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RAIN 5/13: Weekend Update Part 3



E&P Online 5/08/01
New laws restrict e-records from press
Newspapers battle for open access to records
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/050801n1.htm

by Todd Shields
Last fall, a public schools superintendent in Fishers, Ind., abruptly 
resigned after just 11 weeks on the job. It turned out he had used a school 
computer to visit sexually explicit sites. Indiana newspapers reported the 
transgression. 
The Indianapolis Star followed with a February story surveying Internet usage 
by school superintendents statewide. It found they used school computers for 
such nonscholastic tasks as shopping for cars and seeking jobs. The Page One 
piece named names, too. 



Sacramento Bee 5/13/01
Bills seek to expose defective products: Supporters say court settlements 
should be public knowledge.
http://www.capitolalert.com/news/capalert04_20010513.html

by Aurelio Rojas
Steve and Betsy Terraszas were almost home, fresh from a vacation last summer 
in South Lake Tahoe with their 3-year-old son, when their lives were shredded 
on Interstate 80 west of Davis. 
Suddenly, the right rear tire on the Vacaville family's utility vehicle 
disintegrated. Steve Terraszas lost control of the vehicle, which rolled over 
three times, killing the boy and seriously injuring his mother. 



Dallas Morning News 5/13/01
Believing in Fate
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/366103_fatefolks_13me.html

by Michael E. Young
FATE - The stark black-and-white photos they've gathered provide a peek into 
the past of this little farming town. But for a broad look back in full 
living color, just get the Fate Girls talking. 
The grainy image of the old Fate School seems to sparkle when Dorothy Harris 
recalls how excited everyone was when the school installed four drinking 
fountains - two for the boys, two for the girls - its first experiment with 
indoor plumbing. 



Associated Press 5/9/01
Film archive works to save movies
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010509/en/wkd_belgium_film_archive_1.html

by Paul Geitner
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - It's a long way from the glamour of Hollywood to the 
seedy streets and dilapidated buildings around Brussels' Midi train station. 
Yet movie magic is being made here or, more precisely, restored. 
In a plain, worn workshop hidden behind low-rent apartments and storefronts, 
Noel Desmet, head of the Royal Belgian Film Archive's restoration department, 
moves frame by frame through ``John Petticoats,'' a 1919 silent western, 
touching up here, inserting missing bits there. 



New York Daily News 5/13/01
Blacks uncover long-lost slave kin on cd-rom
http://www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-13/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-110965.asp

by Derek Rose
Richard Burbridge has spent much of his retirement traveling to faraway 
places to pore over musty documents in a quest to learn more about his 
ancestors.
He knows that his great-grandfather Thomas Burbridge was a slave who was 
enlisted by his owner into the U.S. Colored Troops at Camp Nelson, Ky., on 
July 4, 1864, at age 22.



The Australian 5/14/01
Privacy push opens files to patients
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,1996299%255E2,00.html

by Sarah Stock
EVERYONE will have the right to demand access to their medical records, 
including doctors' written opinions, and to correct inaccuracies under draft 
rules for new privacy laws released today.

Health consumers will also be able to exert more control over who their 
personal health information is relayed to, and to what extent, with informed 
consent required for commercial and even some doctor-to-doctor disclosure. 



New York Times 5/13/01
A Persian Pioneer in a Western Art
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/arts/13REXE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Lyle Rexer
Shah or desert chieftain, tourist or native, the place to have your 
photograph taken in Tehran at the end of the 19th century was the studio of 
Antoin Sevruguin. His business imprint was decorated in Farsi, French and 
Russian, and it bore the sign of the Persian imperial order, the Shah's stamp 
of approval. And should the customers have any doubt about the studio's 
expertise, the imprint also displayed images of photography's three 
distinctly un-Oriental originators: William Henry Fox Talbot, Nicéphore 
Nièpce and Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre. The sign captures the polyglot 
character and the diverse clientele of Persia's first master photographer, 
who deserves a place among the pioneers he so revered.



New York Times 5/13/01
What happened to the McVeigh Evidence?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/national/13EXEC.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Neil A. Lewis and David Johnston
Washington, May 12 -- The discovery of thousands of pages of undisclosed 
evidence in the Timothy J. McVeigh case had its origins in the closing days 
of last year, in what one law enforcement official this weekend described as 
a routine effort to "have a final cleanup." 
By this week, senior officials say, they had realized for the first time that 
there were 3,135 pages connected with "OKBOMB," as the Oklahoma City bombing 
case was known to insiders, that had never been turned over to Mr. McVeigh's 
lawyers. 



Boston Herald 5/13/01
Putting court records online draws mixed reaction
http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/court05132001.htm

Association Press
BOSTON - Sameer Abu-Alsaoud expects he'll spend hours in Suffolk Superior 
Court as he pores through files in a clerk's office to prepare a 
discrimination lawsuit against his employer. 
It's tedious work, but it's the only way to look for other possible claims 
against his employer. 
That could change, soon. 
If recommendations drafted by a committee of the Supreme Judicial Court are 
adopted, Abu-Alsaoud could find the records he wants with just a few clicks 
of the mouse on his home computer. 



Dallas Morning News 5/13/01
DeGoyler Library director keeps picking up bits and pieces of history
http://www.dallasnews.com/highprofile/365445_farmer_13liv.A.html

by Bill Marvel
Old postcards with forgotten messages, long out-of-date timetables, tattered 
maps and faded snapshots and books nobody reads anymore: It's the kind of 
stuff most of us would throw away with never a second thought. 
Not David Farmer. Director of the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist 
University, Dr. Farmer possibly never met a scrap of paper he didn't like. He 
has spent the last 15 years of his career pursuing just such here-today, 
gone-tomorrow material - "ephemera" in the language of archivists and 
librarians - prowling dusty antique stores and bookshops, scanning dealers' 
lists, scrolling eBay. 


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

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