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Instead of cataloguing books, many librarians now spend much of their day shredding business records so that the government can’t get its hands on them. These librarians are protesting the PATRIOT Act, a consortium of legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, which has enlarged the federal government’s powers in the fight against terrorism. The powers granted by the PATRIOT Act are set to expire in 2005. But if Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, gets his way, protesting librarians may have much shredding ahead of them...
FANDANGO Formed in 2000 by a consortium of movie exhibi-tors, it has an efficient voice-recognition system. But the prompts can be confusing: the service doesn't even say you've reached Fandango until three steps in. Call time: 4 min. 30 sec. Web time...
More than 600 three-person teams worldwide participated in the annual contest, which the non-profit Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications ran early last month...
...Ballbeam, a.k.a. Beans, was arguably the most distinctive third of the already inimitable Anti-Pop Consortium. Fans of the recently-split hip-hop trio can rejoice, as Beans has returned with a full-length solo debut that extends upon the group’s starkly experimental beats and rhymes...
...survey, conducted by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE), is legitimate—and marks the first attempt in recent history to gather feedback from undergraduates nationwide...