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Daily Yomiuri 04/03/01
Supreme Court allows disclosure of some files
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010403wo33.htm

The Supreme Court has decided to only disclose on request documents on
personnel and budgetary information at all the nation's courts in line with
the enforcement of the Freedom of Information Law, which allows people to
demand disclosure of the central government's administrative documents.
Courts began accepting information-disclosure requests on Monday.


Daily Yomiuri 04/03/01
Many seek information under disclosure law
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010403wo31.htm

Government offices Monday started accepting information-disclosure requests
following Sunday's enforcement of the Freedom of Information Law, which is
meant to increase government transparency by preventing bureaucratic
monopolization of information.


Boston Globe 04/02/01
Bank records breathe life into history of freed slaves
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/092/wash/Bank_records_breathe_life_into:.sht
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by Darlene Superville
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) A young boy is stolen away from Africa, sold into slavery,
left to fend for himself after winning his freedom in the Civil War.
Buried in the 1870 bank record for 20-year-old George Thompson is much more
than the dry stuff of deposits, withdrawals, dollars and cents.
His life story unfolds in a new collection of records from the Freedman's
Bank that offers glimpses into a period in America's history when blacks
moved from slavery to citizenship.



Mobile Register 4/2/01
Colony records sent Virginia for preservation
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/?Apr2001/2-a400724a.html

by Lori Moore
FAIRHOPE - Rapid deterioration is the main reason records, letters and
documents of the Fairhope's Single Tax Corp. the group that is carrying on
the philosophy of the Eastern Shore town's founders have made their way to
the University of Virginia to be archived and preserved.
Not only is the paperwork itself deteriorating, Single Tax leaders said, but
so is the financial health of Alabama's colleges and universities.



Nando Times 4/2/01
Gay Activist, Yale end dispute over gay and lesbian studies program
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500469936-500719362-504008805-0,0
0.html

by Donna Scarponi
Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (April 2, 2001 7:32 p.m. EDT) - Gay activist Larry Kramer,
ending his dispute with Yale University, agreed to donate some of his papers
to the school while his brother decided to donate $1 million toward gay and
lesbian studies at their alma mater.
Four years ago, Kramer accused Yale of homophobia after it rejected his plan
for a gay studies program as too narrow a focus for a permanent
professorship. Writer Calvin Trillin, a classmate of Kramer's, helped work
out the reconciliation.



The Ledger 4/3/01
Doctor fined for bad records
http://www.theledger.com/local/local/01med.htm

by Robin Williams Adams
JACKSONVILLE -- The Florida Board of Medicine on Saturday imposed a $1,000
fine on Dr. Martha Pilapil, a retired Bartow obstetrician-gynecologist, for
keeping incomplete records on her treatment of a woman who came to her about
irregular bleeding and later was diagnosed with cervical cancer by another
doctor.
If she decides to return to practice, she also will be on three years of
probation, the board said.



Honolulu Star-Bulletin 3/31/01
Memos marshaled in suit against DOE
http://www.starbulletin.com/2001/03/31/news/story15.html

by Lisa Asato
The former personnel director for the state Department of Education has new
evidence on his side in a lawsuit against the department.
He alleges he was removed from his job after objecting to schools
Superintendent Paul LeMahieu's use of expanded powers to improve
special-education services.



New York Times 4/2/01
National Archive spotlights events
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Washington-Yesterday.html?search
pv=aponline

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP)-- Harry Truman heard the rustlings of White House ghosts.
Mary Lincoln went on a shopping spree. John Wayne tried to give American
spies the benefit of his combat experience on the big screen.
That unlikely trio of lives and events gets a documentary moment in papers
gleaned recently from the stacks of the National Archives. They're on
display in the Archives rotunda, just feet from the Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence.




New York Times 4/2/01
Patents: Patent Application on Web sends inventor to the drawing board
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/02/technology/02PATE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Sabra Chartrand
It might seem only a modest modification to a Web site. But it represents
one of the most radical changes in United States patent law in a century.
A few weeks ago, the Patent and Trademark Office altered its Web page
devoted to searching the patent database to make way for new links that
permit searches of patent applications that are published 18 months after
filing. So far, only 84 applications have been published, but the
significance is much greater.



Pantagraph.com 4/1/01
Police struggle to find space
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/news0401-04.html

by Steve Silverman
Livingston County is running out of room for contraband.
The police evidence room, located at the 135-year-old jail, is brimming with
guns, drugs, stolen property and various other items from criminal
investigations. With a new law requiring evidence to be preserved for longer
periods of time -- sometimes permanently -- Livingston County Sheriff Marvin
Rutledge is concerned that space will be exhausted.




Chicago Tribune 4/3/01
Critical bank papers to Milosevic to scam
Board records could bolster corruption probe
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0104030208,00.htm
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by Tom Hundley
BELGRADE She called herself "Mother Dafina" and she guaranteed a glittering
monthly interest rate of 15 percent.
The credulous lined up by the thousands to invest their money in her
Dafiment Bank. In less than a year, nearly every town in Serbia had a
branch. With admiring news stories about how she was using her fortune to
buy medical equipment for hospitals and orphanages, state-run television
burnished her image as a kind Mother Teresa with a golden touch.
It was, of course, just another pyramid scam, one of many that swept
post-communist Eastern Europe in the 1990s. When Dafiment Bank collapsed in
1993 and Dafina Milanovic fled the country, the bank had bilked depositors
of about $650 million.
But there's a twist to the story. A box of documents found in the vaults of
the Yugoslav Central Bank last week indicate that the person pulling the
strings behind the scam was former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic,
who now resides in Belgrade's Central Prison.



Topeka Capital-Journal 4/3/01
CURB's fight to see Western records heats up
http://cjonline.com/stories/040301/bus_western.shtml

by Jim McLean
The battle between consumer advocates and Western Resources over access to
potentially sensitive business records intensified Monday.
Walker Hendrix, chief attorney for the Citizens Utility Ratepayers Board, a
small state consumer agency, charged that records detailing Western's use of
corporate jets and compensation paid to its top executives may contain
evidence of mismanagement.




Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 4/3/01
Court details require privacy, clerk says
State considers making more records available on Internet
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/apr01/net03040201.asp

by Tom Kertscher
Hoping to head off a potential privacy problem, the court clerk in Milwaukee
County has ordered his staff to protect the names of jurors and crime
victims so that they won't one day end up on the Internet.
John Barrett concedes that his move may only stave off the problem
temporarily because the trend is to make more and more public records
retrievable by via the Internet.




Newsday 4/3/01
Official blast planned move of documents
http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/tuesday/nd7553.htm

by Dionne Searcey and Irving Long
Nassau County Clerk Karen Murphy urged officials yesterday to scrap plans
for transferring thousands of archived court documents to a new warehouse to
avoid extra costs and the risk of damaging the decades-old papers.



New York Times 3/29/01
A comeback for writing, but not necessarily for eloquence
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/technology/29CIR-WRIT.html

by Bonnie Rothman Morris
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/technology/29CIR-WRIT.html
FOR all the cultural upheavals being wrought by new technology, the spread
of writing may be one of the biggest. Everybody, it seems, is writing these
days.
The catalyst is e-mail messages and Web chat. In electronic messages and
conversations, millions of people who thought that after their schooling
ended they would never have to worry about a semicolon again are spending
time, lots of it, writing.



New York Times 4/2/01
E-commerce: Borders returning to the Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/02/technology/02ECOMMERCE.html

by Bob Tedeschi
FOR years, Internet marketers and retailers have been on a quest for
so-called one-to-one marketing. That is, they want to know consumers so well
that they can pitch the right product to a person the instant he shows up at
a specific Web site. But that pursuit has devolved into a bushwhacking trek
for executives, who are either knee-deep in customer data that they cannot
process quickly, or are unable to find critical bits of information.





New York Times 3/29/01
Putting your John Hancock onto scribble e-mail notes
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/29/technology/29GEE3.html

by Ian Austen
Ilya Schiller, president of Digital Ink, likes to call the n-scribe wireless
pen "probably the only electronic device with no button." That makes it, Mr.
Schiller said, the easiest system to use for scrawling out messages, even on
ordinary paper, and sending them off as e-mail notes. The catch is that a
message will arrive at its destination as an image of the original pen
scrawl rather than as tidy computer text.




Poughkeepsie Journal 3/31/01
View rare manuscripts at Newburgh museum
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/saturday/lifeentertainment/stories/li0331
01s2.shtml

by Lee Park
One of the four remaining manuscripts of the original Magna Carta, John
Hancock's cover letter of the Declaration of Independence and Copernicus'
Solar System will be residing in Newburgh for the next few months for anyone
to see.
The Karpeles Manuscript Library in Newburgh is presenting "The Millennium:
The Most Significant Events of the Past 1000 Years" today through June 30.
The California-based Karpeles Manuscript Library was founded in 1983 by
David and Marsha Karpeles to preserve original manuscripts from across the
world that directly relate to significant events in history.

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Information Today April 2001
Reuters releases free news archive
http://www.infotoday.com/it/apr01/news6.htm

Reuters has announced that it is, for the first time, making available free
of charge large quantities of archived Reuters news stories for use by
research communities around the world. The first Reuters Corpus archive
includes over 800,000 English-language news stories, equivalent to Reuters'
annual global news output.
According to the announcement, the Reuters Corpus offers researchers a
unique body of static information upon which to research, test, and
benchmark emerging technologies such as language processing, speech
synthesis, voice recognition, indexation, search, and information retrieval.




Reno Gazette Journal 4/3/01
That's Nevada: Students lead way in creating state symbols
http://www.rgj.com/news2/stories/news/986278100.html

by Jennifer Crowe
Georgia has a state butterfly, Idaho a state horse and Florida a state
marine mammal, a saltwater mammal and a shell.
In relation to what other states have done, proposals in the Nevada
Legislature this year to add a state tartan, state soil, state animal and
state marching song may not seem excessive.



The Star 4/3/01
Ruling offers key to secret cabinet papers
Information commissioner crusaded for change
http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thes
tar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=986182426721&call_page=TS_Canada&call
_pageid=968332188774&call_pagepath=News/Canada&col=968350116467

by Allan Thompson
OTTAWA - Thousands of pages of secret cabinet documents could now be
available to the public after a Federal Court decision yesterday peeled away
a layer of government secrecy.
The court ruled in favour of Information Commissioner John Reid's argument
that federal cabinets have been keeping secret for 17 years a raft of
documents that should have been available to the public all along.




U.S. News 4/9/01
High Tech, Old Papyrus
Recovering the ancients
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010409/scrolls.htm

by Andrew Curry
The people of Herculaneum hardly had a chance. In the early-morning August
darkness of A.D. 79, the rumbling volcano belched a river of mud and ash,
burying the terrified residents and one of the Roman Empire's most luxurious
communities under 75 feet of debris.
Entombed along with the unlucky citizens was one of the empire's premier
philosophy libraries. Ironically, the disaster that buried Herculaneum and
neighboring Pompeii actually preserved the collection of some 1,500 papyrus
scrolls for almost 2,000 years. Badly charred, compressed by tons of rock,
and damaged by water, the fragile scrolls are largely unreadable to the
naked eye. But thanks to space-age technology, classics scholars are finally
getting a look at the long-lost lectures and commentaries.




Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 4/3/01
Editorial: How FOIA affects you
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Tue/edi/wopFellone3.html

by Frank Fellone
A sure cure for insomnia is to write about the Arkansas Freedom of
Information Act.
See, heads are already nodding. Eyelids are drooping.
Look out! Someone grab that feller before he hits the floor. Too late--fast
asleep.
Sorry about that. Freedom of information is one of those topics that exists
in parallel universes. Working newspaper stiffs and other journalists care
about freedom of information. No one else seems to.



Edmonton Journal 4/3/01
Judge rules feds must release more papers
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news1/stories/010403/5025362.html

by Janice Tibbetts
Southam Newspaper; Southam News
The Canadian public could gain insight into the reasons behind federal
cabinet decisions following a court ruling Monday in which Canada's
information commissioner won a bid to pry open files that have been kept
secret.
Federal Court of Canada Justice Edmond Blanchard declared the government
tried to circumvent the will of the Trudeau government of the early 1980s by
refusing to release papers explaining the reasons behind one of cabinet's
environmental decisions.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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