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Francisco Chronicle 4/12/01
Oakland historian to retire
Library veteran built top-notch collection
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/12
/MNE195751.DTL

by Chip Johnson
Oakland -- Oakland native Bill Sturm has literally made a career out of
knowing more about his hometown than any single person in this city of
400,000 people.
Just ask him, and he'll tell you.
Oakland has the largest saltwater lake, Lake Merritt, of any city in the
world. It is the only city in the nation whose public school San system has
its own astronomical observatory.
And its Christmas parade ran longer, from 1919 until 1987 (except for war
years), than holiday pageants anywhere in the United States.
When Sturm steps down as director of the Oakland History Room at the main
branch of the Oakland Public Library this summer, he will take the knowledge
accumulated over a 36-year career.


Edmonton Journal 4/12/01
Bank asks RCMP to investigate 'forgery'
Document infers hotel owed money to PM's family firm
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news1/stories/010412/5079587.html

by Jack Aubry and Joan Bryden
The Business Development Bank of Canada has asked the RCMP to investigate a
leaked bank document which allegedly was doctored to falsely indicate that
Jean Chretien was in direct conflict of interest in the Grand-Mere affair.
The document, leaked to the National Post last week, contained financial
records for the Auberge Grand-Mere hotel. It included a footnote saying the
inn's owner still owed money to the prime minister's family holding company
at the same time as Chretien was lobbying the BDC for a loan for the
auberge.
"We have referred the matter to the RCMP on the forged document and its
use," a BDC spokesperson said Wednesday.




Associated Press 4/12/01
Deals and Deal Makers: CP Kelco sues Pharmacia, alleging misinformation in
sale
http://www.al.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?f0074_BC_WS
J--Deals&DealMakers&&news&newsflash-financial

by Steven Lipin
Associated Press
In an unusually bitter dispute over a major acquisition, a newly created
food-gums company sued Pharmacia Corp., alleging its Monsanto unit provided
misinformation in order to complete a $592 million sale of its biogum
division.
The deal, which created a new company called CP Kelco ApS, already has
stirred controversy and problems for investors. It turned sour only weeks
after Kelco was created, when the company disclosed unexpected operating
problems and the junk bonds sold to finance the transaction plummeted.



Edmonton Sun 4/12/01
Banker battles feds in court
http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-04-12-0050.html

by David Gamble
OTTAWA -- Arguing his human rights have been violated, the former president
of a taxpayer-funded bank has gone to court to throw out a search, seize and
destroy warrant used to ransack his house, cottage and office on the
weekend.
The lawyer for Francois Beaudoin, a key figure in the Shawinigate scandal,
filed a motion in Quebec Superior Court yesterday to quash the raid
conducted on court order by his former employer, the Business Development
Bank of Canada.



Boston Globe 4/12/01
Burning to learn
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/102/business/Burning_to_learn%2b.shtml

by Hiawatha Bray
They say the best technologies are the ones that just work, even if you
don't understand how.
Bunk. It's always good to know what the machine's doing. And sometimes,
you've got to know.
That's why I've had so much fun these past six months with my new CD-ROM
recorder. I bought it figuring it wasn't much different from a standard
CD-ROM. A disk goes in blank, and comes out with 700 megabytes of music or
data. And so it does. But there's nothing automatic about it.



Boston Globe 4/12/01
Trash is state treasure
Discarded Declaration seized after rediscovery
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/102/metro/Trash_is_state_treasure+.shtml

by Meadow Rue Merrill
NORTH YARMOUTH, Maine - By any standard, it was a remarkable discovery: an
original copy of the Declaration of Independence, found in a heap of trash
headed for the dump.
When Kaja Veilleux, a local appraiser, found the yellowed document, printed
on handmade paper and still creased from its 1776 hand-delivery, it was
coated with dust, dirt, and bat droppings. The address, handwritten in ink
faded to brown, was unmistakable: Town Minister, North Yarmouth.



Charlotte Observer 4/11/01
Bubbly '76 Reagan note pulled from Helms' stuff
http://www.charlotte.com/partners/news/briefs/news_briefs_1_Apr11.htm

by Peter Wallsten
Charlotte Observer
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- Jesse Helms was a freshman U.S. senator from North Carolina in
1976 when he bucked the Republican Party and helped deliver his state to the
upstart presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan.
"I've never been so delighted in my life," Reagan gushed in a personal note
to Helms, penned in careful blue script.
The 25-year-old letter was unearthed this week by surprised Helms staffers,
who are giving the senator's office its most thorough cleaning in two
decades.



Star Tribune 4/11/01
Carleton College archivist helps Michigan man be a millionaire
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=83963175

Associated Press
FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) -- Carleton College archivist Eric Hillemann helped a
Michigan friend win the largest cash prize in television history Tuesday by
serving as the phone-a-friend on ABC' s " Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
He identified James Agee as the writer who collaborated with photographer
Walker Evans on the book " Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."



New York Times 4/12/01
For the resourceful, Easter Egg Treats
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/12/technology/12EGGS.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Michel Marriott
FOR much of the analog world, the Easter holiday, with its church services,
bunnies and egg hunts, is a few days away. But in the digital world, Easter
eggs never wait for a holiday.
Digital Easter eggs are a class of quirky, sometimes amusing and
occasionally enlightening snippets of code that programmers with too much
time on their hands bury deep in computer programs. Sometimes whole programs
are hidden. For example, the Easter Egg Archive (eeggs.com), a site that
discusses and reveals Easter eggs, notes that a game similar to Spy Hunter,
a classic 1980's video game, is hidden in Microsoft Excel 2000.



Inland Empire 4/12/01
With their heads in the stars
>From Ptolemy to Hubble, `Star Struck' sheds light on an evolution of
thinking about Earth's place in this galaxy and beyond.
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/living/stories/041201/danlewis.shtml

By Jory Farr
The Press-Enterprise
When Galileo Galilei maintained that the Earth was not the center of the
universe, he was summoned to appear before the Pope. The 16th-century
Italian astronomer was found guilty of heresy for believing that the sun,
not the planet Earth, was the center of the solar system. His punishment? He
was locked in his house under guard for the rest of his life for defending
the Copernicus heliocentric model of the universe.
At the Huntington Library's current exhibit "Star Struck: One Thousand Years
of the Art and Science of Astronomy," which runs through May 13, there's a
copy of Copernicus' groundbreaking book, "De Revolutionibus Orbium."



Wall St Journal 4/12/01
CP Kelco sues Pharmacia, Alleging Misinformation by Monsanto Team
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB987023512926362663.htm

by Steven Lipin
In an unusually bitter dispute over a major acquisition, a newly created
food-gums company sued Pharmacia Corp., alleging its Monsanto unit provided
misinformation in order to complete a $592 million sale of its biogum
division.
The deal, which created a new company called CP Kelco ApS, already has
stirred controversy and problems for investors. It turned sour only weeks
after Kelco was created, when the company disclosed unexpected operating
problems and the junk bonds sold to finance the transaction plummeted.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware, provides an inside
look at deal making, through e-mails and other documents that accompany the
legal papers. One of the documents from the Pharmacia side that is cited in
the lawsuit contains a written admonition from an executive that reads: "Not
Shared with Lehman" -- an indication, the lawsuit says, of information
deliberately withheld from the buyers, which were Hercules Inc. and a buyout
fund run by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.





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