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Companies have the legal right to monitor their employees' Web surfing, e-mail and instant messaging. Many do, whether they warn their workers or not--so don't count on any of it remaining private. Last month the University of Tennessee released more than 900 pages of archived e-mail between an administrator and a married college president in which the administrator wrote of her love for him and of her use of drugs and alcohol to deal with her unhappiness. Employers, including the New York Times and Dow Chemical, have fired workers for sending inappropriate e-mail...
Instead of cell phones, many deaf people use instant messaging and pagers set to vibrate rather than beep. "A few hours after the body was found," says Goldenbaum, "everyone [in deaf America] knew. They knew in California. They knew in New York." And shortly afterward they knew that Minch, who had been in New Hampshire, could not have committed the crime...
...instant on Feb. 13 in the school auditorium when police interpreters signed the news of Joseph Mesa's arrest to the entire campus body, the yell of relief was so loud that junior Ron Rood says, "I felt for that moment that I was hearing." Then there was a silence as the crowd considered the friend and classmate who police said had admitted double homicide. Son of a U.S. Army chief warrant officer, Mesa is a native of Guam. He was an enthusiastic athlete in high school; the Washington Post noted that when he was a school wrestler...
...works, the venture could introduce a new Internet business model to China, one that combines content with services like chat and instant messaging, as well as online access. For AOL, which already has a presence in 17 countries, the venture is its most ambitious in Asia. China is potentially the world's largest Internet market, but so far Net companies aren't finding it profitable. The partners haven't ruled out buying a controlling stake in one of the country's troubled portals. But for now, the idea is that Legend's PCs will be sold Internet-ready...
...major blow to the National Rifle Association, the Court dismissed without comment the organization?s challenge to the FBI?s system of keeping records on gun buyers. The NRA appealed a lower court?s ruling that the Justice Department could continue keeping information gathered from instant background checks on file for six months, rather than discarding it immediately, as the NRA requested. Because the Justices chose not to rule on this case, the federal appeals court decision will stand...