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RAIN 11/12: Weekend Update Part 4



There are 19 stories in this posting.

AMNews 11/12/01
Corporate giants enter electronical medical record market, form Amicore
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_01/tesb1112.htm

by Tyler Chin
Pfizer Inc., IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have launched a new company that will sell electronic medical records software and services to office-based physicians.
Seven months after they announced their intention to enter the health care technology market, the pharmaceutical and technology giants in October formed Amicore Inc. to serve as their vehicle.



Asahi Shimbun 11/08/01
Diet to carry over personal info bill
http://www.asahi.com/english/politics/K2001110800555.html

A bill aimed at protecting personal information has been shelved, pushing a tug-of-war over privacy protection and freedom of _expression_ into next year.
The government-sponsored bill will be carried over to the next ordinary Diet session, scheduled to start in January.



BBC News 11/11/01
Anti-terror laws raise net privacy fears
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1647000/1647309.stm

Powers to scrutinise records of online activities granted to UK law enforcement agencies to tackle terrorism in the wake of September's attacks could undermine online privacy, warn net experts.
They fear that the mass of data about the online lives of Britain's net users could be trawled by police forces investigating any crime.
Existing legislation makes it easy for police to get permission to search through the comprehensive logs of online activity once it has been collected.



ABCNews.com 11/11/01
Dutch Jewish community tracking down Holocaust
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20011111_524.html

AP
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) The records were all there, tucked away in an attic cupboard of an old canal house. Rings, watches, earrings, stocks, family photographs every item the Nazis stole from Dutch Jews was carefully listed in the archives of a now defunct bank.
When the files were discovered three years ago, thousands of people sought copies of the index cards that recounted a small piece of their family history.



Flint Journal 11/10/01
Flint: College seeks memorabilia
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20011105ff5a3flintpoint.frm

Baker College is calling on alumni and others to help find school memorabilia for a historical display.
The college is creating an archive to display, maintain and share its rich history.
Administrators are asking anyone with Baker College catalogs, brochures, pennants, newspapers, diplomas or other materials, dating from the college's founding in 1911 to the present, to contact the college.



Kansas City Jewish Chronicle 11/09/01
Gone but not forgotten: New book traces history of Jewish Kansas City through burial records
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2619776&BRD=1425&PAG=461&dept_id=154733&rfi=6

by Deborah Klee
What would you do the first Monday of your retirement after 30 years in the field of Jewish education in Kansas City? If you're Anita Loeb, amateur historian and author, you would be in the public library, thumbing through old records, a master sleuth looking for clues to a people's story.
"I've always been interested in family history," said Loeb.
But as she was browsing through the library's treasures for information about her own family, a spark ignited a passion in her for finding missing pieces to the history of all Kansas City's Jews.



San Antonio Express-News 11/10/01
Preserving pieces of S.A.'s military history
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=130&xlc=498377

by Jonathan Gurwitz
San Antonio history is inextricably linked to military history. The defining event in the annals of San Antonio and the symbol for which it is known around the world involves a battle. Military aviation began on a drill field at Fort Sam Houston, where towering military figures like Pershing, Eisenhower and MacArthur were posted.



New York Times 11/11/01
Seeking privacy online, even as security tightens
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/technology/11SOFT.html?ex=1006146000&en=dc9b4d4b9438dc73&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER

by John Schwarz
Consumer privacy is getting a squeeze on all sides these days.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, a new federal law expands the government's powers on wiretapping and electronic monitoring. At the same time, proposals to develop tougher privacy standards for online businesses and to give federal regulators greater power to enforce those standards have stalled.



Sydney Morning Herald 11/12/01
Donor dads step pout of the shadows
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/12/text/national12.html

by Geesche Jacobsen
Children conceived from donor sperm, eggs or embryos would be allowed to gain information about their biological parents from a new donor register, under legislation to be put to State Cabinet.
While families open about the way their children were conceived welcomed the plan, the Government has been warned a register would frighten off donors and create psychological problems for the children.



Austin American Statesman 11/11/01
Wait continues for families in Elgin land title dispute
http://www.austin360.com/auto_docs/epaper/editions/sunday/metro_state_10.html

by Janet Jacobs
When it comes to clearing up a 150-year-old surveying mistake, patience is the name of the game.
On Tuesday, Texans voted to give about 30 people living near Elgin whose land was caught in a historic survey error clear title to their land. Correcting the problem took two years and a constitutional amendment that was approved with 74 percent of the vote.



Austin American-Statesman 11/11/01
State unlikely to restore its online birth records
http://www.austin360.com/auto_docs/epaper/editions/sunday/metro_state_5.html

by Dick Stanley
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Internet users increasingly are losing access to previously public information as government agencies clean their Web sites of data that might aid new attacks on such things as nuclear power plants.
Now ancestor-hunting genealogists, for whom the recent Web availability of vital statistics data has made locating the ancestors on their family trees a lot easier, might have to say goodbye to a handy official index of the names, dates and places of births in Texas from 1926 to 1996.



Austin American-Statesman 11/11/01
Book sheds new light on LBJ's war worries
http://www.austin360.com/auto_docs/epaper/editions/sunday/metro_state_4.html

by Bruce Hight
In leading the United States into the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson acted at the urging of President Kennedy's top national security advisers, who told him that his assassinated predecessor would have done the same. But later, after the war began to go badly, many of those same former aides would argue that Kennedy would never have gotten the country so involved in Vietnam.



Sunday Gazette-Mail 11/11/01
Cultural Center exhibits wartime correspondence
http://sundaygazettemail.com/news/News/200111112/

by Rusty Marks
IN September 1943, Staff Sgt. William Smith got a letter from his mother in Logan. After apologizing for providing little news, she revealed what was really on her mind.



Sun-Sentinel 11/11/01
Signing on the dotted line, digitally
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-sbsig11nov11.story?coll=sfla%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines

by Christine Winter
The technology for sending safe and secure documents with legal digital signatures across the Internet has been available for years, but so far the industry has made only a little dent in the mass marketplace.
There are several reasons that the online document delivery business has grown at a snail's pace, but mainly, say experts, it is because most of the software consists of components too complex for any but the most advanced users.



Bellingham Herald 11/11/01
Three local requests filled with no hassles
http://news.bellinghamherald.com/stories/20011111/FrontPage/77271.shtml

by Dean Kahn
Two Bellingham Herald employees reported good results when they asked for public records from local agencies, but in two cases they had to wait several days to see the documents.
The Herald employees were part of a statewide audit of public agencies to see whether government workers would attempt to withhold documents that the state's open records law says they must release. No government agency contacted by The Bellingham Herald violated the law.



Law.com 11/12/01
The cure for the common floppy disk
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZJXNGRRTC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0

by Brett Burney
In today's multimedia world, the tried and true floppy disk is just too small and too slow; however most of us still use floppy disks simply because they are a computing standard and just about every computer has a floppy drive.
But what do you do when your PowerPoint presentation won't fit on a floppy? And how do you keep a vast number of documents together when you have to juggle them on several separate disks? We'll look at a couple of products that just might hold the answers.



Norman Transcript 11/09/01
E-mails under open records act, AG says
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2622056&BRD=1285&PAG=461&dept_id=172355&rfi=6

by Ron Jenkins
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY - Electronic messages between state agencies and local governments are subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said Friday in a groundbreaking legal opinion.
The opinion, announced at the First Amendment Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, was requested by Susan C. McVey, director of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. McVey was out of state and unavailable for comment.



Salt Lake Tribune 11/11/01
LDS faith protective of its past
http://www.sltrib.com/11112001/utah/147790.htm

by Peggy Fletcher Stack and Kirsten Stewart
James Bennett received an unexpected gift while serving an LDS mission to Scotland in 1988 -- a copy of the missionary diaries of his great-grandfather, David O. McKay.
The 19-year-old was well aware that McKay, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1950 to 1971, was one of the most popular Mormon leaders ever, renowned for his open mind and gentle, benevolent manner.



Star-Tribune 11/11/01
A private eye for the information age
http://www.startribune.com/stories/539/808235.html

by Dick Youngblood
aul Jaeb bears little resemblance to Mike Hammer, the fictional private detective who inhabited my adolescent fantasies.
No trench coats, no curvaceous damsels in distress, no trigger-happy thugs to outwit: Far from an atmosphere of sex and violence, Jaeb operates in a world of computer searches and records analyses.





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