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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.htm
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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_arc

hive.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
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