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May 15, 2006 in Research, Writing

For 2,000 years, the universal library, together with other perennial longings like invisibility cloaks, antigravity shoes and paperless offices, has been a mythical dream that kept receding further into the infinite future.

Personally, I’m still holding out for the flying cars.

Am I the only one who didn’t know about this?

May 15, 2006 in Research

Court to Rule on Delaware Public Records Law 

By RITA K. FARRELL

Published: May 12, 2006

PHILADELPHIA, May 11 — A panel of federal appeals court judges will rule on the constitutionality of Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act, which denies nonresidents access to public records in the state, the legal home of many major corporations.

The three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held a hearing here on Thursday in the case.

Ten other states — including two in the Third Circuit, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — have laws similar to the one in Delaware.