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Far Eastern Economic Review 7/19/01
>From now to eternity
http://www.feer.com/_0107_19/p037innov.html

by Kim Jung Min
SOUTH KOREANS ARE trying to stretch American pop artist Andy Warhol's
pronouncement--that every person alive will have 15 minutes of fame--to an
eternity, at least in cyberspace.
Click on to the Korean-language Web site www.hooz.com and you can view
videoclips about ordinary Koreans who want to be remembered by their loved
ones and share their life stories with strangers.


San Jose Mercury News 7/15/01
102 year-old time capsule is unearthed at Stanford
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/capsule15.htm

by Anne Rochell Konigsmark
It isn't Al Capone's vault, but folks around Stanford University are very
curious about the contents of a time capsule recently found on a campus
construction site.
The dented copper container, about the size of a shoe box, was buried under
Stanford's original library on Nov. 2, 1898, by the school's co-founder,
Jane Stanford. It is now in the hands of university archivist Margaret
Kimball, who also knows what's inside the box, thanks to documentation she
found in Jane Stanford's archived papers. But Kimball's not telling.


Denver Post 7/15/01
Rains soak records at Greeley City Hall
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E68610,00.html

by Allison Sherry and Justin Juozapavicius
Sunday, July 15, 2001 - GREELEY - City officials spent Saturday peeling
apart reams of documents more than 100 years old that were severely damaged
in a torrent that spilled into City Hall's basement.
The city was pounded by 5 inches of rain late Friday, and water seeped into
the basement despite a late effort to line the building with sandbags.
Damage could cost the city tens of thousands of dollars, said Troy Dart,
Greeley's mechanical control technician.


Indianopolis Star 7/8/01
Dogged reporter hit pay dirt
http://www.starnews.com/print/articles/ted08.html

by Ted Daniels
After the Indiana General Assembly adjourned in late April, Statehouse
reporter Michele McNeil Solida was assigned to write a story about Build
Indiana Fund projects included in the just-approved 2001 state budget.
That story finally appears on today's front page.
But the research and reporting from that initial assignment already have
resulted in the governor halting the spending of the 2001 funds and led
several agencies, including the FBI, to begin investigations.


The Virginian-Pilot 7/12/01
PETA file motion involving documents destroyed at museum
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0712fil.html

by Jason Skogg
VIRGINIA BEACH -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals on Wednesday
filed a motion asking a judge to determine whether the Virginia Marine
Science Museum violated a court agreement by destroying documents in the
days after the city agreed to turn over information on a controversial
dolphin exhibit proposal.


Las Vegas Sun 7/12/01
FEC to release fund-raising records
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-other/2001/jul/12/071207533.htm
l

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) - Documents from a federal inquiry into campaign activities
coordinated by the Democratic National Committee and AFL-CIO will be
released despite objections by the DNC and the union.
The Federal Election Commission voted 4-0 in closed session Tuesday to
reopen to public inspection roughly 6,000 pages of records from its
investigation.


The Moscow Times 7/16/01
Tax police could be allowed to examine auditors' records
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2001/07/16/043.html

by Natalya Neimysheva Vedomosti
Auditors could be obliged to divulge clients' commercial secrets under a
draft law making its way through the State Duma.
The new law on auditor activity, which the Duma approved in its second
reading last Wednesday, would in some cases require auditors to hand over a
client's financial documents to tax police or investigating bodies.
The draft law has still to pass its third and final reading. However, since
the third reading is largely concerned with editorial corrections, the only
real threat to the law is by presidential veto.


Seattle Times 7/12/01
Did you toss your privacy in the trash?
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?s
lug=erik12&date=20010712

by Erik Lacitis
OK, here is the excuse part. Shortly I'll excerpt from a little test that
can give you that excuse for not dealing with that bunch of notices you got
in the mail.
If you live in a typical American household, in the past few months you
received between 10 to 20 of these notices. Over a billion were sent
nationwide, notices that by the third or fourth sentence sent you into a
stupor.


The Tennessean 7/15/01
Retired professor donating life's collection of epic books
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/06572717.shtml?Element_ID=657
2717

by Jill Thomas
Cookeville Herald-Citizen
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - The packed bookshelves that line three walls of Nolan
Fowler's den will soon be empty.
His collection, which took more than 50 years to accumulate, will be moved
to the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
''All my babies will be gone,'' said Fowler, 88.


The Missoulian 7/15/01
Livestock Department accused of allegedly denying groups access to public
records
http://www.missoulian.com/display/inn_news/news18.txt

by Ericka Schenck Smith
HELENA - Members of three environmental groups have accused the Montana
Department of Livestock of illegally denying them access to public records.
The department dismisses the allegations.



Washington Post 7/12/01
Court papers, lost during Civil War, show up on eBay
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49406-2001Jul11.html

by Josh White and Lisa Rein
When Union troops raided the Brentsville Courthouse during their occupation
of Prince William County in 1863, they made off with batches of court papers
from the Revolutionary War era as part of their spoils.
The vital records -- including oaths of soldiers, certificates of birth and
death and deeds of property and business ownership -- tore a hole in the
county's history and were considered lost forever.
But in a fortunate juxtaposition of the past and the future, many of the
papers -- written in ornate calligraphy and dated to May 1779 -- recently
began to appear on the eBay Web site nearly 150 years after they were lost.

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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