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Orlando Sentinel
FSU seeks memorabilia to keep WWII history alive
By Nancy Imperiale | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted May 31, 2004
Bullets were whizzing by when Bernard Sterno leapt
from the plane over Normandy.
The 22-year-old paratrooper was about to meet the
enemy.
"I landed in a little section in a corner of a field" behind
the lines, Sterno recalls. "We were running into
different groups of Germans. . . . We threw hand
grenades over there. . . . And we heard screams and
all. We didn't go into the area. I know we killed a lot."
Sterno's experiences on June 6, 1944, and in battles
afterward will stay with him for the rest of his life. "I was
lucky," recalls the 82-year-old Davenport man, who
saw many of his fellow soldiers die. "I was lucky all the
way through."
And historians feel lucky to hear the memories of
veterans such as Sterno. They're in a race to collect
more.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-asecddayfsu31053104may31,1,1021096.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
http://snipurl.com/6sch
Los Angeles Times
May 31, 2004
Viewfinders Keepers: Images of Bygone Era Found in Attic
Prints attributed to Dorothea Lange, renowned chronicler of state's migrant workers in 1930s, turn up in Thousand Oaks.
By Steve Chawkins, Times Staff Writer
Gene Lore had no idea that the images of desperation tucked away in his Thousand
Oaks attic could be so enriching.
There were photographs of pea pickers and cotton pickers, caved-in men with
hung-down heads, women with worried eyes, children clinging to their skirts.
Families stood in fields and sat by shacks, looking as worn out as the cars that had
carried them from nowhere good to someplace worse.
Dating from the mid-1930s, the photographs were shot by Dorothea Lange, the
renowned chronicler of migrant workers in California, experts say. If Lore's sister
hadn't been poking through a cabinet stuffed with their father's old papers, the rare
photos eventually would have wound up in the trash.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-lange31may31,1,7117128.story?
Daily Herald
How a daughter connected with her mother's military past
By Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Monday, May 31, 2004
http://www.dailyherald.com/news_story.asp?intid=3813841
Washington Post
Common Sense and Computer Analysis
By Heather Mac Donald
Monday, May 31, 2004; Page A23
Irrational paranoia about computer technology threatens to shut down an entire front in the
war on terror.
A prestigious advisory panel has just recommended that the Defense Department get
permission from a federal court any time it wants to use computer analysis on its own
intelligence files. It would be acceptable, according to the panel, for a human agent to pore
over millions of intelligence records looking for al Qaeda suspects who share phone
numbers, say, and have traveled to terror haunts in South America. But program a
computer to make that same search, declares the advisory committee, and judicial approval
is needed, because computer analysis of intelligence databanks allegedly violates "privacy."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3521-2004May30.htm
The News Journal
Schools, city attempt to go paperless
Laptops save money, help improve access
By MELISSA TYRRELL
Staff reporter
05/31/2004
Twenty years ago, the sight of nine suburban school officials huddled around laptop
computers would have seemed a scene from a bad sci-fi film.
But for Appoquinimink and Capital board members, pointing and clicking through
online agendas is now the norm.
Both districts as well as the city of Dover are moving to completely computerized
meetings with agendas, reports and minutes posted online. Now board members, with
laptops in front of them, follow documents together online, with a big-screen
projection of reports for the public to follow. The public often can read reports to be
discussed three or four days before the meeting, making them more prepared for
public discussions.
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/05/31schools,cityatt.html
The Telegraph
Virtual immortality for Britain's war dead
(Filed: 31/05/2004)
'Basher' Bates, VC, takes his place with war poets
Owen and Brooke in a new computer archive that will
be available to the public. Nicole Martin reports
The individual stories and records of Britain's war dead are
to be preserved in a new computer archive.
It will contain personal records of some of the most
illustrious names in English literature, including the war
poets Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, and recount the
battlefield heroism of ordinary soldiers.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/31/ndday31.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/31/ixnewstop.html
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Posted on Mon, May. 31, 2004
Protect open court records
Hoosiers_ right to learn the contents of lawsuit settlements are threatened by a U.S. Senate bill that is receiving a high priority from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. The Senate should pass an amendment that would allow citizens access to lawsuit settlements or, better yet, reject the entire bill.
The bill constitutes an attempt by corporations to limit class-action lawsuits in areas of law ranging from civil rights to environmental protection, consumer product safety and workplace safety. Attempts to limit the right of citizens to hold corporations accountable for business practices that harm the public interest should be viewed skeptically. The misnamed Class Action Fairness Act deserves special attention for allowing big businesses to deny the public access to legal settlements and court documents containing details of corporate wrongdoing.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/8804502.htm
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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