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**  Rare books by Charles Darwin destroyed
Rare nineteenth-century plant books and scientific equipment belonging
to
two leading botanists were destroyed in the blaze which raged for more
than
3 hours

**  US veteran to pick up Ray-Bans from wreck
Kessler also recalled that a crate of bourbon had been on board the
plane
and wondered whether it would be still drinkable

**  Ministers may scale down silver sale

**  This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST

**  Barnyard Buddies - November 3 - December 2

**  See America Day

**  Deliberately Concealed Garments
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**  Origins of Resistance Film Screening: Sounds of the Secwepemc
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Edith
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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:09:36 -0500
From:    "Dostie, Arthur" <Arthur.Dostie@STATE.ME.US>
Subject: Re: dogs at work [was Re: service animals and archives]

I have a pet earwig at work.  I call him Jeremiah.

------------------------------

Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:59:50 EST
From:    Peter Kurilecz <PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM>
Subject: RAIN 10/29: Weekend Update Part 1

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There are 15 stories in this posting.

The Scotsman 10/26/01
Historic university hit by =A37m blaze
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=3D118802

by Jeanette Oldham
FOR 100 years the Bower Building stood out as a proud and distinctive
elemen=
t=20
of the Glasgow University skyline.=20
Last night it was in ruins after a fire which caused =A37 million of
damage=20=
and=20
destroyed works by Charles Darwin valued at more than =A32 million.=20
The blaze, which broke out on the top floor destroyed dozens of rare
books=20
and manuscripts.=20


The Times 10/26/01
Darwin papers lost in blaze
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001372249,00.html

by Gillian Harris
Scotland Correspondent
AN investigation began yesterday into the cause of a fire which caused
more=20
than =A38 million worth of damage and destroyed irreplacable works by
Charle=
s=20
Darwin when it ripped through a historic University of Glasgow
building.=20



Asahi Shimbun 10/25/01
Bill labels research a defense secret
http://www.asahi.com/english/politics/K2001102500317.html

Defense research projects-including war simulations-will fall under
the=20
category of national secrets, according to a bill aimed at imprisoning
those=
=20
who leak such information.
People who disclose information about defense projects or abet in such
leaks=
=20
face a maximum five-year prison term, Shingo Shuto, director-general of
the=20
Bureau of Defense Policy at the Defense Agency, said in an interview
with Th=
e=20
Asahi Shimbun.



Clayton County News-Daily 10/26/01
Officials: State archives should be boost economy
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D2552603&BRD=3D1099&PAG=3D461
&
dept_id=3D99012&rfi=3D6

by Justin Reedy
Clayton County will soon be home to every historical document in the
history=
=20
of Georgia.
On Thursday the Clayton County Development Authority approved a $40
million=20
bond that will fund the state Department of Archives and History to be
built=
=20
in Morrow.=20
The facility will be part of Gateway Village, a planned development area
tha=
t=20
will house office and retail buildings, hotels and conference centers,
in=20
addition to the archives building. Gateway Village is at the
intersection of=
=20
Ga. Highway 54 and Clayton State Boulevard, and is adjacent to the
campus of=
=20
Clayton College and State University.



Eastside Journal 10/26/01
Court orders ex-employee to return yacht secrets
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/71250

by Nick Perry
KIRKLAND -- A disgruntled ex-employee of Craig McCaw called an old
yachting=20
buddy offering secret keel plans for two America's Cup racing boats,
court=20
documents show.
McCaw's OneWorld challenge, based in Kirkland, is suing Sean Reeves in
King=20
County Superior Court after Reeves allegedly tried to sell secrets worth
$2.=
5=20
million.
Reeves was named yesterday for the first time in new documents filed in
the=20
Trade Secrets Act case. The court has ordered Reeves to return
OneWorld's=20
secrets pending further findings.



Econtent 10/2001
Legit hack creates legal controversy
http://www.ecmag.net/Magazine/News/news01/ecnews10b.html

by Thomas Pack
Last August, a research team led by Princeton professor Edward Felten=20
presented a paper that was at the center of a debate over the 1998
Digital=20
Millennium Copyright Act, which restricts dissemination of decryption=20
information and, according to some academics and civil libertarians,
limits=20
the freedom of scientific research.=20
The controversy began last fall when Felten's team, which also
included=20
researchers from Rice University and a Xerox research center, broke=20
encryption technologies created by the Secure Digital Music Initiative,
a=20
collection of 200 major record labels and hardware/software
manufacturers=20
working to protect digital audio. In a public challenge, the SDMI had
been=20
offering a $10,000 prize to anyone who could remove a digital watermark
from=
=20
a music file in less than a month.=20



Winona Daily News 10/26/01
Educators get a lesson in Winona County history
http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/6museum.php

by David Krotz
Winona County teachers and students who are planning to be teachers got
a=20
healthy dose of education at the second annual Discover Winona County
Histor=
y=20
Day.=20
They were invited to attend an open house at the Winona County
Historical=20
Society to learn about the resources available to help them be more
effectiv=
e=20
in the classroom.=20
"It sounds corny, but it's a place where history comes alive," said
Jamie=20
Nicholas, a senior at Winona State University who is majoring in
social=20
science and history with an eye to teaching in high school after
graduation.=
=20



The Guardian 10/26/01
Reports on secrecy kept under wraps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,581000,00.html

Progress reports comparing how well individual Whitehall departments
have=20
been doing at sweeping away unnecessary secrecy must themselves be
concealed=
,=20
the Cabinet Office says.=20
They claim the right to keep secret monitoring reports which track how
many=20
historical files are being opened up by each department.=20
In recent years, the government has been trying to speed up the release
of=20
closed files to the public record office, the official archive.=20
Departments were told to try and open the thousands of records which
have=20
been suppressed for longer than the normal 30 year period.=20



New York Times 10/25/01
Inventing a way to index 50,000 memories of the Holocaust
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/circuits/25NEXT.html

by Bonnie Rothman Morris
The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a center devoted
to=20
collecting and preserving the testimony of Holocaust survivors and
witnesses=
,=20
has an embarrassment of riches: more than 116,000 hours of video,=20
representing the memories of more than 50,000 people. But until now it
has=20
been largely keeping them to itself.
The vast digital archive, which was established by Steven Spielberg in
1994,=
=20
is virtually an impenetrable thicket to would-be users like
historians,=20
educators and documentary filmmakers. Although the interviews are
cataloged,=
=20
the indexing is not specific enough to guide users. The few researchers
with=
=20
access to the archive thus spend countless hours sifting through
material=20
before they find what they need.



Vnunet.com 10/26/01
Data snooping laws won't be forced on ISPs
http://businessintelligence.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=3D56046

by Ian Lynch
UK government officials have promised not to force internet service
provider=
s=20
(ISPs) to retain records of which websites their customers browse,
what=20
newsgroups they read and to whom they send emails.=20
Officials from the Home Office and the Department of Trade and Industry
made=
=20
the promise on Wednesday during a meeting with the ISP Association
(ISPA),=20
the London Internet Exchange, telecoms companies and the Confederation
of=20
British Industry to discuss new anti-terrorist laws.=20
"The government confirmed that data retention would not be mandatory,"
said=20
the ISPA. However, although the proposed new anti-terrorist laws won't
be=20
compulsory, ISPs will be asked to sign up to a voluntary code of
practice to=
=20
clarify how long certain types of data can be retained.=20



Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 10/26/01
Deletion of e-mail on pledge investigated
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/oct01/pledge26102501a.asp

AP
Madison - The Dane County district attorney is investigating whether
the=20
school district's deletion of e-mail messages relating to the School
Board's=
=20
decision to prohibit students from saying the Pledge of Allegiance was
legal=
.
Phillip Prange, a Republican fund-raiser, filed an open record request
askin=
g=20
that all the e-mail sent to the Madison Metropolitan School District
about=20
the controversy be forwarded to him.
Prange acknowledged that the more than 22,000 messages could be used to
form=
=20
a contact list of those who might help an effort to recall a board
member.=20
But he said that was not the purpose of the request. He said he just
wanted=20
to read them.



Las Vegas Sun 10/26/01
Nevada officers plead guilty in FBI scandal
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-crime/2001/oct/26/512538189
.htm=
l

by Jeff German
Two Nevada law enforcement officers arrested in the secrets-for-sale
scandal=
=20
that rocked the Las Vegas FBI office pleaded guilty this week to
federal=20
conspiracy charges in New York.=20
Maria Emeterio, 34, a former investigator with the Nevada attorney
general's=
=20
office, and Mary Ellen Weeks, 43, a suspended Las Vegas Municipal
Court=20
intake services officer, each pleaded guilty to one federal count of=20
conspiring to steal FBI records, authorities said Thursday.=20
Both face up to five years in prison and are expected to be sentenced
in=20
February, said Stephen King, the assistant U.S. Attorney handling the
case i=
n=20
New York.=20



Seattle Post-Intelligencer 10/26/01
McCaw's America's Cup effort sails into courtroom
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/44124_mccaw25.shtml

by Joshunda Sanders
Highly competitive? Cutthroat business practices?
Forget high tech. Think yachting.
Wireless-phone billionaire Craig McCaw's yachting organization is suing
a=20
former employee, saying the worker tried to sell design secrets for
two=20
racing yachts to a rival America's Cup competitor owned by software
mogul=20
Larry Ellison.
In a competition that court filings say can be "won or lost in the
design=20
phase," this is serious business. The lawsuit was brought under the
state's=20
Trade Secrets Act and involves some of the world's richest men.



New York Times 10/26/01
Mich. Museum pays $492K for bus
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Rosa-Parks-Bus.html?searchpv
=3Da=
ponl

ine

AP
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A Michigan museum has paid $492,000 at an
Internet=20
auction for a bus whose owners say was the one on which Rosa Parks
refused t=
o=20
give up her seat to a white man in 1955.
Steve Hamp, president of the Henry Ford Museum, called the bus ``the
most=20
important artifact in civil rights history'' even as some wondered if it
is=20
the actual vehicle.



New York Times 10/26/01
MSN lockout stirs antitrust rumblings
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1005-200-7667367.html?searchpv=3Dcnet

by Sandeep Junnarkar and Joe Wilcox
As some third-party browsers remain unable to access Microsoft's
popular=20
MSN.com Web site for a second day, the lockout has stirred up further=20
anti-competitive concerns about the giant software maker.=20
Microsoft has said it has reopened the redesigned MSN site to rival
browser=20
makers, but as of Friday morning, the most recent browsers from
Mozilla.org=20
and Opera Software still could not access MSN. Netscape users also
continued=
=20
to report access problems.=20


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

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FACE=3D"=
Courier New" LANG=3D"0">There are 15 stories in this posting.
<BR>
<BR>The Scotsman 10/26/01
<BR>Historic university hit by =A37m blaze
<BR>http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=3D118802
<BR>
<BR>by Jeanette Oldham
<BR>FOR 100 years the Bower Building stood out as a proud and
distinctive el=
ement of the Glasgow University skyline.=20
<BR>Last night it was in ruins after a fire which caused =A37 million of
dam=
age and destroyed works by Charles Darwin valued at more than =A32
million.=20
<BR>The blaze, which broke out on the top floor destroyed dozens of rare
boo=
ks and manuscripts.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Times 10/26/01
<BR>Darwin papers lost in blaze
<BR>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001372249,00.html
<BR>
<BR>by Gillian Harris
<BR>Scotland Correspondent
<BR>AN investigation began yesterday into the cause of a fire which
caused m=
ore than =A38 million worth of damage and destroyed irreplacable works
by Ch=
arles Darwin when it ripped through a historic University of Glasgow
buildin=
g.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Asahi Shimbun 10/25/01
<BR>Bill labels research a defense secret
<BR>http://www.asahi.com/english/politics/K2001102500317.html
<BR>
<BR>Defense research projects-including war simulations-will fall under
the=20=
category of national secrets, according to a bill aimed at imprisoning
those=
 who leak such information.
<BR>People who disclose information about defense projects or abet in
such l=
eaks face a maximum five-year prison term, Shingo Shuto,
director-general of=
 the Bureau of Defense Policy at the Defense Agency, said in an
interview wi=
th The Asahi Shimbun.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Clayton County News-Daily 10/26/01
<BR>Officials: State archives should be boost economy
<BR>http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D2552603&amp;BRD=3D1099&a
mp;P=
AG=3D461&amp;dept_id=3D99012&amp;rfi=3D6
<BR>
<BR>by Justin Reedy
<BR>Clayton County will soon be home to every historical document in the
his=
tory of Georgia.
<BR>On Thursday the Clayton County Development Authority approved a $40
mill=
ion bond that will fund the state Department of Archives and History to
be b=
uilt in Morrow.=20
<BR>The facility will be part of Gateway Village, a planned development
area=
 that will house office and retail buildings, hotels and conference
centers,=
 in addition to the archives building. Gateway Village is at the
intersectio=
n of Ga. Highway 54 and Clayton State Boulevard, and is adjacent to the
camp=
us of Clayton College and State University.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Eastside Journal 10/26/01
<BR>Court orders ex-employee to return yacht secrets
<BR>http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/71250
<BR>
<BR>by Nick Perry
<BR>KIRKLAND -- A disgruntled ex-employee of Craig McCaw called an old
yacht=
ing buddy offering secret keel plans for two America's Cup racing boats,
cou=
rt documents show.
<BR>McCaw's OneWorld challenge, based in Kirkland, is suing Sean Reeves
in K=
ing County Superior Court after Reeves allegedly tried to sell secrets
worth=
 $2.5 million.
<BR>Reeves was named yesterday for the first time in new documents filed
in=20=
the Trade Secrets Act case. The court has ordered Reeves to return
OneWorld'=
s secrets pending further findings.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Econtent 10/2001
<BR>Legit hack creates legal controversy
<BR>http://www.ecmag.net/Magazine/News/news01/ecnews10b.html
<BR>
<BR>by Thomas Pack
<BR>Last August, a research team led by Princeton professor Edward
Felten pr=
esented a paper that was at the center of a debate over the 1998 Digital
Mil=
lennium Copyright Act, which restricts dissemination of decryption
informati=
on and, according to some academics and civil libertarians, limits the
freed=
om of scientific research.=20
<BR>The controversy began last fall when Felten's team, which also
included=20=
researchers from Rice University and a Xerox research center, broke
encrypti=
on technologies created by the Secure Digital Music Initiative, a
collection=
 of 200 major record labels and hardware/software manufacturers working
to p=
rotect digital audio. In a public challenge, the SDMI had been offering
a $1=
0,000 prize to anyone who could remove a digital watermark from a music
file=
 in less than a month.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Winona Daily News 10/26/01
<BR>Educators get a lesson in Winona County history
<BR>http://www.winonadailynews.com/news/6museum.php
<BR>
<BR>by David Krotz
<BR>Winona County teachers and students who are planning to be teachers
got=20=
a healthy dose of education at the second annual Discover Winona County
Hist=
ory Day.=20
<BR>They were invited to attend an open house at the Winona County
Historica=
l Society to learn about the resources available to help them be more
effect=
ive in the classroom.=20
<BR>"It sounds corny, but it's a place where history comes alive," said
Jami=
e Nicholas, a senior at Winona State University who is majoring in
social sc=
ience and history with an eye to teaching in high school after
graduation.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Guardian 10/26/01
<BR>Reports on secrecy kept under wraps
<BR>http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,581000,00.ht
ml
<BR>
<BR>Progress reports comparing how well individual Whitehall departments
hav=
e been doing at sweeping away unnecessary secrecy must themselves be
conceal=
ed, the Cabinet Office says.=20
<BR>They claim the right to keep secret monitoring reports which track
how m=
any historical files are being opened up by each department.=20
<BR>In recent years, the government has been trying to speed up the
release=20=
of closed files to the public record office, the official archive.=20
<BR>Departments were told to try and open the thousands of records which
hav=
e been suppressed for longer than the normal 30 year period.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/25/01
<BR>Inventing a way to index 50,000 memories of the Holocaust
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/25/technology/circuits/25NEXT.html
<BR>
<BR>by Bonnie Rothman Morris
<BR>The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, a center
devoted t=
o collecting and preserving the testimony of Holocaust survivors and
witness=
es, has an embarrassment of riches: more than 116,000 hours of video,
repres=
enting the memories of more than 50,000 people. But until now it has
been la=
rgely keeping them to itself.
<BR>The vast digital archive, which was established by Steven Spielberg
in 1=
994, is virtually an impenetrable thicket to would-be users like
historians,=
 educators and documentary filmmakers. Although the interviews are
cataloged=
, the indexing is not specific enough to guide users. The few
researchers wi=
th access to the archive thus spend countless hours sifting through
material=
 before they find what they need.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Vnunet.com 10/26/01
<BR>Data snooping laws won't be forced on ISPs
<BR>http://businessintelligence.ittoolbox.com/news/dispnews.asp?i=3D5604
6
<BR>
<BR>by Ian Lynch
<BR>UK government officials have promised not to force internet service
prov=
iders (ISPs) to retain records of which websites their customers browse,
wha=
t newsgroups they read and to whom they send emails.=20
<BR>Officials from the Home Office and the Department of Trade and
Industry=20=
made the promise on Wednesday during a meeting with the ISP Association
(ISP=
A), the London Internet Exchange, telecoms companies and the
Confederation o=
f British Industry to discuss new anti-terrorist laws.=20
<BR>"The government confirmed that data retention would not be
mandatory," s=
aid the ISPA. However, although the proposed new anti-terrorist laws
won't b=
e compulsory, ISPs will be asked to sign up to a voluntary code of
practice=20=
to clarify how long certain types of data can be retained.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel 10/26/01
<BR>Deletion of e-mail on pledge investigated
<BR>http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/oct01/pledge26102501a.asp
<BR>
<BR>AP
<BR>Madison - The Dane County district attorney is investigating whether
the=
 school district's deletion of e-mail messages relating to the School
Board'=
s decision to prohibit students from saying the Pledge of Allegiance was
leg=
al.
<BR>Phillip Prange, a Republican fund-raiser, filed an open record
request a=
sking that all the e-mail sent to the Madison Metropolitan School
District a=
bout the controversy be forwarded to him.
<BR>Prange acknowledged that the more than 22,000 messages could be used
to=20=
form a contact list of those who might help an effort to recall a board
memb=
er. But he said that was not the purpose of the request. He said he just
wan=
ted to read them.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Las Vegas Sun 10/26/01
<BR>Nevada officers plead guilty in FBI scandal
<BR>http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-crime/2001/oct/26/51253
8189=
.html
<BR>
<BR>by Jeff German
<BR>Two Nevada law enforcement officers arrested in the secrets-for-sale
sca=
ndal that rocked the Las Vegas FBI office pleaded guilty this week to
federa=
l conspiracy charges in New York.=20
<BR>Maria Emeterio, 34, a former investigator with the Nevada attorney
gener=
al's office, and Mary Ellen Weeks, 43, a suspended Las Vegas Municipal
Court=
 intake services officer, each pleaded guilty to one federal count of
conspi=
ring to steal FBI records, authorities said Thursday.=20
<BR>Both face up to five years in prison and are expected to be
sentenced in=
 February, said Stephen King, the assistant U.S. Attorney handling the
case=20=
in New York.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Seattle Post-Intelligencer 10/26/01
<BR>McCaw's America's Cup effort sails into courtroom
<BR>http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/44124_mccaw25.shtml
<BR>
<BR>by Joshunda Sanders
<BR>Highly competitive? Cutthroat business practices?
<BR>Forget high tech. Think yachting.
<BR>Wireless-phone billionaire Craig McCaw's yachting organization is
suing=20=
a former employee, saying the worker tried to sell design secrets for
two ra=
cing yachts to a rival America's Cup competitor owned by software mogul
Larr=
y Ellison.
<BR>In a competition that court filings say can be "won or lost in the
desig=
n phase," this is serious business. The lawsuit was brought under the
state'=
s Trade Secrets Act and involves some of the world's richest men.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/26/01
<BR>Mich. Museum pays $492K for bus
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Rosa-Parks-Bus.html?sear
chpv=
=3Daponline
<BR>
<BR>AP
<BR>MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A Michigan museum has paid $492,000 at an
Inter=
net auction for a bus whose owners say was the one on which Rosa Parks
refus=
ed to give up her seat to a white man in 1955.
<BR>Steve Hamp, president of the Henry Ford Museum, called the bus ``the
mos=
t important artifact in civil rights history'' even as some wondered if
it i=
s the actual vehicle.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 10/26/01
<BR>MSN lockout stirs antitrust rumblings
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1005-200-7667367.html?searchpv=3D
cnet
<BR>
<BR>by Sandeep Junnarkar and Joe Wilcox
<BR>As some third-party browsers remain unable to access Microsoft's
popular=
 MSN.com Web site for a second day, the lockout has stirred up further
anti-=
competitive concerns about the giant software maker.=20
<BR>Microsoft has said it has reopened the redesigned MSN site to rival
brow=
ser makers, but as of Friday morning, the most recent browsers from
Mozilla.=
org and Opera Software still could not access MSN. Netscape users also
conti=
nued to report access problems.=20
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
<BR>Richmond, Va</FONT></HTML>

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Date:    Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:59:59 EST
From:    Peter Kurilecz <PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM>
Subject: RAIN 10/29: Weekend Update Part 3

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There are 19 stories in this posting.


Lincoln Journal-Star 10/27/01
Cather family donates papers, photos to NU
http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=3D4623&past=3D

AP
A collection of family papers said to have provided the context for some
of=20
Willa Cather's novels, including "My Antonia," has been donated to
the=20
University of Nebraska.=20
The collection of letters, diaries, photographs and manuscripts from
Cather'=
s=20
aunt and uncle, Frances and George Cather, was donated by the
couple's=20
great-granddaughter, Mary Weddle.=20



Tribune-Chronicle 10/27/01
Recorder's office makes online debut
http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/news/story/10272001_new05.asp

by Bob Bromley
WARREN -- Looking up a deed or mortgage can now be done at home, as
the=20
Trumbull County Recorder's Office has gone online. The office's new Web
page=
=20
debuted Monday.=20
Searchers can get basic information about any document dating back to
1985,=20
and any document dating back to 1997 can be viewed and printed in its=20
entirety. The online users will need to sign in and give their password
each=
=20
time before searching for documents on the site.=20
''It is a wonderful site. We are very happy with it,'' said County
Recorder=20
Diana Marchese.=20



Pioneer Press 10/27/01
"Runners' comb police data to find accident victims
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/170135.htm

by Rick Linsk
It's a Wednesday and dawn has just broken outside the St. Paul Police=20
Department. Three men mill about the lobby, waiting for the records=20
department to open.=20
At precisely 8 a.m., they board the elevator to the third floor and
approach=
=20
the records counter. One man slips a check under the glass partition and
a=20
clerk hands over a batch of accident reports. The other two, working=20
together, pay in cash. One quickly flips through the crash reports, then
the=
y=20
leave. As they head out, another customer approaches the counter.=20
Known as "runners," they visit Twin Cities police stations daily to
obtain=20
the names and addresses of people involved in traffic accidents. They
contac=
t=20
victims in hopes of steering them to personal-injury lawyers and
doctors.=20



The Standard Examiner 10/27/01
Fate of church papers still unknown
http://www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story.html?sid=3D000110270021
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by Bryce Petersen Jr.
LOGAN -- The fate of the Arrington papers, including those not
currently=20
sequestered, is still in doubt.=20
The papers, donated to Utah State University by former Church of Jesus
Chris=
t=20
of Latter-day Saints archivist Leonard Arrington, detail the history of
the=20
church. Church officials contend the documents belong to them and
contain=20
information of a "private and confessional nature."=20
A document released by the church and signed by Arrington, who has
since=20
died, states that copies of "diaries, journals and documents filed in
the=20
Church Archives" would be returned to the Historical Department upon=20
Arrington"s retirement from Brigham Young University.=20


USU caught in paper chase
http://www.sltrib.com/10272001/utah/utah.htm

by Kirsten Stewart and Peggy Fletcher Stack
With pressure coming from all sides -- the LDS Church, state Board of=20
Regents, historians -- Utah State University said Friday that ownership
of=20
some papers in the Leonard Arrington historical collection is far
from=20
resolved.=20
The LDS Church presented USU with two documents this week asserting its
righ=
t=20
to a significant portion of the collection; the disputed papers have
been=20
temporarily closed to public access.=20
"I don't see the documents as a slam dunk," said Craig Simper, USU's
legal=20
counsel. "We're looking very much forward to seeing the dust settle
this=20
weekend and to continuing discussions with the church."=20


Deseret News 10/27/01
USU and church are at odds over historical papers
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,335007879,00.html?

by Carrie A. Moore
Part of a collection of papers donated by former LDS Church historian
Leonar=
d=20
Arrington to Utah State University has been "temporarily sequestered"
by=20
officials at the school while questions of ownership and copyright
are=20
resolved with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In a joint statement issued Wednesday, the two entities said the
collection=20
"includes some private and confidential materials that the church
believes=20
are owned by the church or its affiliated entities and not by Arrington
or=20
subject to his disposition."



Star-Tribune 10/29/01
Anti-terror experts take hard look at steganography - hiding messages
in=20
other messages
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/787263.html

by Chris Seper
Newhouse News Service
Secret Agent Jezzie Flannigan called it a cutting-edge method of
passing=20
notes in class.
Of course, Jezzie -- and the scenario -- are fiction. "Agent Flannigan"
was=20
actually actress Monica Potter, who tries to solve a kidnapping in the
recen=
t=20
thriller "Along Came a Spider."
In the movie, the FBI discovers that a girl has been e-mailing her
classmate=
s=20
images with hidden messages. Not even the feds can break the code.
But now real-world events have pushed such steganography -- literally,
hidin=
g=20
messages in other messages -- into the realm of real secret agents.
The=20
government thinks that Osama bin Laden's supporters might have sent
coded=20
images through cyberspace with secret marching orders connected to the
Sept.=
=20
11 attacks.


Daily Gazette 10/28/01
Archivist hopes to chronicle black history in Schenectady
http://www.dailygazette.com/local.shtml#story4A100002

by Katy Moeller
SCHENECTADY - After six years on the job, Don Hulett is preparing to
retire=20
as caretaker of the historical materials stored neatly in the attic of
City=20
Hall.=20
The 60-year-old city archivist, who has been known to come to work as
early=20
as 5:30 a.m. and stay late in the afternoon, has one more project he
wants t=
o=20
get rolling before he leaves at the end of January.=20
Hulett hopes to fill what he believes is a glaring absence in the
city=20
archives, formally known as the Efner History Research Library.=20



Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 10/28/01
In the Spotlight: Allegheny paper shredders
http://www.post-gazette.com/businessnews/20011028spot1028bnp5.asp

by Patricia Sabatini
Seventy-three-year-old John Wagner has a thing for heavy equipment.=20
He and his wife, Barbara, like to "relax" by buzzing around on
his-and-her=20
bulldozers, clearing acres of brush on farmland they own near
Delmont,=20
outside of Murrysville.
It's an unusual pastime, but one you might expect from a man who's made
a=20
living the last 30 years building multi-ton, industrial-size paper
shredders=
.=20
These monster, conveyor-fed machines, which can easily chomp their
way=20
through a catalog or hardback book up to about 4 inches thick, aren't=20
anything like the wimpy fax machine-size shredders you might have at
home.=20



Pioneer Planet 10/26/01
Officer punished for data release
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/yhoo/mtc_docs/169675.htm

by Lisa Donovan
An acting sergeant for the St. Paul Police Department was handed a
30-day=20
suspension and reassigned after sending confidential police and
sheriff's=20
documents to an imprisoned nephew.=20
St. Paul Police Chief William Finney suspended Benny L. Williams,
despite th=
e=20
police-civilian review panel's recommendation to fire the nine-year
veteran,=
=20
according to police documents. In a disciplinary notice to Williams,
the=20
chief formalized the suspension and informed Williams he would be
"returned=20
to the position of Police Officer and assigned as a School Resource
Officer=20
in the Juvenile Unit."=20



Orlando Sentinel 10/28/01
When Disney went to war
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-subizdisneywar28102801oct28.
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coll=3Dorl%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines

by Robert Johnson
War has always been hell, but at least American military insignia
offered=20
some humor when Walt Disney's animators were in charge of the
marketing=20
campaign.