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AP via Yahoo! News, Tue, 08 May 2007 8:42 PM PDT
Atty: Former lab worker to be charged
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070509/ap_on_re_us/los_alamos_documents_2
The former Los Alamos National Laboratory worker who took secret data
home will
face a single misdemeanor charge of negligent handling of classified
documents,
her lawyer said Tuesday.
Lexington Herald-Leader, Wed, 09 May 2007 0:09 AM PDT
Family feud over debt linked to note by Lincoln
http://www.kentucky.com/263/story/64738.html
When he found a handwritten filing with the signature "A. Lincoln"
while digging
through an old box, Ron Elliot suspected he had found a long-lost piece
of
history.
La Crosse Tribune, Wed, 09 May 2007 10:01 PM PDT
Long-lost county map found
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/05/10/news/z1map10.txt
In the La Crosse city engineer?s office, stuffed in a plastic bag atop
some
shelves, was a hidden treasure: an original
13WHAM Rochester, Tue, 08 May 2007 4:21 PM PDT
High-Tech Film Preservation at Eastman House
<<http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=961856a0-38b7-46
f5-9e01-bef729cadfa2&rss=102>>
Rochester, N.Y. -?To help keep the art of film restoration alive, the
George
Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film has created
the first
school of film preservation...
Orlando Sentinel, Sun, 13 May 2007 1:27 AM PDT
Last letters attract cachet, cash
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-famousletters07may13,0,970812.story?track=rss
British explorer Robert Falcon Scott wrote his final letter while
huddled in a
tent at the South Pole in 1912. It was 70 degrees below zero, a storm
was
gathering force outside, and he was 11 miles from his supply camp. The
letter
began, "To my widow."
Billings Gazette, Tue, 08 May 2007 12:40 PM PDT
MEIC files lawsuit over access to drafts of public documents
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/05/08/news/state/53-sue.txt
GREAT FALLS - The Montana Environmental Information Center has filed a
lawsuit
alleging the state's Public Records Act is unconstitutional because it
allows
municipal governments to withhold draft documents from the public.
Computer Weekly, Thu, 10 May 2007 8:01 AM PDT
Storage retrieval strategies: Retrieving data from archives
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/05/10/223763/storage-retrieval-strategies-retrieving-data-from-archives.htm
Some of the key issues involved with retrieving data from archives,
such as data
security, indexing and searching, and data retention.
Indian Express via Yahoo! India News, Fri, 11 May 2007 2:32 PM PDT
Case of the torn files http://in.news.yahoo.com/070511/48/6focg.html
KHAN s DEFENCE : Azam Khan denied that any official documents had been
destroyed
in his office, he said he was the only minister who was known for not
keeping
files with himself for more than a day or two. No files are pending,
then why I
would want to destroy any document? he asked. GOVERNOR ACTS : Taking
cognisance
of the news, state Governor T V Rajeswar directed Chief Secretary
Shambhu Nath
Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News, Fri, 11 May 2007 4:00 PM PDT
Laws Governing Data Retention Face Technologies That Ax Data
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070511/bs_ibd_ibd/2007511tech
One new product eliminates traces of communications. Another new
product gives
people an e-mail address that vanishes in 10 minutes. Products that ax
data
records are emerging -- even as laws to retain such data are being
strengthened.
AP via Yahoo! News, Sun, 13 May 2007 1:47 PM PDT
Methods of opening Nazi archive weighed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070513/ap_on_re_eu/nazi_archive_4
As the Third Reich headed to defeat in World War II, the Germans burned
millions
of records to cover up history's worst genocide. But the fraction that
survived
was enough to make up the largest Nazi archive in existence.
AP via Yahoo! News, Mon, 14 May 2007 11:10 AM PDT
Commission mulls Nazi archive timeline
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070514/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_nazi_archive_2
The commission controlling millions of wartime Nazi records began work
Monday on
a timetable for making the historical trove available to researchers,
but
Holocaust survivors complained their own access to the documents may
still be
restricted.
Coshocton Tribune, Mon, 14 May 2007 5:05 AM PDT
Aging archives, technology pose threat to records
http://www.coshoctontribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070514/LIFESTYLE/70514002
Today?s technology has proved to be a double-edged sword: There?s no
dispute
that it has improved our lives, but it also has caused us to lose
history as
fast as we make it.
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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