in Canberra to assist in funding the digitization of
documents left by Australia's first prime minister, Sir Edmund Barton.



San Jose Mercury News 01/26/01
Schindler widow gives documents to Bonn museum
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/world/docs/schindler26.htm

Associated Press
BONN, Germany (AP) -- Germany's main history museum has acquired documents
from Oskar Schindler's widow, including excerpts from the diary of one of
hundreds of Jews the German industrialist saved from death at the hands of
the Nazis.



San Jose Mercury News 01/26/01
Sensitive taxpayer data sent to wrong addresses
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/taxgoof26.htm

by Deborah Lohse
A mailing error by the Internal Revenue Service caused an unknown number of
taxpayers, including many in the Bay Area, to receive tax documents that
don't belong to them, raising fears that the information could be used for
identity theft.
The IRS said it doesn't know how many taxpayers were affected, saying the
agency has heard from ``a handful'' of small-business owners, investors or
others who pay quarterly estimated tax payments from California, Arizona and
Massachusetts. The taxpayers found that when they got the documents they need
to pay their quarterly tax bills this year, at least one of the four vouchers
contained personal information of someone else.



Federal Computer Week 01/22/01
Maintaining a sense of history
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0122/mgt-nara-01-22-01.asp

by William Matthews
As the old administration makes way for the new, what happens to information
posted online? Just as reports, correspondence and hearing transcripts are
regularly archived to provide future generations insight into the workings of
contemporary government, Web sites also are being preserved for posterity.
The Government Printing Office is adding the Web site of the National
Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) to its growing collection of Web
sites operated by now-defunct federal commissions and task forces.


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

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