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RAIN 11/02: Auction results, missing records, consultant's records



There are 20 stories in this posting.

AP 10/31/01
Copy of early Mormon Document sold
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011031/us/mormon_manuscript_1.html

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A rare copy of the Book of Commandments, an early version of the Mormon church's Doctrine and Covenants, has been sold at an auction in New York for $391,000.


Kansas City Star 11/01/01
Rare Mormon book fetches $391,000 at Christie's auction
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/local.pat,local/3acd19ea.a31,.html

by Brian Burnes
An 1833 Mormon book published in Independence sold in New York this week for $391,000.
A rare copy of the Book of Commandments, an early version of the Mormon church's Doctrine and Covenants, was sold by Christie's auction house to an unnamed person.
The book is rare because on July 20, 1833, opponents of the Mormon movement broke into the publisher's house in Independence and threw the printing press out of a second-story window, scattering type.


Reuters 10/31/01
Lord of the Rings archive set for London auction
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011031/re/arts_tolkien_dc_1.html

LONDON (Reuters) - An archive showing the development of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy ``The Lord of the Rings'' is expected to fetch up to 35,000 pounds ($50,940) when it goes under the hammer next month.



Reuters 10/31/01
S.Africa wrestles with past in Apartheid Museum
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011031/lf/safrica_apartheid_dc_2.html

by Sue Thomas
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - Visitors to South Africa's first apartheid museum will be taken back to the not-so-long-ago days of racial intolerance through separate entrances for whites and blacks.
Giant images of the passbooks that confined blacks to squalid ghettos line a corridor that, eventually, leads to rooms of hope. They show the triumph over apartheid with Nelson Mandela's release in 1990 from 27 years of imprisonment by the white minority regime.


Amarillo Globe-News 11/01/01
Some papers returned to DOE reading room
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/110101/new_readingroom.shtml

by Jim McBride
Pantex officials have returned some documents to Amarillo's Energy Department reading room, but the federal government continues to review many once-public reports to determine whether they will be returned to library shelves.



Baraboo News Republic 10/31/01
County opens personnel file
http://baraboo.scwn.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2001/October/31-101-news1.txt

by Brian Bridgeford
BARABOO -- Sauk County is no longer a defendant in a Baraboo policeman's open records civil suit after releasing documents related to a harassment complaint against the officer.
In an action filed Monday, Sauk County Circuit Court Judge Patrick Taggart ordered the county dismissed as a defendant in a demand for public records filed by Officer Hal Hempel. Sauk County and the sheriff's department were released after complying with the open records request. They also agreed each party will cover its own legal fees.



Boston Globe 11/01/01
SUV files call Ford's claim into question
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/305/business/SUV_files_call_Ford_s_claims_into_question+.shtml

by Bloomberg News
Indianapolis -- Lawyers for Ford Explorer owners say they'll seek legal sanctions against the automaker for withholding evidence that it knew by 1999 that the best-selling sport-utility vehicle was unstable.


Washington Post 11/01/01
Bush clamping down on presidential papers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20731-2001Oct31.html

by George Lardner Jr
The Bush White House has drafted an executive order that would usher in a new era of secrecy for presidential records and allow an incumbent president to withhold a former president's papers even if the former president wanted to make them public.
The five-page draft would also require members of the public seeking particular documents to show "at least a 'demonstrated, specific need' " for them before they would be considered for release.



Eureka Alert 11/01/01
Computerized social science data archive
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-11/uom-css110101.php'

ANN ARBOR---Significant changes have been taking place at the world's largest computerized social science data archive, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Part of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR), ICPSR recently welcomed a new director, Myron Gutmann, who was formerly director of the Population Research Center and professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin. Gutmann is giving top priority to an ambitious series of activities that ICPSR has launched to expand services to approximately 500 member institutions and enhance access to its massive archive.



Courier Gazette 10/31/01
Records missing from town
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2576438&BRD=1464&PAG=461&dept_id=179644&rfi=6

by Jessica Lee
WASHINGTON - Important records have disappeared from the town office - including the permit issued for Lane Construction Corp.'s Route 220 mining operation.
Resident Bo Marks requested a copy of the 1992 permit at the selectmen's Oct. 16 meeting. Code Enforcement Officer Bill Anderson said the permit is missing.


The Guardian 11/01/01
File swapping with instant messaging
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,584085,00.html

by Jack Schofield
More than 100 million people use instant messaging (IM) programs on the net, and a growing number are using the same software to exchange files. IM programs enable users to share MP3 music files, videos and other types of multimedia, without using a host such as Napster.
To join in, you have to install a messaging program such as AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo Messenger. All can now be used to transfer files. If you have a version that cannot do this, you will need to upgrade.


New York Times 11/01/01
Hijackers had Social Security Nos.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Attacks-Social-Security.html

AP
WASHINGTON (AP) -- All 19 terrorist hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks had Social Security numbers and 13 obtained them legally, the government says.
The Social Security Administration's inspector general told House members Thursday that the government needs to tighten the process it uses to issue the numbers.
``We have learned that the risks inherent in failing to adequately protect the integrity of the Social Security number may have serious consequences,'' said James G. Huse Jr. He has been assisting the FBI and the Justice Department with the investigation.


The Irish Times 11/01/01
Medical waste found at bonfire in Drimnagh
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/1101/hom15.htm

by Tim O'Brien
Medical waste and hospital records were found on a bonfire in Drimnagh, Dublin last night, local residents claimed.
The waste, which was contained in large cardboard boxes, was removed from a yellow Ford Transit van and left with material which had been stockpiled by locals for a bonfire, according to the residents.


Miami Herald 11/01/01
Federal authorities subpoena research labs
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/national/digdocs/113822.htm

by David Kidwell and Manny Garcia
Federal authorities have issued 60 subpoenas for records to anthrax research facilities nationwide in an effort to determine whether the bacteria used in deadly mail attacks was pilfered from a lab, according to sources close to the investigation.


Miami Herald 11/01/01
Private consultant's lobbyist records are public, court says
http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/local/dade/digdocs/045967.htm

by Jay Weaver
A state appeals court unanimously ruled Wednesday that a private consultant advising Miami-Dade County on the $5.4 billion expansion of Miami International Airport must disclose its lobbyist payments because they are public records.
The Third District Court of Appeal panel upheld, 3-0, a trial judge's decision ordering Dade Aviation Consultants to turn over those records to The Herald, which sued for them last year.



CIO 11/01/01
Miller's privacy warning
http://www.cio.com/archive/110101/miller.html

AS AMERICA girds against terrorism, federal privacy regulations That restrict the exchange of data online will probably take a back seat to law enforcement's need to know. But that doesn't let corporate America off the hook when it comes to protecting the privacy of consumers. Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller, the former host of the TV show Miller's Court and one of the country's best legal minds, says corporate executives should be especially concerned about protecting their companies and themselves from class action lawsuits stemming from the intrusive use of personal data gathered online.


CIO 11/01/01
Persistent Print
http://www.cio.com/archive/110101/et_revisit.html

WHEN JOHANNES GUTENBERG thought up the printing press in 1450, he had only one application in mind: automating the manufacture of indulgences, the get-out-of-damnation cards then sold to anxious sinners by the church. As it turned out, the indulgence business had a scaling problem-mass production turned what had been a tolerated irregularity into the perception of complete corruption. The cultural reaction wrecked not only the market but very nearly the church itself. However, his printing system sidestepped this unpleasantness, spreading within a matter of decades to every corner of civilization. By the 19th century the printing press became an essential arm of commerce, responsible for everything from forms to catalogs to money.



AP 11/01/01
Surgeon donates papers to Library
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011101/en/starzl_papers_1.html

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Even Dr. Thomas E. Starzl's trash is worthy of a spot in a library.
Starzl, the surgeon who performed the first-ever liver transplant in 1963, gave the University of Pittsburgh's Library System his personal papers. He and his staff were about to throw away the 200 linear feet of papers when he was approached about donating them to the school.



The Jewish Week 11/01/01
Archive Fever
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=5285

by Daniel Belasco
stroll across Princeton University's immaculate lawns, gaze at the unworried campus architecture, and enter the grand Firestone Library. Make a right and walk through a pair of doors, passing from the hushed hum of elite undergraduate study to a cacophony of Jewish voices bellowing from across the past two centuries.



Poughkeepsie Journal 10/31/01
Researcher follows living legacy
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/wednesday/community/stories/co103101s5.shtml

by Dan Shapley
NEW PALTZ -- When Paul Huth looks out into a valley of the Shawangunk Mountains, he sees more than the reds and yellows of forest canopy. He sees a history of land use written in the colors of autumn foliage.
''The maples and ash usually come into the old fields first,'' he said earlier this month, pointing out where the reds in the deepest parts of the Coxing Kill valley abutted still-green tree species.


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