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Dallas Morning News 02/27/01
New resource aids research into black ancestors
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/297734_roots_27met.AR.html

by Debra Dennis
James Fantroy fancies himself an amateur genealogist.
Two weeks ago, the Dallas City Council member began tracing his family's
history, purchasing books and enlisting his 14-year-old son's help with the
research.
On Monday, Mr. Fantroy got a huge push in tracing his roots when he found one
of his relatives on a CD containing the bank records of Freedman's Savings
and Trust - a federally chartered bank that was established to benefit former
slaves.


Dallas Morning News 02/27/01
Hospital based confidentiality rule on imaginary law
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/297722_doctors_27tex..html

by Doug J. Swanson
At some East Texas hospitals, the management has for five years told
employees that talking to the wrong people is a violation of the law. Trouble
is, it's a non-existent law.
East Texas Medical Center of Tyler has required thousands of workers to sign
a confidentiality agreement that threatened loose talkers with prosecution
under the "Information Practices Act of 1977."



Dallas Morning News 02/27/01
Documents confiscated in Medicaid fraud inquiry
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/297741_eds_27tex.ART.html

by Nancy San Martin
AUSTIN - More than 600 pieces of potential evidence were retrieved from the
offices of the state's Medicaid contractor as part of a Travis County grand
jury fraud inquiry.
The list of confiscated items, made public Monday, included items taken from
Austin-based National Heritage Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Electronic Data
Systems Corp. in Plano.



Discovery Channel 02/27/01
Artwork documents sinking Venice
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20010226/venice.html

by Rossella Lorenzi
Feb. 26, 2001 - Detailed Venetian scenes by the 18th-century painter
Canaletto could provide a new insight into how fast Venice is sinking, an
Italian scientist claims.
While scrutinizing Canaletto's masterpieces, Dario Camuffo, a Padua-based
scientist working for the Italian National Research Council, noticed that
Canaletto's famous "vedute" (views) include the lines of green scum formed by
algae left on canal-side buildings by retreating high tides.
"Canaletto's paintings look tantalizingly real, just like photographs. They
fill gaps in our knowledge: high tides began to be recorded only in 1872,"
says Camuffo.



Newsweek 02/19/01
Is it software? Or spyware?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/529439.asp

by Steven Levy
"There's a revolution going on inside your computer!" gushes Ingrid Torrance,
the inescapable pitchwoman for NBC Internet (NBCi). In this TV ad, one of
several aired relentlessly on the Peacock network for its dot-com cousin, Ms.
T addressed an audience dressed for a business seminar. To their delight, she
demonstrates QuickClick-a program that allows you to mouse-click on "any
word, anywhere" and get information about it. The crowd cheers as if its team
just won a Super Bowl.



New York Times 02/27/01
Records of Freed Slaves Released
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Mormons-Blacks.html

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Mormon Church published records Monday from the
post-Civil War Freedman's Bank for newly freed slaves, making ancestral
records available for as many as 12 million black Americans.
The records have been available for years through the National Archives but
not in organized form. The church, formally the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, spent 11 years, with help from volunteer Utah state
inmates, extracting and linking the 480,000 names contained in the records.



New York Times 02/26/01
Group demands Gestapo files released
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Gestapo-Chief.html

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Congress on Monday was urged to demand the release of
U.S. intelligence files on Gestapo chief Heinrich Mueller to determine if he
was ever in U.S. custody.
``I would like to know if the United States had him and let him go,'' said
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights
group.



New York Times 02/27/01
Health secretary delays medical records protections
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/27/politics/27HEAL.html

by Robert Pear
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - Tommy G. Thompson, the new secretary of health and
human services, said today that he would delay and reconsider rules that
President Bill Clinton issued in late December to protect the privacy of
people's medical records.
Mr. Clinton described the rules as "the most sweeping privacy protections
ever written." They would affect virtually every doctor, patient, hospital,
pharmacy and insurance plan in the country.



New York Times 02/27/01
Media appeals murder records access
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Professor-Deaths.html

by Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- News organizations took their case to Vermont's
highest court Monday after a judge refused to open records that might explain
why authorities have charged two teen-agers with killing two Dartmouth
College professors.
The Associated Press, the Times Argus, the Rutland Herald, WCAX-TV and
WPTZ-TV appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court to reverse the lower court
ruling.
``Once they're judicial records, we say we should have a right to them,''
said AP lawyer Philip White.



New York Times 02/27/01
Mormons release database for blacks searching roots
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/27/nyregion/27MORM.html

by Winnie Hu
The Mormon Church yesterday released a database of 72,000 bank accounts
opened by former slaves and other blacks after the Civil War, records that
could help millions of their descendants trace their roots.
The bank records are significant because they date back to 1865, and few
detailed records of black families are available from that era.



New York Times 02/27/01
Taxpayers pay for lunch at Hooters
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-BRF-Zoo-Expenses.html

Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) -- An audit of the Cincinnati Zoo found employees using
taxpayer money to pay for lunches at Hooters, gifts for visiting dignitaries
and international trips.
The zoo reimbursed taxpayers more than $13,000 after Hamilton County auditors
examined eight months of records during 1999 and 2000 and billed the zoo for
discrepancies.



New York Times 02/27/01
White House logs said to show pre-pardon visits
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/27/politics/27PARD.html

by David Johnston and Don Van Natta Jr
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - Secret Service records show that Denise Rich and Beth
Dozoretz visited the White House on the evening of Jan. 19, a few hours
before Bill Clinton issued a pardon to Marc Rich, lawyers familiar with the
case said today. But associates of the two women disputed the records and
said neither was there.



Pittsburgh Business Times 02/27/01
Cultural Trust records become part of Pitt's Hillman Library
http://pittsburgh.bcentral.com/pittsburgh/stories/2001/02/26/daily9.html

by Patty Tascarella
The University of Pittsburgh's Library System has acquired the archival
records of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Downtown. The records will reside
in the Ford & Harriet Curtis Theatre Collection in the Special Collections
Department of Hillman Library, where they will be accessible to researchers.



Milwaukee Business Journal 02/23/01
Marquette will receive Thompson's archives
http://milwaukee.bcentral.com/milwaukee/stories/2001/02/26/story2.html

by Pete Millard
The third floor of Marquette University's future John P. Raynor S.J. Library
will honor former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson and house his personal
archives related to education reform.
Thompson also will donate to Marquette other personal political papers and
campaign documents covering his 14 years as governor and 20 years as an
Assembly representative.



Dow Jones 02/27/01
Curbs debated as court records go public on net
http://work.com/index.asp?layout=story_ind_news&vertical=Technology&industry=I

nternet+and+Online&doc_id=37794

by Jerry Markon
Wall Street Journal
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- In a comfortable community surrounded by creeks that run
into the Chesapeake Bay, people are accusing their neighbors of doing drugs.
Two residents stand accused of having an affair. A former resident is accused
of stealing money intended for his neighbor's business.



Philadelphia Inquirer 02/27/01
Bush delays Clinton's patient privacy rules
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/02/27/national/PRIVACY27.htm

Reuters
WASHINGTON - In a victory for the health-care industry, the Bush
administration will at least temporarily delay sweeping new regulations
proposed by former President Bill Clinton aimed at protecting the privacy of
patients, officials said yesterday.
One of Clinton's final directives before leaving office, the privacy rules
were due to take effect yesterday. The intent was to give patients greater
control over their medical records and impose stiff new penalties on health
plans, Internet Web sites and others that distribute medical information
without consent.



CNSNews.com 02/27/01
Clinton attorney turns over Presidential Library documents
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200102\POL20010

227e.html

by Melanie Hunter
CNS Evening Editor
David Kendall, attorney for former President Bill Clinton, struck a
compromise Tuesday with Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Reform
Committee to turn in all requested Clinton Presidential Foundation documents
in connection with the Marc Rich pardon.



Atlanta Journal Constitution 02/27/01
Blacks gain cyberlink to ancestry
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_a3b965a

0f0a0f0620044.html

by Mae Gentry
With the click of a mouse, millions of Americans can now do what Alex Haley
did: Find their roots.
An estimated 8 million to 10 million African-Americans have a powerful new
tool in their search for information about their ancestors, thanks to The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.





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

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