20010531
"FTC
Powerless to Protect Privacy"
-By Jeffrey Benner -Wired
20010530
"Will
privacy become as extinct as the dodo?"
-CSMonitor
20010529
Iowa
Senator Tom Harkin may become the new Senate Agriculture Committee chairman.
-CNN
20010528
"What
If Napster Were Based in China? Might this be the
end of proprietary intellectual property as we know it?" -By
Michael Schrage
+IM News+
"Who's
reading your instant messages?"
-CNN
20010522
"New
Software Lets Parents Track Kids" -AP via AOL via
Slashdot - DISCUSSION
20010520
"New
Hope For Cancer: This little pill targets cancer
cells with uncanny precision. Is it the breakthrough we've been waiting
for?" By Michael D. Lemonick and Alice Park -TIME
20010518
"Company
Must Pay Attorney Fees In Chat Room Speech Case"
In California, Anti-SLAPP laws protect free speech (Strategic Litigation
Against Public Participation). -Newsbytes
Opinion: "How
the government will track you down" Cell phone users
locations will be tracked with increasing accuracy.
-ZDNet>News
20010516
.Libraries
given temporary reprieve from censoring with filters
-AP via FindLaw>LegalNews
20010514
"The
No-Book Report: Skim It and Weep: More and
More Americans Who Can Read Are Choosing Not To. Can We Afford to Write
Them Off?" -By Linton Weeks -WashingtonPost
20010513
"Public
laws owned by the public? Think again, copyright rulings show"
-UnionTrib -via Slashdot-
>discussion--
"California
gas artificially overpriced" -Salon/-news/-wire
20010509
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Mother's-Day
-
Transportation
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Vermont
"Mothers
who work on Mother's Day." ... "Michaela Ells likes
to go on long drives with her husband. Nothing unusual for many women.
But when the distance is 3,000 miles, it's not your average Sunday drive."
... "Mrs. Ells is a truck driver from Bellows Falls, Vt. [Vermont] She
and her husband, Bill, haul everything from brush bristles to maple syrup.
They met at truck-driving school, after one instructor complained: "I can't
get her to shift right. I give up. You try." So Mr. Ells did. They hit
it off and soon married. Now they are one of only a handful of husband-wife,
long-haul trucker couples in the United States." ... "What sets this couple
apart is that they sometimes take Morgan, their 4-1/2-year-old daughter,
along." ... "Mother's Day isn't a big deal to Ells. She says she and her
husband acknowledge it, but don't do anything big. Still, she never forgets
her own mom, wishing her a happy Mother's Day via fax, phone, or e-mail."
-By Lane Hartill -CSMonitor
20010502
"Court
Weighs Whether Code Is Free Speech: Appeal
continues on copyright law vs. DeCSS descrambling code."
-By Scarlet Pruitt
-pcworld
"Complaint
filed with the EEOC against the Minneapolis Public Library.
Re: allegation that policy of unrestricted Internet access creates a sexually
hostile work environment in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights
Act." -Fax from the Halagan Law Firm via
-TechLawJournal