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That was the question on my mind after reading about the "New York Times Capsule" last Sunday. On the face of it, the concept of a millennial time capsule sounds simple enough: Create a vessel--sealed with late-20th century artifacts--with instructions that it should be opened no earlier than the year...
Carol Carmichael, project manager for Y2K efforts at University Information Systems (UIS), knows this better than most. She and her husband, and a team of 30 UIS staff members, will ring in the New Year from UIS Headquarters at 1730 Cambridge...
Preparations have been extensive--staff members have been identifying and fixing systems as well as ensuring that all outside vendors are equally Y2K-compliant. Now Carmichael says UIS has finalized its contingency plans and is ready to greet the new year...
...drastically reduce the number of medical errors perpetrated each year, which the NAS report listed as causing upwards of 98,000 deaths and nearly $9 billion in extra costs each year. The report included a comprehensive plan for halving those numbers within five years, including the creation of a new federal agency, at a cost of about $100 million per annum...
...waves of panic emanating Tuesday from a meeting of international business and legal executives in London. The conclusions from the conference, organized to address issues affecting international commerce, led the director of the FBI's national infrastructure center to dire postulations. "Companies and private-sector entities are the new targets for terrorism and acts of war," he told Reuters. Internet crime, he added, is spreading rapidly and will affect everyone...