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...this digital age, keeping control over content is important," he said. "I will be help to acquire and protect [the Business School's] intellectual assets, books and journal articles, and see that nobody infringes on these copyrights...
...schools without affronting those who run them is a delicate enterprise. And the K-16 movement has spawned more than its share of bruised egos and snubbed feelings on both sides. After a committee chaired by Georgia State University Provost Ron Henry spent months drafting a list of academic-content standards, not a single school district adopted it. Instead, the Atlanta school district drew up its own, albeit similar, guidelines. Says Peyton Williams, the deputy state superintendent of schools: "There's a quiet kind of resistance...
...deserves better than the rushed hatchet job Carroll delivers in attempting to maintain his focus on Catholicism. And the author, a former priest and staunch left-wing Catholic who offers his work "as my personal penance to God, to the Jewish dead and to my children," is not content just to document the stain on his church. He sees anti-Semitism as intimately entwined with issues of Catholic power and authority, and devotes his last 70 pages to a call for a "Vatican Council III" to pursue such measures as choosing bishops by popular vote...
...work: watch out for PORNSweeper. This menacingly named software scans image files on company servers, looking for such clues as a suspicious abundance of pink pixels. It even measures the ratio of skin color to other colors to estimate how much clothing the image contains. The software, which developer Content Technologies markets to corporate technology departments, also includes "face detection," so close-ups won't be mistaken for pinups. Still, you may want to refrain from sending baby pictures to the office...
...analog voting equipment (and meanwhile added a 1950s term, punch-card "chad," to our lexicon). The cable-TV pundits made their dependable racket and protesters filled the South Florida streets, but as the votes were recounted and Gore contested Bush's apparent victory, the public remained admirably patient--content to let this truly important episode play out. Our frivolous, sometimes hysterical age proved that it is still capable of serious thought...