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RAIN 01/13: Weekend Update 01/07/02 Part 3



There are 6 stories in this posting.

Charlotte Observer 01/06/02
Records of past kin to go online
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/catawba/docs/history0106.htm

by Hannah Mitchell
NEWTON -- By June, Catawba County genealogists will be able to access some family history records online rather than driving to Newton for research.
The county library recently won a state grant to place on compact discs and the Web part of the family history files it keeps at the main branch in Newton.



Pacific Business News 01/04/02
Registration spat ruffles car dealers
http://pacific.bcentral.com/pacific/stories/2002/01/07/story4.html

by Steve Jefferson
Tags Auto Registration Inc., the state's largest company serving car and truck dealers, had a rough week.
In a span of just 10 days, infighting -- apparently over control of the company -- brought Tags to the brink of dissolution and litigation before the warring executives patched things up Monday.



The Age 01/07/02
Internet porn a headache for employers
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2002/01/07/FFXQSFIP3WC.html

by Brad Norington
A rise in the number of workers caught downloading or distributing Internet pornography has produced a legal quandary over an employers' right to fire.
Legal uncertainty over what lawyers call "a new type of misconduct" has made employers reluctant to dismiss staff and risk losing unfair dismissal cases.



Dallas Morning News 01/07/02
Holocaust museum officials hope new site builds wider audience
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/STORY.eb3ed5a3f9.b0.af.0.a4.9c2ee.html

by Sonny Lopez
EL PASO - In an unassuming trailer serving as the temporary offices for the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center, Leslie Novick busily works out the details for borrowing three exhibits from museums in Germany.
The trailer, not much different than ones used by construction firms at building sites, stands on a West Side dead end in front of the charred shell of the museum building. An electrical fire ravaged the museum Oct. 1, laying waste to one-of-a-kind displays, documents and memorabilia.



The Times Herald 01/07/02
Two-year quest to find mom pays off
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2916625&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6

by Keith Phucas
PLYMOUTH MEETING -- Growing up in Hazelton in the 1980s, Maryann Hollis knew she was different. Different, that is, from her parents.
Hollis' father was Sicilian, her mother a Slovak. By contrast, Maryann had fair skin and rosy cheeks.
"I looked Irish," she said.
She was half right.



The Toronto Star 01/07/02
Papers cast light on Nazi atomic-bomb project
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1010402625539&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World&col=968350060724

AP
LONDON (AP) - Werner Heisenberg, the scientific genius behind Adolf Hitler's secret atomic bomb program, revealed its existence in 1941 to Niels Bohr, the Danish scientist who later became part of the Manhattan Project, according to secret documents cited in a London newspaper.
The documents indicate Heisenberg did not express moral doubts to his counterpart during the meeting with Bohr in Nazi-occupied Denmark about building a bomb for Hitler.





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