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Abstracts: Rules of engineering projects. The reason we're here. The demon under Hawaii
Abstracts: Run for the IRE board. Scrutiny at America's nursing homes: getting beyond the obvious. Corporate welfare: IRE Resource Center stories you can use
Abstracts: Running aground. Schools: Superintendents profit by consulting for firms that want schools' business. Sweet sorrow: Mexican candies imported with high lead content; investigation shows officials to act
Abstracts: Salaries, Perks, and Pensions: Public Retirements: poor oversight of fund, ignoring or rewriting rules dumps shortfall on citizens
Abstracts: Sanctions give records laws teeth. Regional transportation authority not subject to D.C. FOI law. States move to open access to records
Abstracts: Scarce skills and scattered substitutes. Child, village and bug. A fragile cornerstone
Abstracts: Scarce skills and scattered substitutes. King of the hill (no matter what). Cold fusion conundrum
Abstracts: Schools with data for sale. Dump debacle. Trouble in schools: Learning curve
Abstracts: Science fiction and myth creation in our age. Religious institutions in Spanish science fiction. Generations and controversies: an overview of Japanese science fiction, 1957-1997
Abstracts: Science fiction around the world. America's blueprint for Mars: the report of the Synthesis Group. Mission to Utah: A science fiction writer's adventures at the Mars Society Desert Research Station
Abstracts: Science fiction in academe. On science fiction in college. Teaching science fiction
Abstracts: Seafood safety. Managing the reporting process includes self-imposed hurdles. Fundamentalism: Knowing history, culture help in tracking paper, people trails
Abstracts: Secrecy obstructs reporting. Reviewing timecards for double-dipping police. Kids in confinement: time-out room abuses exposed
Abstracts: Secret deals of HMOs. Land scandals by the sea. Mismanaged care: Newsday finds dangerous doctors on directories of New York's top HMOs
Abstracts: Secret weapons. Evolution and ethics. The efficiency trap
Abstracts: Security experts see tough months ahead in Iraq. Defense agency rushing new technology to Iraq. Container security initiative may expand to mideast
Abstracts: Seeing the animal: Colonial space and movement in Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim". Superfluity and suction: the problem with saving in The Mill on the Floss
Abstracts: Seeking truth in Croatia. Covert newsgathering tactics: debating deceptions. Six openings on board
Abstracts: 'Segregate and block' law struck down: cable operators cannot regulate public, educational channels. News media alert: summary of proposals introduced in the 102nd Congress that would close 'sensitive' Senate committee hearings, open settlements in suits against the government, increase fees for public information, and allow local governments to regulate cable television
Abstracts: 'Seinfeld' quiz book violates producers' copyrights in show. 'Son of Sam' royalties law violates First Amendment
Abstracts: Senate committee tries to move US-Russian project forward. Crawley appointed to Orbital 's board. Orbital Sciences to launch first U.S. antimissile booster
Abstracts: Senate fined for failing to disclose member's printing, postage expenses; candidate complained incumbents had unfair advantage
Abstracts: Senators want study of UAVs patrolling homeland. Homeland security officials tout UAVs. Global Hawk scouts ahead for other UAVs
Abstracts: Senators would merge MEADS, Patriot program. Comanche's looking up but now comes the crunch. Going to Iraq? Be prepared
Abstracts: Sensytech gets first award for submarine antenna. Dynamics research negotiates FCS role. Primagraphics wins electric boat graphics work
Abstracts: Sex, bombs spur furor over public access. Courts experiment with online access, fee issues. Prisoners, soldiers fare differently on access to explicit magazines
Abstracts: Sexual abuse case record unsealed on appeal. Efforts to make sealing records easier thwarted; Judicial Conference returns proposed rule to committee
Abstracts: Sforza Oddi and the commedia grave: setting the stage for Shakespeare. Humoral psychology in Shakespeare's 'Henriad.'
Abstracts: Shakespeare's Italian dream: Cinquecento sources for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' Sforza Oddi and the commedia grave: setting the stage for Shakespeare
Abstracts: Sheriff resells criminals' guns: a look at how murder weapons end up back on the street. After Columbine
Abstracts: Shield law does not apply if reporter is witness. Reporter protected in shield law's first test. Shield law passes in Florida; S.C. assembly weighs bill
Abstracts: Ship loan guarantees prone to fraud: GAO. A-10 pilots say upgrades reduce fratricide risk. Chinese build-up targets U.S. forces in Taiwan Straits
Abstracts: Silver fork writers and readers: social contexts of a best seller. Publisher has no duty to warn readers of accuracy of information
Abstracts: Simula to develop, manufacture Comanche seats. URS continues work for Army Forces Command. ATK wins missile defense work
Abstracts: Single stage to infinity! What engineers know. Manufacturing magic
Abstracts: 'Sinnekins' and the vice: prolegomena. 'The Middle Cornish Interlude:' genre and tradition. A previously unknown 'Ordo Prophetarum' in a manuscript fragment in Zagreb
Abstracts: Six terror-war veterans to be honored. Dems would equip 300 airliners with antimissile systems. Aircraft poised to strike chem-bio launchers
Abstracts: Slow starters: journalists now should take quick study of when they are entitled to expedited review; father of Dodi Al Fayed took a lead in asserting rights under a 1996 amendment to federal law
Abstracts: Soldier son. Six months on: What I have learned about grief. High, low, everywhere you go
Abstracts: Son of Sam law unconstitutional. Rules limit access to death row inmates. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Legislative Update
Abstracts: Space newspeak or kill the countdown! The moon pyramid. Intermittents
Abstracts: Space profits. The voice of authority. Slowboat to the stars!
Abstracts: Special-ops sub is up to spec: General. Despite success, plans for thermobaric weapons unclear. Foreign gear aids Iraq campaign, general says
Abstracts: Spreading the word. The other side of borderless. Interesting research
Abstracts: SPX acquires GenMech. General Dynamics completes acquisition of Veridian. Lockheed Martin to acquire Titan Corporation
Abstracts: SPX acquires GenMech. GKN acquires Pilkington Aerospace. Teledyne Technologies acquires Tekmar
Abstracts: Staging a staged crisis in masculinity: race and masculinity in 'Six Degrees of Separation'. Reworking the frontier captivity narratrive: William Vaughn Moody's 'The Great Divide'
Abstracts: Staging a staged crisis in masculinity: race and masculinity in 'Six Degrees of Separation'. part 2 "More stories than the Devil got sinners": Troy's stories in August Wilson's 'Fences'
Abstracts: Staging 'L'Omme Pecheur' and 'The Castle of Perseverance.' Meyerhold meets Mei Lanfang: staging the grotesque and the beautiful
Abstracts: State allows release of some material from teacher's letters. Kentucky closes complaints about counselor
Abstracts: State, Commerce announce limit on new satellites over Israel. For reporters confronted by police, some common sense tips
Abstracts: State court orders school to release response to probe. Conviction for theft of information affirmed. Conyers calls for opening policy papers
Abstracts: State high court sets standard for sealing warrants. Access to records cannot be denied over general 'embarrassment'
Abstracts: State registry. Grant money: Access to state operations reveals spending run amok. Uncivil servants: getting records on state employee discipline requires significant test of public records law
Abstracts: State's FOI officer escapes court sanctions. Court says CIA almost exempt from FOIA. Court orders round-the-clock access to jail log
Abstracts: States look for ways to open more government information: electronic access high on agenda, but privacy concerns close DMV, state worker records
Abstracts: States restrict media access to prisons: federal magistrate finds Abu-Jamal ban violated rights. States restrict data on drivers, victims, some meetings; sex offender data, juvenile courts, computer databases see more openness
Abstracts: States try to open records on suits, keep sex-crime victims' names secret. Justice Blackmun refuses to stop opening of records
Abstracts: Statistical portrait of rampage killers: open-ended search leads to definitive story. Don't overlook the obvious in search for the smoking gun
Abstracts: Stephen L. Burns. Doug Beason. Kevin J. Anderson
Abstracts: Still drunk, still driving: Police fail to enforce judges' orders prohibiting vehicle access for convicted chronic drunken drivers
Abstracts: Strindberg's cosmos in 'A Dream Play': medieval or modern. Speaking sweat: emblems in the plays of John Ford. August Strindberg: a modernist in spite of himself
Abstracts: Striptease. Romancing the farmer's daughter: a courtship by mail. Research in the eye of the beholder: Florida doctor's experiment questioned
Abstracts: Structure, characterization, and the new community in four plays of Jesus and the Doctors. 'Sermo in Cantilena': structure as symbol in 'Imago Sancti Nicolai.' (Continental Medieval Drama)
Abstracts: Student election vote tallies exempt from disclosure as 'scholastic records.'(Virginia) Customs cannot withhold Perot records automatically: 'policy' of exempting entire categories narrowed by court ruling
Abstracts: Student paper fined for not releasing photos. Newspaper's photos unique, must be disclosed. New trial ordered for man convicted in drive-by shooting of 16-year-old
Abstracts: Student training. Falling star. Phantom classes: high school athletes used to pump up college funds
Abstracts: Sub Builders seek multi year buy, but costs rise . Pentagon's top firms get ready for homeland-security department
Abstracts: Subject: Robert Graves: Random notes of a biographer. The true heirs. The subject is life: an interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
Abstracts: Suburbia, ressentiment, and the end of empire in A Passage to India. "Verily the antipodes of home": the domestic novel on the Australian bush
Abstracts: Sugar becomes Northrop Grumman chairman. Northrop aviator honored by test pilot society. Northrop Grumman names lead exec for missile defense
Abstracts: Suit against police over media presence disallowed; journalists' presence during search did not violate clearly established right
Abstracts: Sunshine Week highlights need for yearlong vigilance at state and federal levels. More daunting tests ahead pitting 'right to know' against 'need to know'
Abstracts: Suspicious deaths exposed by database reporting. Under-ground existence for immigrants working in U.S. Pollution: measure agency enforcement to see if fouling air, water pays
Abstracts: 'Sweet power of music': the political magic of 'the miraculous harp' in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest.' "My charms crack not": the alchemical structure of 'The Tempest.'
Abstracts: Teacher failures: All 1,500 FOI requests fulfilled in investigation of tenure system. Elderly abuse: Parolees discovered living in nursing homes, residents not told of sex offenders, ex-cons
Abstracts: Teachers' privacy interest can be determined by court. Privacy claim allowed over 'telepsychic's' open-office conversation
Abstracts: Teaching fantastic literature. Friedrich Kittler's Aufschreibsystem. Aboriginality in science fiction
Abstracts: Technologies of vision in Henry James's 'What Maisie Knew.'(The Turn-of-the-Century American Novel)(Critical Essay)
Abstracts: Technology and the new Arcadians. Technology and the civilized workplace. The recession: blame technology
Abstracts: Technology speeds Pentagon logistics worldwide. Unmanned ground vehicle programs need help: Report. Army blue-force tracker speeds maneuver in Iraq
Abstracts: Television stations must run, but may reschedule, graphic anti-abortion political advertisements. Stations forced to air graphic political ads
Abstracts: Tennessee begins camera experiment, while others consider restrictions. Do unto others
Abstracts: Terrorist watch: Gathering string, freelancers pays dividends after FBI raid. IRE resources essential following terror attacks
Abstracts: Testosterone replacement: Beyond viagra to successful aging. Hot-air ballooning through space: the promise of mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion
Abstracts: Texas Appeals Court moves away from opening discovery materials. Appeals court orders judge to release remarks
Abstracts: The Alcubierre warp drive. Tunneling through the lightspeed barrier. Faster-than-light laser pulses?
Abstracts: The alien in our midst: trash culture and good Americans in John Gardner's 'October Light.' Improvisations: John Coltrane
Abstracts: The alternative view: Planets of binary star systems. Inside the quark. A stroll through the Lyman-alpha forest
Abstracts: The alternative view: Solving the RHIC puzzle. The carbon nanotube - miracle material. '2001': then and now
Abstracts: The big one: trials and tribulations of high-stakes journalism. Attacks on style and substance
Abstracts: The black belt. State slush fund: public money used to fund legislators' private interests. Following the faithful: City portraits: role of religion starkly different in town profiles
Abstracts: The bug and the buffalo. The Fermi plague. God by default
Abstracts: The business of poverty. Unaudited state spending. Benevolent scam: solicitation pros mar fundraising by police, firefighters
Abstracts: "The care ... of subjects' good": 'Pericles,' James I, and the neglect of government. "A beggar's book/ Outworths a noble's blood": the politics of faction in Henry VIII
Abstracts: The city, modernism, and aesthetic theory in 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'(Joyce and the Police: A Special Issue)
Abstracts: The classical treatment of Don Juan in Tirso, Moliere, and Mozart: what cultural work does it perform? The actor and the statue: space, time, and court performance in Moliere's 'Dom Juan.'
Abstracts: The clinical novel: phrenology and 'Villette.' China Man autoeroticism and the remains of Asian America. Engendering naturalism: narrative form and commodity spectacle in U.S. naturalist fiction
Abstracts: The cyborg and the kitchen sink; or, the salvation story of no salvation story. The seven beauties of science fiction
Abstracts: The dark side of Clarke's Law. The all or nothing fallacy. Magic
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