Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, the Union's refurbishment touched off protests by alumni, who demanded it instead be preserved as a historical site...
...Social Security Administration shut down a portion of its Website that showed taxpayers' earnings and benefits. All an ex-spouse or divorce attorney needed to do was punch in five items: name, Social Security number, mother's maiden name, birth date and birthplace. After USA Today publicized the site last month, it was besieged with up to 80 requests a second. Two days later it was shut down...
Recently, for instance, he learned that Indiana University had a database open to the Net that listed the names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, research qualifications and job titles of 2,760 faculty members. Roberts grabbed it and published portions on his own site, along with a press release. University officials were not amused. They took the database off line, of course, and sicced the authorities on Roberts, who agreed to take his off line as well. Curiously, though, no one ever asked him to erase the data, which still reside on his home computer. "The only time people care...
...Nixon--who plans to run for the U.S. Senate in 1998--has taken the fight a step further, contending that Global Casino's operators broke the law by letting a Missouri citizen wager on their site, even though the computers that take the bets are on the Caribbean island of Grenada. No dice, says Lawrence Hirsch, general counsel for I.G.C. "There is no law on the books anyplace," he says flatly, "that prohibits us from doing what...
...Some 8,000 miners, mostly of European origin, rushed in. By 1870, Chinese miners were staking claims or purchasing or leasing them. In 1881 Hop Lee, of the Hong Lee Tong, signed a lease for a placer claim at the junction of Mores and Granite creeks. It is this site, opened in 1995 (with Simon's participation), to which the Tuckers are returning next month to take up shovels, trowels, whisk brooms and sifting screens...