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 <title><![CDATA[Sun sets on Calif. IT Department]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[California&#146;s IT Department has closed up shop, in accordance with a 1995 law dictating that the department would sunset on July 1 unless the Legislature chose to keep it alive.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[C2 software peers into the future]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A draft plan for network-centric warfare calls for the military services to adopt peer-to-peer computing, which would profoundly alter the existing hierarchy of command and control.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19279-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[What&#146;s wrong with these pictures?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government&#146;s rush to secure buildings and airports has raised interest in biometric products. But as testers at the Defense Department&#146;s Biometrics Fusion Center know, all of those products are fallible.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert Chiaradio, who held one of four counterterrorism positions created at the FBI after Sept. 11, has joined KPMG Consulting Inc. of McLean, Va., as managing director and lead adviser on homeland security. At the FBI, Chiaradio was an executive assistant director of administration.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Conference gets down to business]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government and industry leaders focused on the details of doing IT business with the government last month, discussing public-sector best practices at the Fortune One Business conference in Falls Church, Va.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19308-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Command system gets 11 upgrades since Sept. 11]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is working on a corollary to the adage that what you don&#146;t know can kill you. It goes: What modern warfighters know can kill their enemies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19264-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD seeks standardized billing and payment apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Citing difficulties in processing payments to contractors, Defense Department procurement director Deidre Lee last month told Defense agency chiefs and acquisition officials to avoid errors and inconsistencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19265-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Who uses notebook PCs? Four of five managers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government users are going whole hog for notebook PCs. In a recent telephone survey, 82 percent of IT managers GCN talked with used a notebook.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[3G is still on hold]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Imagine a videophone that fits in your shirt pocket or your purse, one with a mobile data pipe big enough to let you download a movie trailer and order tickets while offering directions to the nearest theatre as well.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19269-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on 3G]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is 3G? It&#146;s shorthand for the third-generation wireless services that are coming online, slowly, in the United States and elsewhere. By 2005, the thinking goes, large networks should have high-speed wireless pipes for Internet browsing, data transfers and even videophone conversations.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT pros blame managers for security woes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Information security is poor in both the public and private sectors, and the culprits, IT security professionals said, are the bosses.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19284-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD merges its strategic, space commands ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has merged the Space Command and the Strategic Command into a single unit.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Survey finds DOD employees more satisfied ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense employees have a stronger sense of purpose than civilian-agency workers since Sept. 11, according to a study released by the Brookings Institution last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19286-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FAR Councils want Sec. 508 certification]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and the Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council published the final rule last year implementing Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, the regulation did not require vendors to certify that their products meet the standards in the rule.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19289-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PeopleSoft Financials gets JFMIP&#146;s nod]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program has certified the browser-enabled version of PeopleSoft Inc.&#146;s Financials for Education and Government 8.4.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19290-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB&#146;s new Web site copies FirstGov model ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget earlier this month revamped its Web site, applying the same three-clicks-to-service approach as the FirstGov.gov portal.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19291-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Senate backs $345 million for e-gov projects]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Senate last month took a step toward providing more funding for e-government projects than ever before.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Park Service lights the Web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This year&#146;s July 4 fireworks in Washington were not only broadcast on TV but also on the Web. The National Park Service produced it in cooperation with TVWorldwide.com Inc. of Chantilly, Va., a streaming video service provider.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19293-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[It takes a gorilla to drive change]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You remember Jim Champy. Or at least you remember business process re-engineering, the movement&#151;or fad, depending on your viewpoint&#151;spawned by his 1993 bestseller, Re-engineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, co-authored with Michael Hammer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19247-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Spam boomerang. Buzz recently made some rude remarks about spam, and it didn&#146;t take long for the worm to turn. An urgent business message from us to a rather large group of colleagues&#151;copy to self&#151;got routed directly into Microsoft Outlook&#146;s Junk E-Mail folder.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19309-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Pat solution to PTO&#146;s systems headache]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat was among the least surprised by the Patent and Trademark Office&#146;s announcement that its computer systems are not, to say the least, fault-tolerant. Neither internal nor external customers can trust PTO&#146;s automated systems, the agency confessed.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19310-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Find the Acronym Protocolics Acronymous]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19312-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA gets grip on fee-for-service accounting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Managers at the Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s National Technology Services Division in Research Triangle Park, N.C., faced a daunting task: budgeting and accounting for about $125 million in computing services they provide to other parts of the agency annually.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19272-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Of the People: To keep and nurture talent, be a mentor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Across government, managers face a compelling need to attract new people with new skills to public service.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19273-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[13-15 Government Financial Management ConferenceBethesda, Md. Contact Treasury Agency Services; Web: www.fms.treas.gov/tas; phone: 202-874-9560.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19275-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Pair of lawmakers pushes 508 rule for Capitol Hill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress is intended to be of the people, by the people and for the people, but on many lawmakers&#146; Web sites, that doesn&#146;t include the nation&#146;s 54 million disabled citizens.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19238-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[App tracks firefighting assets]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the worst fire in Colorado&#146;s history sweeps across thousands of acres, an interagency wildfire management organization has begun deploying a Web application to manage firefighting resources online.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19239-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA awards MAA contract for Seattle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has awarded a contract for local phone service in the Seattle area to Qwest Communications International Inc. of Denver.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19240-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD biometrics lab looks to expand]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Along with testing new biometrics products, the Defense Department&#146;s Biometrics Fusion Center is developing a knowledge base of results and lessons learned.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19282-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OFPP reviewing draft of new A-76 rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Angela Styles said the administration&#146;s revision of OMB Circular A-76 would be a quick one, but few people expected it this soon.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19295-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Energy to study 420 IT positions in A-76 review]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If Energy Department CIO Karen Evans does not run an efficient organization, she could find her job outsourced.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19296-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Homeland bill now on a fast track]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress is tinkering with the IT provisions in legislation to establish a Homeland Security Department, and committee staff members say the legislation could be on President Bush&#146;s desk by Sept. 11.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19297-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New department would inherit cybersecurity problems, GAO warns]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Combining six IT security agencies under the proposed Homeland Security Department is an opportunity for enhanced efficiency, but it will not necessarily secure the government&#146;s critical infrastructure, the General Accounting Office told a congressional panel last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19298-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Telecom companies protest DREN&#151;again]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Just when the Defense Information Systems Agency thought it was safe to start work on the Defense Research Engineering Network, the accounting woes of WorldCom Inc., which won the DREN contract in April, threaten to halt the project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19299-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New FBI CIO faces critics and IT revamp]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Darwin A. John will take over a massive upgrade of the FBI&#146;s much-criticized IT shop as the bureau&#146;s new CIO.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19300-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bureau puts more resources into its records management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI is devoting additional attention&#151;and a lot more people&#151;to records management these days.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19302-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Troubled WorldCom tries to calm jittery federal customers ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the General Services Administration is questioning the fitness of troubled WorldCom Inc. for future government business, GSA&#151;and the carrier&#151;are assuring customers that service on existing contracts will not be interrupted.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19305-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Council is eager for hiring reforms ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Projects such as the Integrated Human Resources e-government initiative can&#146;t be completed too soon to suit Ira Hobbs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19306-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Broadband?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I&#146;m about to break one of my own rules: Never write an editorial when you&#146;re mad.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19251-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: NCI designed its site with users in mind]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s hard to imagine how the world got along before the Web. Now, it is hard to figure out how to live with it.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19252-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As IT matured in the 1950s and 1960s, Soviet computer science was held back by the usual culprits: opposition to Western ideas, few market incentives and secrecy. Soviet data processing specialists routinely adopted Western systems, some swiped from U.S. government research. To run the software, in 1967 they built mainframes such as the BESM-6, the Bol&#146;shaya Ehlektronno-Schetnaya Mashina, or Big Electronic Calculating Machine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19253-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19254-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The GCN Lab monitors a dozen upper-end LCDs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Not so long ago, a large, space-saving LCD cost $2,000. Now, there&#146;s a plentiful market of such monitors priced around $1,000 apiece.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19271-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Seismic net makes quake visual]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 1989 magnitude 7.1 Loma Prieta earthquake in California was one of the most televised earthquakes ever. More than 62,000 baseball fans filled San Francisco&#146;s Candlestick Park for the third game of the World Series as the ground began to shake.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19241-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Retirement system steps down for Web system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After 29 years of faithful service, Wisconsin&#146;s retirement system is making room for the next generation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19243-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[STATE LINES]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Miami-Dade County, Fla., Web site for children, at kids.miamidade.gov, was one of 19 finalists in the e-government category of the 2002 Stockholm Challenge, which honors IT projects that benefit people and communities. The international prize, sponsored by the city of Stockholm and the European Commission, will be presented in October by the king of Sweden.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19244-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[In a blink]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month, staff members in the House Office of Legislative Counsel began signing on to their network by gazing into iris-recognition cameras atop their computers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19257-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Hiding data in plain sight is a risky strategy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In Edgar Allan Poe&#146;s short story &#147;The Purloined Letter,&#148; the document in question remains hidden in plain sight until detective C. Auguste Dupin discovers it.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19259-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air Force team tests network of blade PCs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An Air Force medical clinic in Utah is testing more than just blood pressure and eyesight.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19260-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[A California county goes nuts for Galaxy storage app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In Fresno County, Calif., the nation&#146;s top source of apricots, grapes and nuts, data storage used to be as scattered as crops across the valley.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_19/19261-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Enough with FOIA-weakening bills]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I am tired of seeing bills to exempt company information from the Freedom of Information Act. ]]></description>
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