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RAIN 03/02 Weekly Update: General Interest (9)



South Florida Business Journal 02/22/02
Practices: HIPAA, HIPAA, no hoorays
Ronni Sayewitz
It's not that physicians don't want to meet the requirements of the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act, Dr. Arthur Palamara said.
But with reams of complicated regulations to understand and implement, many fear
that compliance will leave them with little time for treating patients.
http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2002/02/25/story4.html


The Atlantic Monthly Feb 2002
Losing the Code War
by Stephen Budiansky
Within days of the September 11 attacks U.S. intelligence agencies were being blamed in many quarters for their failure to detect the terrorists' plans in advance. Mistakes in the formulation and execution of intelligence policy were no doubt made. Yet there is no one to blame for what is probably by far the greatest setback in recent years to American capabilities for keeping tabs on terrorists: the fact that it is now virtually impossible to break the encrypted communication systems that PCs and the Internet have made available to everyone—including, apparently, al Qaeda. The real culprits behind this intelligence failing are the advance of technology and the laws of mathematics.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/02/budiansky.htm



Washington Post 02/26/02
New Breed: Medical Family Trees Get Smarter
By Suz Redfearn
Recent scientific advances have changed the time-honored exercise of creating a medical family tree. But they haven't changed that fact that your health – even your life – could depend on having one.
Also known as a pedigree (yes, that's right, you needn't be a social climber to have one), a medical family tree is a visual representation of your family health history – the information your doctor once extracted from you via questionnaire or a harried office visit. But with the genetics revolution upon us, more people are compiling medical pedigrees themselves, say tree promoters, well before any doctor's visit.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A996-2002Feb25.html


Washington Times-Herald 02/26/02
Storage choice questioned by employees
By Linda Perry Staff Writer
Attorney Harry Hanson, representing Daviess County Commissioners on Monday,
explained some changes to a lease agreement between commissioners and Pacran, Inc.
a company owned by county attorney Jeff Hayes and his law partner, Tim Dant. The
lease concerns the county renting storage space on the upper level of the Hayes and
Dant Law Firm building at E. VanTrees and N.E. Third streets.
http://www.zwire.com/news/newsstory.cfm?news...PAG=461&CATNAME=Top%20Stories&CATEGORYID=410



National Public Radio 02/26/02
Caves a Cornerstone of U.S. Security Effort
Underground, Workers Screen Applicants for War-on-Terror Jobs
by Pam Fessler
Feb. 26, 2002 -- Deep in a mountain an hour north of Pittsburgh, in the caverns and
corridors of a former limestone mine, U.S. government employees and contractors are working overtime at what could be the most unique office space in America.
At the Iron Mountain/National Underground Storage facility, workers are racing to complete background checks on thousands of new employees needed for the war on terrorism, including airport screeners, border guards and federal air marshals. NPR's Pam Fessler got a rare look inside the secure facility; for All Things
Considered, Fessler reports.
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/feb/cave_archive/020226.cave_archive.html



Memphis Commercial-Appeal 02/27/02
Govs cool to standardized driver license
By James W. Brosnan
brosnanj@shns.com
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said Sunday that states should adopt more uniform standards to keep driver's licenses out of the hands of illegal aliens and foreign visitors who have overstayed their visas.
http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/nation_and_world/article/0,1426,MCA_454_1002019,00.html



New York Times 02/28/02
Rescuing Memories
Trapped in Old Film
By MICHELLE SLATALLA
fter my mother moved north and married, she missed her hometown in Kentucky so much that my father decided to recreate it in our basement.
In the 1960's he built a scale model of Martin, Ky., as big as a room, with mountains formed from chicken wire and plaster. In the valley, he built a tiny version of
Main Street, with the five-and-dime and the Hob Nob Cafe, which my great-grandmother used to run.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/technology/circuits/28SHOP.html



Washington Post 03/02/02
Clinton Official Approved Tribe's Status After Term Ended
By Robert Gehrke
Associated Press
Three days after leaving office, a Clinton administration official sat in his car outside his former workplace and signed documents granting a group of American Indians status as a tribe, a federal investigation has determined.
The paperwork for the Duwamish tribe outside Seattle was signed Jan. 22, 2001, by Michael Anderson, the acting head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A BIA staffer then stamped the document with the date Jan. 19, 2001 -- Anderson's last day on the job.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26505-2002Mar1.html


Washington Post 03/02/01
Md. Bill Would Expand DNA Database
Supporters Want Sample From Anyone Convicted of Felony
By Daniel LeDuc
Maryland lawmakers are proposing to vastly expand the number of criminals who would be required to provide DNA samples to a state databank.
Yesterday, a House committee considered legislation that would require anyone convicted of a felony to submit a DNA sample to a state depository. Under current law, samples are required only from people convicted of violent crimes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26094-2002Mar1.html





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