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19991115 
Commentary - "Real privacy." RealNetworks was spying on its customers. -ZDNet 19991109 "Honesty is the best policy: RealNetworks is the latest company to expose personal data but escape action by TRUSTe. Does the privacy watchdog ever bite?" -By Kaitlin Quistgaard -Salon 19991107 "New Real [RealNetworks] privacy flaw." -BBC /News 19991102 "Real [.com] sorry after privacy row." ... "A US security expert, Richard Smith, found that the software secretly transmitted to the company's headquarters details about what music each customer listens to and how many songs are copied. The information sent includes a serial number that could be used to identify an individual." ... "Some experts even called the company's music software a "Trojan horse," a malicious computer code that promises to perform one function as a cover for other unwanted activities." -BBC /News 19991031 "The RealJukeBox monitoring system." -By Richard M. Smith -ComputerBytesMan.com 19991013 "New Internet could carry privacy risks." ... "The new address scheme, called "IPv6," would not become widely used for years but ultimately would affect every Internet user." -BBC /News 19990624 
"Wars of the future... today." -By Tom Regan -CSMonitor/buy 19990621 CLONING NEWS
"Dolly's Legacy: Nuclear transfer--used to clone Dolly and now owned by Geron [Corporation]--may help scientists develop more potent stem-cell therapies." -ScientificAmerican.com
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"Richard Shelby Is No Robin Hood." ... "Shortly before the Memorial Day recess, [Alabama Republican] Senator Richard Shelby started to pick the pockets of both California and New York State. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly to impose the Alabama Senator's 12.5 percent ceiling on what any one state can receive of the annual total of Federal rapid-transit aid. That would siphon off some $200 million to $300 million that would ordinarily go to New York or California in fiscal 2000 and redistribute it in equal shares to the other 48 states for mass transit." ... "Without these subways, commuter rail lines, light rail systems and buses, major metropolitan areas in both states would choke on highway congestion." ... "Mr. Shelby's Transit Equity Provision pretends to champion fairness even as it steals money from overburdened transit systems and distributes it to states that may not have matching funds or projects ready to carry out. But ''fairness'' cuts many ways. In fiscal 1997, by one analysis, New York delivered $14.2 billion more in taxes to Washington [DC, United States Capital] than it received in aid, and California delivered $11.8 billion more. Mr. Shelby's Alabama, on the other hand, was the beneficiary of $6.9 billion more in aid than it gave Washington in taxes. Is it ''fair'' to make these imbalances even greater?" -NYTimes19990503
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"Mom-orabilia: Mother's Day history from Rhea to the soccer mom." ... "As Mother's Day comes around again in the United States, 88 years after President Woodrow Wilson made it a national holiday, news of motherhood is often focused on celebrity moms." ... "But such famous contempo-moms aside, people have celebrated mothers and motherhood since ancient times in Greece. There, the focus of Hellenistic hoorays was Rhea, mother of the gods. She was honored as a subject of worship and festivals." ... "In the 17th century, the English paid tribute to their mums on Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent." ... "[In the US] As surviving Union and Confederate soldiers went home after the Civil War, community tensions were predictably high. So in the summer of 1965 [sic 1865], Anna Jarvis organized a Mothers' Friendship Day event at the courthouse in Pruntytown [West Virginia]." ... "By 1923, [Anna Jarvis's daughter, Anna Jarvis] she was filing lawsuits trying to stop celebrations of Mother's Day. She felt the observance she'd begun had been turned into a commercial exploitation." -By Cathryn Meurer -CNN
19990129
"Launching a 'homeland' defense: To protect itself from terrorism, United States embarks on protection program reminiscent of early cold-war days." -By Jonathan S. Landay-CSMonitor
