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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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