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RAIN 04/01: Weekend Update



Earthvision.net 3/27/01
Watchdog group posts 50 years of internal chemical industry documents on 
Internet
http://www.earthvision.net/ColdFusion/News_Page1.cfm?NewsID=15439

EarthVision Environmental News
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2001 - A nonprofit environmental research group known 
for its hard-hitting computer investigations has today posted a vast trove of 
internal chemical industry documents on the Internet. 
The Environmental Working Group (EWG.org) will launch the website - the 
Chemical Industry Archives - with an initial collection of more than 35,000 
pages of chemical industry insider documents spanning five decades. The 
collection is subtitled, "The documents America's chemical companies thought 
you'd never read." 



Bergen Record 3/30/01
Sunshine law compromise reached
http://www.bergen.com/region/accessjc200103306.htm

by John Cichowski
TRENTON -- After weeks of bickering, New Jersey's leading press and victims' 
rights groups agreed Thursday to find a way to provide public access to 
government records without violating the privacy of crime victims. 
Following meetings outside state Senate chambers, representatives of the New 
Jersey Press Association and the New Jersey Victims Rights Law Center said 
they would draft suitable language that would allow the state's 37-year-old 
Open Public Records Act to be improved. 



Star Tribune 3/30/01
Coming this year: A museum worthy of ham called Spam
http://startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=metro_a_cache&slug

=tcj30

by Chuck Haga
AUSTIN, MINN. -- The new specialized museum opening here later this year will 
have a 45-seat movie theater, a gift shop, a cafe ("Want some canned luncheon 
meat with that?") and interactive displays.
It will have 20,000 square feet of space inside and sculpted grounds outside, 
crested by a bronze statue of noble figures: two giant pigs followed by a 
farmer carrying a prod and a bucket of feed corn.
And it all will be devoted to Spam -- not computer junk mail, but the 
luncheon meat that won World War II.



Hannibal Courier-Post 3/30/01
State supreme court is hosting judicial history exhibit
http://www.hannibal.net/stories/033001/com_0330010007.html

JEFFERSON CITY ­ As visitors enter the Supreme Court this spring, they will 
see a different kind of verdict: "The Verdict of History." The "Verdict of 
History" is an exhibit that examines Missouri's judicial record, on loan to 
the court from the Missouri State Archives for a limited time. 
Supreme Court Archivist Joe Benson procured the exhibit and planned its 
rotating display. The current display includes eight of the exhibit's 53 
panels. 



Newsfactor.com 3/30/01
IBM Holocaust lawsuit dropped
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/8596.html

by Robyn Weisman
The lead attorney for five plaintiffs who last month sued IBM (NYSE: IBM) for 
"knowingly suppl[ying] technology used to catalog death camp victims and 
aid[ing] in [their] persecution, suffering, and genocide" has agreed to drop 
the case. 
Michael D. Hausfeld, the plaintiff's attorney, told news sources Thursday 
that the case would be dropped so that his clients, all Holocaust survivors, 
would be able to collect from the compensation fund jointly established by 
the German government and German businesses. 




Los Angeles Times 3/30/01
Mexican report contradicts claims '40s war workers weren't paid
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010330/t000027318.html

by Rich Connell and Robert J. Lopez
Most of the millions of dollars deducted as savings from the paychecks of 
Mexican laborers who came to the United States during the 1940s was later 
repaid, according to Mexican government records that contradict key 
assertions of a growing reparations movement. 
Thousands of surviving migrants on both sides of the border contend they were 
cheated out of money that they earned toiling in fields and rail yards to 
replace U.S. workers drafted in World War II. As an incentive for their 
return to Mexico, under the agreement between the two nations, 10% of each 
worker's wages was deducted from the migrant's paychecks to be forwarded to a 
Mexican bank. 




National Post 3/30/01
Napoleonic 1814 treaty relieved
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/world/story.html?f=/stories/20010330/517017.h

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Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - John William Rooney and Marshall Lawrence Pierce III are 
no ordinary thieves, according to a U.S. indictment.
While most crooks make off with jewels or cash, Mr. Rooney and Mr. Pierce, 
both of whom have PhDs, face charges of stealing the 1814 Treaty of 
Fontainebleau, in which Napoleon renounced his claim to the French empire and 
was sent to exile on the island of Elba.
The treaty disappeared 12 years ago from the French National Archives in 
Paris, but police only caught on to the two men when Mr. Pierce, who also 
uses the name Frederick Tomcezak, allegedly tried to auction it off through 
Sotheby's.




New York Times 3/30/01
Movie industry frowns on Professor's software gallery
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/30/technology/30CYBERLAW.html

by David F. Gallagher
Prof. David S. Touretzky, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, 
says he has never watched a movie on DVD, much less copied one illegally. So 
why is the movie industry calling him a pirate? 
The answer can be found on a university site which houses an unusual Web 
project launched by Professor Touretzky - a project which has turned him into 
something of a celebrity in Internet legal circles. His site is a gallery 
devoted to representations of a piece of software that has been deemed 
illegal because it can be used to break through the copy-protection system on 
DVD movies. 




Nando Times 3/30/01
Princeton unseals Lindbergh manuscripts
http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500468937-500717436-503989041-

0,00.html

by Linda A. Johnson
Associated Press
PRINCETON, N.J. (March 30, 2001 11:19 a.m. EST) - Princeton University has 
unsealed controversial manuscripts written by Charles and Anne Lindbergh on 
the eve of World War II and thousands of letters in response to them. 
The documents included drafts of a magazine article by Charles Lindbergh and 
a book by Anne Lindbergh, both advocating that the United States stay out of 
World War II. 



Reuters 3/30/01
Marriott faces suit over Puerto Rico luxury hotel
http://news.excite.com/news/r/010330/15/leisure-marriott

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Green Isle Partners sued Marriott International Inc. 
Friday, accusing the hotel operator of breaching contracts, falsifying 
records and using kickback schemes to defraud it while running Green Isle's 
luxury hotel and spa in Puerto Rico. 
Green Isle, which seeks at least $420 million in damages, alleged in court 
papers filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware that Marriott, its high-end 
Ritz Carlton chain and other affiliates cost it money by forcing its hotel to 
buy from their vendors, making fake entries in its books and inducing it to 
accept a $22 million loan from a Marriott unit. 




The Advocate 3/31/01
Archives get Civil War era papers NSU
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=20396

THIBODAUX -- A Donaldsonville resident and Nicholls State University alumnus 
has donated 85 Civil War-era newspapers to the NSU Archives in Ellender 
Memorial Library




Ottawa Citizen 3/31/01
Hydro papers on severance 'lost' in shuffle
City and utility each say other has documents
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/city/010331/5009963.html

by Ken Gray
Numerous important and sensitive documents concerning the Ottawa transition 
board's creation of Hydro Ottawa are missing from the City of Ottawa's 
archives. 
"Personal and confidential" board papers on Hydro are in the utility's hands 
while general documents are stored at the city, said municipal 
freedom-of-information officer Shane Kennedy. 




Tampa Tribune 3/31/01
Local historian documents details of West Tampa's past
http://www.tampatrib.com/News/MGAZUQ1MYKC.html

by Janis D. Froelich
As a local historian, Arsenio Sanchez is a stickler for detail. So it's not 
good enough for him to recall his University of Florida graduation as 
``1951.'' 
With his wife, Mary, cooking a pot of lentils on a recent morning, Sanchez 
gets up from the sofa in the adjoining living room to quickly sort through 
boxes on his back porch. 
He emerges with a typed account of his life and zeros in on his diploma day: 
July 18, 1951. 




The Guardian 3/31/01
Archives lost as arson wrecks ballet's temporary HQ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,466159,00.html

by Martin Wainwright
Arsonists have wrecked the headquarters of one of Britain's leading ballet 
companies in a blaze which destroyed historic archives and left thousand of 
pounds' worth of costumes soaked and smoke-damaged. 
Petty thieves are suspected of setting alight the former school in Leeds 
which is housing the Northern Ballet Theatre temporarily until a £6m new base 
in the city's arts quarter is finished in two years. Hundreds of letters - 
some from past performers, critics and the ballet's late director, 
Christopher Gable - have been lost, along with contracts and other details 
for forthcoming productions and tours. 




Chicago Sun-Times 4/01/01
The library that never was
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/jesse01.html

by Tim Novack and Chuck Neubauer
When Operation PUSH officials were planning to open the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson 
Civil Rights Library in 1993, they received help from the state 
librarian--then-Secretary of State George Ryan. 
But after eight years and $52,779 in state grants, the Jackson library is 
still just a dream. 
"It was so disorganized," said Alice Calabrese, executive director of the 
Chicago Library System, a state-funded agency that oversaw three grants Ryan 
gave PUSH between 1993 and 1997. 
"There's no librarian," she said. "We haven't heard anything in three or four 
years. I'm still waiting for them to come back. I think part of the problem 
is that it was going to cost a lot of money . . . and the state wasn't going 
to do that." 




Los Angeles Times 04/01/01
Abe Lincoln and the truth get mugged at the click of a mouse
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/20010401/t000027814.html

by Doris Kearns Goodwin
At St. Joseph, Mo., in the spring of 1861, the young rider for the Pony 
Express tucked a copy of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address into his 
saddlebag and began the journey that transmitted the new president's words to 
Sacramento, Calif., in a record time of seven days and 17 hours. In little 
more than a week, the entire country could read of Lincoln's hope of averting 
war and his belief that in time, the "mystic chords of memory" would heal the 
country's widening divisions. 



Web Techniques April 2001
Making your mark
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/04/wudowsky/

by Claire L. Wudowsky
I received an email a few days ago about developing a domain name acquisition 
strategy. The author indicated that I should choose a word that describes my 
business or product and then register this word and all its misspellings. 
This procedure is fine if a company wants a domain name that's merely an 
online address; however, the method is quite shortsighted if a company also 
wants its domain name to be its identifying trademark or brand name. Dot-com 
companies, like their brick and mortar counterparts, must plan for the long 
term if their businesses are to thrive and prosper. Adopting and maintaining 
strong trademarks or brand names should be part of this long-term plan.




New York Times 04/01/01
Papers sue for autopsy photos
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/national/01EARN.html

Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 31 - Two Florida newspapers have sued officials in 
Broward County, saying that a new state law that bans the release of autopsy 
photographs violates First Amendment guarantees and state law.
The suit, which was filed on Friday, came a day after Gov. Jeb Bush signed 
the bill into law. The law grew out of pressure brought by Teresa Earnhardt, 
the widow of the race car driver Dale Earnhardt, who died on Feb. 18 in a 
final-lap crash at the Daytona 500.



Pioneer-Planet 04/01/01
Your permanent record
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/tod/news/docs/037016.htm

by Kristina Torres
It's the ultimate threat, what true believers think principals have tattooed 
on those biceps toned by years of paper-lifting: 
``This will go on your permanent record.'' 
Ooh, mama. The ``this'' in this utterance is never good. But what, exactly, 
is a permanent record, who sees it and how long can it haunt you? 
``There is very little that is defined as `permanent,' '' assures Steve 
Schellenberg, director of compliance for the St. Paul school district, as he 
reels off a list that includes attendance records, graduation date and high 
school grades (doh!). ``And it may be a permanent record, but it still is a 
private record.'' 




Web Techniques April 2001
Protecting your digital valuables
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/04/stratrevu/

by Bill Pitzer
As companies continue to build their Web presence, they're realizing the 
importance of their digital assets. These assets-such as photos, marketing 
collateral, Word documents, and multimedia files-are traditionally associated 
with companies that deal specifically in print or other media, but 
organizations in other sectors are beginning to see the value of properly 
managing these files. Not only must internal users be able to quickly access 
various media, it's critical to properly safeguard this valuable intellectual 
property. 




Biloxi Sun-Herald 04/01/01
Auditor to examine supervisor's $1M escrow account
http://web.sunherald.com/content/biloxi/2001/04/01/pageone/3853747_04012001.ht
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by Patrick Peterson and Geoff Pender
State Auditor Phil Bryant says he will further investigate the $1 
million-a-year "escrow account" operated by the Harrison County Board of 
Supervisors. 
Bryant also has asked Attorney General Mike Moore for an opinion on whether 
the account is legal. 
Bryant said he will investigate whether supervisors are abiding by state 
"unit system" and other laws that require supervisors to act and spend tax 
money as a board and not run their voting districts like mini-governments. 
Individual supervisors are prohibited from direct day-to-day control of 
purchases, projects and workers. 




Boston Globe 3/31/01
Belongings, including dirty socks, of 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman on display 
at Uconn
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/090/region/Belongings_including_dirty_soc:.sht

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Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Nearly 100 pieces of memorabilia, documents even 
unwashed socks that belonged to 1960s activist Abbie Hoffman will be 
displayed beginning Sunday at the University of Connecticut. 
The items, including declassified FBI documents related to his arrest at the 
violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, will be exhibited 
through May 25. 




CNET News.com 04/01/01
Hackers say corporate security still poor
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5383459.html

by Robert Lemos
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--Companies are paying more attention to 
safeguarding their digital assets, but the overall state of corporate data 
security is still poor, said hackers and security experts attending the 
CanSecWest conference on Thursday. 
The conference--whose speakers include creators of major open-source security 
tools as well as security specialists--has brought together not theorists but 
the software mechanics who create and break network security for a living. 


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

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