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RAIN 11/16 Part 2: Dead Sea Scrolls, Ellis Island update, XML



There are 11 stories in this posting.

Washington Post 11/14/01
Pieces of Croatia's Holocaust now online
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24988-2001Nov13.html

by Jacqueline Trescott
In January 1942, Andela Hrg, an inmate of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, was suffering from extreme hunger and began writing a collection of recipes. She finished it the next month and the small, yellowed book with the simple title "Recepti" is a testament to her endurance.


Register-Pajaronian 11/15/01
The price of justice
http://www.zwire.com/news/newsstory.cfm?newsid=2639378&title=%3Cp%3EThe%20price%20of%20justice&BRD=1197&PAG=461&CATNAME=Top%20Stories&CATEGORYID=410

by Kathryn Gillick
Santa Cruz County Court will hear a motion by the business partner of slain Watsonville nursing home owner Gaylord "Kelly" Chicote to release the court records on the people convicted of killing Chicote.
Richard Murphy want the records showing the cost of defending Kimberly Labore, Sean Petznick and Adam Banes released under the Freedom of Information Act and examined, claiming too much was spent on their defense.



Washington Times 11/15/01
Resort city approves using face-recognition technology
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20011115-91586606.htm

by Jabeen Bhatti
Virginia Beach is the second city in the nation to approve the use of face-recognition surveillance technology after the September 11 attacks shifted support toward the security measure.
The Virginia City Council Tuesday in a 9-1 vote approved a technology called FaceIt that allows police to match the image of a person's face stored on a database with an image captured by cameras scanning crowds in public places.



San Diego Union-Tribune 11/15/01
Foreign students facing more scrutiny by federal agencies
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20011115-9999_1m15snoop.html

by Marisa Taylor and Samuel Autman
As many as three federal agencies may soon be scrutinizing international students at colleges and universities across the United States, forcing campus officials to balance privacy rights with national security.



New York Times 11/15/01
Team is ready to publish full set of Dead Sea scrolls
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/science/social/15SCRO.html

by John Noble Wilford
Fifty-four years after the discovery of the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a sensation in 20th-century archaeology, all the ancient texts have finally been published, or nearly so.
The announcement of the virtual completion of the publication project - involving some 900 scrolls and commentaries in 38 volumes, 2 of them in the final stages of preparation - is to be made today at the New York Public Library by Dr. Emanuel Tov, a professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem who has been the project's editor in chief since 1990.



The Register Herald 11/15/01
Stanford audit made public
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2638671&BRD=1706&PAG=461&dept_id=72001&rfi=6

by Susan Pettibone
Supervisor Tom Kelly said he was told the town got an A- grade on the audit.
On Oct. 29, New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall released to the public a local government audit report entitled, "Town of Stanford - Report of Examination." The audit covered the period from Jan. 1, 2000, to May l, 2001.



CNET News.com 11/15/01
Web surfers crowd onto Ellis Island site
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7888731.html?tag=cd_mh

by Gwendolyn Mariano
An Ellis Island site that lets people dig into their ancestry via the Web has taken root, with the site recording 1.5 billion hits in its first six months.
The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation's Web site, EllisIslandRecords.org, provides access to immigration information on the 22 million people who entered the United States through the Port of New York and Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924. People can also sift through the database on computers at the American Family Immigration History Center located on Ellis Island.



Wall Street Journal 11/15/01
Echomail provides an answer for the avalanche of e-mail
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1005776873756157960.htm

by William M. Bulkeley
Send an e-mail to your senator, and there is a growing likelihood that it will first be read by a computer system called EchoMail.
The program, developed by EchoMail Inc., Cambridge, Mass., sorts, analyzes and even answers some of the e-mails sent to companies such as Kmart Corp., American Express Co. and Calvin Klein Inc. Now, after two years of pilot programs, more than 30 U.S. senators have installed it under a deal signed by the Senate sergeant-at-arms.



Wall Street Journal 11/15/01
Former Christie's CEO testifies on key memo in Taubman trial
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1005778178557548440.htm

by Kathryn Kranhold
NEW YORK -- Christopher Davidge, the former Christie's International PLC chief executive who gave the government crucial evidence of collusion in the high-end art world, testified publicly for the first time about a key memo in the case against former Sotheby's Holdings Inc. Chairman A. Alfred Taubman.



Wall Street Journal 11/14/01
Taubman diaries, notes show meetings with counterpart
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB1005692683820171600.htm

by Kathryn Kranhold
NEW YORK -- Former Sotheby's Holdings Inc. Chairman A. Alfred Taubman held at least a dozen one-on-one meetings from 1993 through October 1996 with his counterpart at rival Christie's International PLC, according to his personal diaries and itineraries presented at his trial.



Chicago Sun Times 11/13/01
XML is ready to change language of computers
http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-xml13.html

by Howard Wolinsky
Josh Schneider thinks he has seen the future--again.
Schneider, 28, made millions by getting into the Internet service-provider business early and then selling his company, American Information Services, before the dot-com crash.
Today's buzzword is XML.






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