Boston Globe Online

''To say my son is legally responsible for his own abuse at the hands of this monster Shanley when my son was only 6 years old is horrific,'' Rodney Ford, the father of Gregory Ford, said in an interview. In the lawsuit, the Fords charge that Law was negligent in overseeing Shanley, who he knew, or should have known, was a danger to children.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 02:32 PM

USTR - Intellectual Property - 2002 Special 301 Report - Priority Foreign Country

The U.S. Government withdrew benefits from Ukraine under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in August 2001, and imposed $75 million worth of sanctions on Ukrainian imports on January 23, 2002, based on the repeated failure of Ukraine to comply with the June 2000 Joint Action Plan. Ukraine unfortunately enacted an unsatisfactory optical disk (OD) law in February 2002. The U.S. Government has worked with industry to develop an approach to improve the actual enforcement of copyright protection even with this inadequate OD law. To that end, the United States, in cooperation with Ukraine and industry officials, has developed a set of ten regulations to be implemented to improve the inadequate OD law. We hope to see Ukraine implement the substance of these regulations soon and follow up with strict enforcement of the current OD law. At the same time, the United States remains committed to working with Ukraine to address the remaining deficiencies in the existing OD law and thereby work toward reestablishing normal trade relations.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 01:06 PM

Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre

Few people outside the party's inner circles were aware of her existence until after the war, when her death, alongside Hitler in their Berlin bunker, was announced. Hitler had married her 36 hours before. She would leave behind instructions to her sister, Ilse, to burn some of her papers, her dressmaker's bills. She did not want to go down in history as a shopaholic - the only sin, Sibylle writes, that she was aware of committing. Apart from these few facts she is a void.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 01:00 PM

CBC News

"Over 35 million people living in the Great Lakes basin get their drinking water from the Great Lakes and I venture to guess they will not appreciate the fact that nuclear waste is being shipped across their drinking water," said Kucinich.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 12:40 PM

politechbot.com: Text of misleading anti-cloning ad by Bill Kristol's group

HARRIET: Look, if they were really interested in cures, they'd be talking about adult stem cell research, which shows far more promise -- not creating embryos to destroy them for medical experiments.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 12:26 PM

"The Rise of the Creative Class" by Richard Florida

The key to economic growth lies not just in the ability to attract the creative class, but to translate that underlying advantage into creative economic outcomes in the form of new ideas, new high-tech businesses and regional growth. To better gauge these capabilities, I developed a new measure called the Creativity Index (column 1). The Creativity Index is a mix of four equally weighted factors: the creative class share of the workforce (column 2 shows the percentage; column 3 ranks cities accordingly); high-tech industry, using the Milken Institute's widely accepted Tech Pole Index, which I refer to as the High-Tech Index (column 4); innovation, measured as patents per capita (column 5); and diversity, measured by the Gay Index, a reasonable proxy for an area's openness to different kinds of people and ideas (column 6). This composite indicator is a better measure of a region's underlying creative capabilities than the simple measure of the creative class, because it reflects the joint effects of its concentration and of innovative economic outcomes.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 11:40 AM

From The Globe and Mail

"Our guess is the amount he owes to the Canadian-owned publishing sector is between $4- and $5-million," said Jack David, publisher of Toronto-based ECW Press, which turns out more than 50 books a year.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 10:21 AM

Google Search:

This is a Windows VBScript I created to remove the click-through End-User License Agreements from retail software I install. EULAs are getting unacceptably intrusive and restrictive, and I for one have had enough. In my opinion, manufacturers have no business putting extra restrictions on how I use something after I have already paid for it. While this script is no great programming achievement, its purpose is twofold: (1) to make a point about the absurdity of hidden "agreements" that buyers cannot know about until after sale, and (2) to be able to honestly say that I never accepted any EULA, and thus my use of the software is limited only by copyright law, just like a book or a CD.

Posted by GeeTee at May 01, 2002 10:13 AM