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RAIN: Holiday Update 12/23/01



There are 12 stories in this posting


Boston Globe 12/23/01
Town's history lost when artifacts vanish
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/357/metro/Town_s_history_lost_when_artifacts_vanish+.shtml

by Michele Kurtz
Westminster - Kristine Haney's heart cartwheeled. There on a 1925 town report appeared an amazing notation: The son of a famous Westminster Civil War general had given the town a letter written by President Lincoln.
''To have a letter from Abraham Lincoln is like having the Ten Commandments,'' said Haney, a Westminster resident and associate professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, who last week found evidence of the letter's existence.



Business 2.0 January 2002
Freeze Frames
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,35642,FF.html

by Brad Wieners
Roughly 200 feet beneath the earth's surface in a former Pennsylvania limestone mine, it's as cool as ever: -4 degrees Fahrenheit, with 35 percent relative humidity. The perfect climate for preserving photographic prints and negatives, according to Ken Johnston, and it's his business to know.



Bergen Record 12/23/01
Fake certificates easy to get, hard to spot
http://www.bergen.com/news/dmvbirth200112231.htm

by Jean Rimbach and Monsy Alvarado
A thriving underground market in birth certificates, counterfeit or stolen, helps support a criminal network that sells driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, an investigation by The Record has found.
Birth certificates, the ultimate proof of age, identity, and U.S. citizenship, are as readily available on the streets of Newark and Paterson as they are in the offices of government officials responsible for their safekeeping.



Financial Times 12/23/01
Information code of controversy
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3LAXX3LVC&live=true

by Jean Englesham
Will giving a job applicant the right of access to the employer's notes of their interview make the process fairer or simply drive discriminatory behaviour deeper underground?
The question - which divides business groups and legal experts - is prompted by a new code, which enshrines the right of applicants to access employers' records concerning them, subject to the payment of a fee of up to £10.



Houston Chronicle 12/23/01
Medical Center still mourning its losses
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1183316

by Todd Ackerman
John Putkey's new $1 million nuclear magnetic resonance machine had been up and running less than a month when Tropical Storm Allison hit the Texas Medical Center in June.
The 8-foot-high piece of equipment was quickly submerged under 20 feet of water and ruined beyond repair. Putkey estimates it'll be another 1 1/2 years before a replacement is obtained and fully functioning.



Washington Post 12/23/01
Making the past abundantly clear
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13110-2001Dec21.html

by Jo Ann Lewis
Despite the prospect of millions of dollars in budget cuts, the Smithsonian has some great news for photography fans. It has launched a new initiative which, if it succeeds, will create a National Center for Photography at the museum complex.
It's an idea quietly hatched by Smithsonian photography curator Merry Foresta. And it will surface at the Arts and Industries Building in May 2003, with the first general survey of the Smithsonian's trove of 13 million photographs.




Bergen Record 12/23/01
Puerto Rican certificates are worth a premium
http://www.bergen.com/news/dmvpr200112231.htm

by Jean Rimbach and Monsy Alvarado
On the black market for falsified documents, Puerto Rican birth certificates draw a premium.
The colorful certificates, with hues fading from pink to blue to yellow to green, command a fee of at least $250, $100 over the price for standard American paper.



Henderson Gleaner 12/23/01
Make sure your business is prepared for a disaster
http://www.myinky.com/ecp/business/article/0,1626,ECP_736_916037,00.html

If you own a business, it is important to have a plan in place if disaster strikes. If your facility is substantially damaged, your business will be effectively shut down.



Dallas Morning News 12/23/01
New editions restore all the novelists' words
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.eaf17ac5ee.b0.af.0.a4.a017d.html

by Doug Simpson
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - Fans of All the King's Men could be in for a shock when they read the new edition of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel.
The protagonist has a different name. The narrator has a fouler mouth and a dirtier mind. Chapters four and five have merged into a single chapter.



San Francisco Examiner 12/16/01
Saved, but never to be seen again?
http://www.examiner.com/business/default.jsp?story=b.past.1216w

Associated Press
PITTSBURGH -- Hundreds of feet down in the dimly lighted labyrinth of an old limestone mine, Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks and the Kennedys are taking up residence, their new digs a freezer far from the more temperate climes of New York City.
Their images -- and 11 million other photos, negatives and glass plates that comprise the vast Bettmann Archive -- have been trucked from Manhattan to a Cold War-era underground shelter 45 miles north of Pittsburgh where they will be safe from fire and flood, terrorism and the ravages of old age.



San Jose Mercury News 12/22/01
Trade school students caught in the middle
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/mastrs122301.htm

by John Woolfolk
Nine months after a San Jose computer trade school abruptly folded, the high-tech dreams of 158 students remain in limbo, their records held hostage in a payment dispute between the state, the school and a storage company.
About 100 boxes of Masters Institute student transcripts are locked away at a Sunnyvale Iron Mountain storage yard, which won't release them until someone pays the failed school's bill.



Washington Post 12/23/01
Vacation shots: Time to go digital?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12160-2001Dec21.html

by Michael Shapiro
Four years ago, Harry Abraham, a former photographer for UPI, went to Europe with his wife and shot nine rolls of film. Back home, he took them to a local lab -- and got eight rolls back.
Like countless other travelers, Abraham now uses a digital camera, citing advantages ranging from no film costs to the ability to view images instantly. And he no longer fears the lab will lose a prized roll.





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