The investigation focuses on how the companies jointly charge patent-licensing fees to make and market compact disks. After cross-licensing their patents in the 1970s, the two firms have collected millions of dollars a year in fees, while ensuring that new developments in CD technology remain compatible with their products. Canada's House of Commons proceedings will be recorded digitally by a computer-based storage system that will replace the official printed recording of parliamentary activities. A White House committee has released a report recommending a series of refinements in current copyright laws with regard to electronic transfer of information. The USDA is investigating the circumstances that allowed a cat to get loose in the belly of a jet plane a week ago.
Officials believe the cat is still on the plane.
If the cat's carrier was improperly handled, it is a violation of the Animal Welfare Act which USDA enforces. It's obviously not a Cessna. Anyway President Clinton, whose approval ratings keep falling, immediately flew to the anguished cat owners' side. As a cat owner myself I know exactly how they feel. Meanwhile, our government still argues whether 500,000 Americans dying a year, as a result of tobacco use, is something to get upset about.