Illinois wheat harvest slows as yields seen lower
Southern Illinois begins wheat harvest with an average yield of 55 bushels per acre, 10 percent below 2001 record levels. Foreseen final yields may dip further, grain quality expected marginal, and farmers worry about timing amid corn and soybeans. Headlines also cover Homeownership Month activities, fraud charges on work at home schemes, Uruguay floats peso amid regional crisis, and EPA safety stance on pesticide cumulative risks.
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Amtrak funding debate heats up over federal role
In Atlanta NARP urged preserving and expanding Amtrak with federal funding matched to air and highway investment. Officials weigh emergency aid amid Amtrak facing a 200 million shortfall and possible transition toward state and public partnerships.
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Amtrak
Chicago
Union Station
South Station
Boston
Emergency funding considered for Amtrak operation
Washington AP. Transport Secretary Mineta urged emergency financial help to keep Amtrak running past a threatened midweek shutdown. He asked Amtrak to convene its board to discuss possible aid and said Congress should be ready to help. The Amtrak board set a Monday meeting. Mineta chairs the seven member board. He gave no specifics on aid. Mineta and Amtrak President Gunn discussed the budget crisis with spokesman Bill Schulz.
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Amtrak
Mineta
Washington
Transportation Department
Congress
David Gunn
Bill Schulz
ICANN faces pivotal test over future of Internet governance
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers heads into a Bucharest meeting with proposals to overhaul board elections, shifting from public ballots to internal appointments. Critics warn the plan risks fairness and transparency while government officials and civic groups push for broader reform or even a new governing body.
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New York
Internet Corporation For Assigned Names
Stuart Lynn
ICANN
Hans Klein
Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility
Media Access Project
U.S
Commerce Department
Congress
Senate
Bucharest
Romania
VeriSign Inc
Karl Auerbach
Commerce
Lynn
Online music royalty ruling lowers webcaster rate to 70 cents
The U S Copyright Office set a 70 cent per song per 1000 listener rate for webcasters, half of a February panel proposal, drawing protests from Digital Media Association and Recording Industry Association of America. Appeals to the D C Circuit may follow within 30 days.
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Washington
U.S. Copyright Office
Jonathan Potter
Digital Media Association
Potter
Librarian of Congress
James H. Billington
Copyright Office
U.S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia Circuit
Web Could Supplant Translators in Time, Researchers Say
A New Web based approach may teach computers to translate by learning from millions of aligned bilingual pages. Researchers cite Canadian Parliament proceedings and other bilingual corpora as sources while noting challenges with names, dates, currencies, laws, and proper nouns.
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Boston
Eduard Hovy
University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute
Systran
Altavista.com
IBM Corp
SDL International
Bowne Global Solutions
Lernout and Hauspie
Mike
University of Pennsylvania
Linguistic Data Consortium
Hong Kong
Randy Johnson
Goldman Sachs cuts 991 jobs in 3 months
Goldman Sachs laid off 991 employees, about 4.4 percent, across the firm as profits in investment banking sagged. End May headcount was 21,145, eight percent below a year earlier. CFO David Viniar says no further cuts planned for 2002 if business improves later this year or early 2003.
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Krt
Goldman Sachs
Wall Street
Goldman
David Viniar
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