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RAIN 02/18: Weekend Update Part 2



Lehigh Valley News 02/16/01
Parents get records of child agency
Allentown case involving tot's death at hands of baby sitter may set state 
precedent
http://www.mcall.com/html/news/allentwn/b_pg001_e6b1_5wagner6.htm

by Debbie Garlicki
The Morning Call
Parents whose 14-month-old boy died of brain damage at the hands of an 
Allentown baby sitter are entitled to state records of a review of the Lehigh 
County Office of Children and Youth and prior investigations of the baby 
sitter. 
It may be the first time in the state that parents have requested such 
records. 



Savannah Morning News 02/16/01
Governor pushes plan to protect ID information
http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/021601/LOCbarnesbill.shtml

by Doug Goss
ATLANTA -- A law Gov. Roy Barnes proposed Wednesday is aimed at protecting 
the state's employees, and the people who do business with them, from credit 
card and identity fraud. 
But some media groups worry that the legislation could be used to curb the 
public's right to keep an eye on their government. 
The bill, which could be introduced by Barnes' floor leaders in the Senate as 
early as today, would protect Social Security numbers, credit card numbers 
and mothers' maiden names from public records requests. 



Newsday 02/18/01
State may allow doctors to e-mail prescriptions
http://www.newsday.com/ap/regional/ap764.htm

Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - State officials may soon allow physicians to e-mail 
prescriptions to pharmacies. 
The idea is to reduce the number of incorrect prescriptions given to patients 
due to illegible handwriting. Currently, New Jersey law only allows doctors 
to transmit prescriptions on paper, by fax or by telephone. 



The Age 02/19/01
FOI bid on Bracks staff spending denied
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/02/19/FFXAJ2QLBJC.html

by Gabrielle Costa
The Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet has refused an opposition MP 
access to details of Bracks government media advisers' spending on taxis and 
hire cars. 
The freedom of information request was denied despite the MP twice agreeing 
to limit the scope of his application at the request of the department.
Liberal member for Bulleen Nicholas Kotsiras asked for details of taxi and 
hire car expenditure since January 2000 but was told the department would 
have to wade through 720 documents to decide which could be released.



Atlanta Journal Constitution 02/16/01
Miller proposes MLK coin
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/local_news_a3

c84cbae018317b0075.html

Associated Press
A proposed commemorative coin honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would 
help the Library of Congress acquire the civil rights leader's papers, said 
Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), a co-sponsor of the bill. 
The silver coin would be minted throughout 2003, and a surcharge on the 
coin's sale would help the Library of Congress purchase some of King's 
papers. 
Last year, a proposed $20 million congressional purchase of King's archives 
screeched to a halt amid questions about whether the price was too high. 



The Roanoke Times 02/16/01
The latest medical information at your fingertips
The George Harvey Health Information Resource Center at RU provides public 
access to exclusive medical information resources. 
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story107508.html

by Kevin Miller
RADFORD - Want to find more information on a health problem that runs in the 
family or how to handle your child's bed-wetting? Need help finding ways to 
reduce your prescription drug costs? Or do you just have a fancy for reading 
medical journals? 
Kevin Tapp and the staff at Radford University's new George Harvey Health 
Information Resource Center can likely help you out, no matter what your 
medical quest. 
Since opening in October, the Harvey Center, as it is called on campus, has 
seen a steady flow of traffic from students, faculty, as well as family 
members of the university's clinic patients who come to use the medical 
databases, videotapes and computer software available for free in the 
library. 


Nando Times 02/12/01
IBM didn't play role in Auschwitz, historian says
http://www.nandotimes.com/global/story/0,1024,500309302-500496884-503486876-0,

00.html

by Monika Scislowska
Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland (February 12, 2001 6:48 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - 
Poland's leading Holocaust historian said Monday that there was no evidence 
to support the claim that the Nazis used technology made by American 
computer-maker IBM at Auschwitz, although he does believe it was used at 
other concentration camps. 
Franciszek Piper, the Auschwitz museum's historian, said that contrary to a 
claim made by U.S. researcher Edwin Black in a book titled "IBM and the 
Holocaust," punch-card machines made by IBM were not used in the camp. 



Salt Lake Tribune 02/18/01
Attorney General may appeal order to open scandal files
http://www.sltrib.com/02182001/utah/72398.htm

Associated Press
The Utah Attorney General's Office is trying to decide whether to appeal an 
order to open its Olympic scandal files. 
The state Records Committee voted 6-0 on Friday to force disclosure of 
hundreds of pages of newspaper clippings, memos, notes and transcripts of 
interviews on Salt Lake's tainted bid for the 2002 Winter Games. 
While the investigation was idled last August, officials say it was not 
formally closed. 



Salt Lake Tribune 02/18/01
Las Vegas preserves its neon past
http://www.sltrib.com/02182001/travel/71553.htm

by Angie Wagner
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS -- The rust has taken over now, fading the old red and yellow 
casino sign. Broken tubes that had once formed bright beams of neon are 
remnants of an era long past. 
Warped signs and lone letters have languished in this boneyard for years, 
discarded when another generation's casinos were demolished to make way for 
towering new megaresorts. 



Portland Press Herald 02/18/01
Tribes' push to define sovereign rights comes to head
http://www.portland.com/news/state/010218tribes.shtml

by Peter Pochna
The Penobscot Indians had their first contact with Europeans in 1604, when 
French explorer Samuel de Champlain is said to have visited their lands along 
the Penobscot River. The Indians and the people who settled the land that 
became Maine have had trouble getting along ever since. 
The 1700s were marked by wars that pitted the Indians and the settlers 
against each other. In the 1800s, cholera contracted from settlers decimated 
the tribe's population.



Los Angeles Times 02/16/01
Web battle is latest episode in old-time radio serials
One firm is carrying on the fight to enforce copyrights, much to the dismay 
of collectors and Internet users. 
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/20010216/t000013962.html

by Erik Smith
Special to the Times
A little more than two years ago, when the digital music revolution was just 
beginning to take hold, an entrepreneur from Boston had an intriguing idea: 
If everyone else was putting music on the Web, why not old-time radio shows? 
Pete Kenney, or "Boston Pete," as he calls himself on the Internet, created a 
Web site that allowed people to download recordings of old-time radio 
programs, everything from "Gunsmoke" to "The Shadow," and he racked up 
thousands of "hits" a month, winning a loyal following among fans of 
old-style radio drama. He also got an angry e-mail from the country's biggest 
seller of old-time radio programs on cassette--Carl Amari. 



The Korea Herald 02/14/01
Historians unearth secret past of kimchi
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2001/02/14/200102140040.asp

By Choe Yong-shik 
Like the air they breathe, Koreans seldom think about why they eat the kinds 
of kimchi they do. 
But by asking some simple questions about Korea's national dish, one opens 
the door to some fascinating historical and cultural issues. 
For example, kimchi did not originally contain red pepper, and the common 
vegetable used was actually radish rather than cabbage. The most typical 
kimchi variation of today - the fiery salted, fermented cabbage with red 
pepper - is only a century-old invention based on the two imported 
vegetables. 



San Jose Mercury News 02/18/01
Little Paraguay, reluctant to reform, conceals records of its reign of abuse
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/world/docs/paraguay18.htm

by Kevin G. Hall
Mercury News Rio de Janiero Bureau
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay -- In a musty, water-stained office in Paraguay's main 
Justice building, thousands of documents from the darkest days of former 
dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year reign are rotting. 
In most Latin American countries nowadays, such an archive would be 
well-preserved grist for numerous lawsuits brought by a former dictator's 
victims or their survivors. But in Paraguay, ``There has never been the will 
to look back and ask what happened,'' said Alfredo Boccia Paz, an activist 
who is studying the ``Terror Archives.'' 



San Jose Mercury News 02/18/01
Digital photo albums a high-tech way of editing, archiving keepsake images
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/albums18.htm

by Sam Diaz
Photographs are about sharing, right? And photo albums are supposed to help 
organize snapshots for easier sharing. 
But even though our intentions are good, most photos get archived right into 
a cardboard box somewhere in the back of a closet. 
If we're not careful, our digital images will be just as forgotten in a 
folder somewhere on the computer hard drive. 
But it doesn't have to be that way. 





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

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