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Soon after her death, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which oversees public transportation in the area, released internal documents to show it had tried for more than eight years to get the mall owners, the Syracuse-based Pyramid Companies, to allow the No. 6 bus to stop in the mall's parking lot. A Pyramid official blames the N.F.T.A. for not moving the bus stop to a safer spot on the mall's perimeter. But a former owner of a shoe store at the Galleria came forward to say that in his lease negotiations with the mall, a Pyramid official...
...Mike Godwin, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group. Mr. Godwin was referring to a recent divorce lawsuit brought by a Mr. John F. Goydan against his wife after discovering she was exchanging steamy e-mail correspondences with a man known on the net as "The Weasel." Mr. Goydan lost his case...
...advertisement line by exaggerating the significance of a few selected studies to the point where the public receives an unbalanced and potentially dangerous view of the present state of knowledge." Singled out for special condemnation was the best-selling book The Melatonin Miracle, which, Turek wrote, "clearly crosses the frontier of scientific objectivity...
...sooner had the new Prime Minister been installed in office than Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition New Frontier Party, denounced the ruling coalition as an "illicit cohabitation" and demanded an election for a new Diet, Japan's parliament. The motion was denied, but elections will have to be held by the summer of 1997, although some analysts expect them as soon as this April. How much and how fast Japan transforms itself will be determined by the victor. But regardless of who wins, the campaign will be unlike any Japan has ever seen...
John Perry Barlow, a former Grateful Dead lyricist, co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends civil liberties in cyberspace. He lives in Wyoming and New York and at barlow@eff.org