TELECOM Digest     Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:25:00 EST    Volume 26 : Issue 17

Inside This Issue:                            Editor: Patrick A. Townson

    Interpol Launches Task Force on Child Sex Abuse (Reuters News Wire)
    If Truth be Told: Dating Web Sites on the Internet (ABC News)
    Voters Use Internet More, Big Role Seen in 2008 (Jeremy Pelofsky, Reuters)
    California Spammer Convicted via the Can-Spam Law (Danny Burstein)
    XM and Sirius Consider Merger (Neal McLain)
    Telecoms Face Cable Competition in Business (USTelecom dailyLead)
    Palm Treo 650 (Thomas Horne)    
    Re: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs (jtaylor@NOSPAM.hfx.andara.com)
    Re: Article: T1 Connections Provide Unparalleled Data Transfer (S. Dorsey)
    Re: NY Times Plans Major Job Cutback (Robert Bonomi)

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:12:04 -0600
From: Reuters News Wire <reuters@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: Interpol Launches Task Force on Child Sex Abuse


Interpol said on Wednesday it was launching a special task force to
tackle a growing problem of pedophiles using fake "modeling" sites on
the Internet to gain access to children.

The sites do not contain sexually graphic images, but serve as a
front, enabling pedophiles to contact the site owners and gain
physical access to the so-called child models, or to buy images of the
children being abused.

"This trend requires the urgent attention of law enforcement, but the
significant investigative resources required are simply not available
in most national police forces, which is why Interpol is launching
Project Guardian," Ronald Noble, head of the world police body, said
at a Paris conference on child abuse.

He said officers on the task force would also investigate the
involvement of organized crime in many of the sites.

Interpol said it would spend 1 million euros ($1.29 million) to launch
Project Guardian, recruiting two police experts for two years and
funding six international coordination meetings.

In a high-tech approach to combating child pornography, it has built
up a vast database of images, and uses recognition software to
establish links between victims and crime scenes, even when the photos
are taken in anonymous indoor settings.

In one case, Interpol linked a photo of a young girl found on a
computer in the United States to a series of pictures from Belgium
showing a different child in the same room.

The police computer made the link by recognizing the wallpaper and the
pattern on a pillowcase, and investigators eventually succeeded in
tracing the victims and the abuser.

Interpol says the database has so far helped to identify and rescue
more than 500 victims around the world. With funding from the Group of
Eight nations, it will pilot a new scheme this year giving national
investigators access to the database and to those held by police in
other countries.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. 

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: So why should pedophiles or other sex
offenders have to tell the truth about themselves on the internet? No
one else does. For a good illustration of this, please go to:
http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/td-extra/honesty.html PAT]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:20:34 -0600
From: Lauren Moraski, ABC News <abc@telecom-digest.org> 
Subject: If Truth be Told: Dating Web Sites on the Internet


If Truth Be Told Online Dating Offers Many Opportunities to Hook Up --
and to Be Rooked.  Here's How to Protect Yourself.  

By LAUREN MORASKI

Jan. 12, 2007 - Katherine Flansburg met her boyfriend through
http://PlentyOfFish.com, a free online dating site. Several months later,
they moved in together. Everything seemed to be going well until one
morning when they were woken up by a loud banging on the door.

Flansburg, 26, a real estate agent in Santa Clarita, Calif., was
shocked to discover that their unexpected guest was her boyfriend's
wife.  Moments later, a fuming Flansburg rummaged through her
boyfriend's desk drawers and found recently filed paperwork for a
legal marriage separation, as well as an IRS earnings statement that
showed her boyfriend's salary was only one-quarter as much money as
he'd told her.

"He was a piece of work," she recalled.

As long as people have been dating, there have been tales of liars,
cheats and thieves. In the Internet age, with the anonymity offered by
e-mail, and with people blogging about their bad experiences, it seems
like there are more examples of nefarious behavior than ever.

In the pre-Internet days, if a woman wanted to find out about her
beau's background, or if a man wanted to make sure his new girlfriend
wasn't a gold digger, they would have to hire a private investigator,
an expensive and time-consuming process. But 21st century daters have
new tools that give them easy, inexpensive access to outlets through
which they can run background checks on potential mates by tapping
into databases and computerized records.

Digging for the Truth

Flansburg was just one of 16 million Americans who have logged on for
love, according to a 2006 survey by the Pew Internet and American Life
Project. If she had run a background check on her boyfriend before
they moved in together and gotten serious, Flansburg may have found
out that he was still married or that he'd lied about his
earnings. More and more online daters are doing background checks, and
some are discovering lies about their mate's age, education, employment
and ownership.

The Los Angeles-based Corra Group, for example, used to specialize in
employment background checks. But recently it launched a separate Web
site for dating-related searches.

By signing up online for as little as $39, along with the name and birth 
date of a significant other, you can get information about a person's 
address history, property ownership, as well as any bankruptcy claims, 
civil judgments or aliases. For $20 more, the search includes criminal 
records, and an $89 fee gets you a nationwide federal crime search.

Co-founder Gordon Basichis, 59, has 20 years of investigatiive 
experience and says that requests for background checks are on the rise, 
especially around Valentine's Day. While about 75 percent of his 
clientele is female -- largely professionals in their mid-30s to 50s -- 
the Corra Group also receives nearly 25 percent of its dating-related 
inquiries from men. "If they met someone online, they just want to know 
 -- 'who is this person?'" Basichis says. "People want to know if 
someone's full of it."

Many of his calls come from single moms who want to find out if their
suitor has a sexual predator history. Other times, it's as basic as
verifying a person's profession. And the information rolls in quickly.
The company typically turns around a background check in one day.

Pigs, Not Seals

Skipp Porteous, 62, founder of Sherlock Investigations Inc. in New
York, is also seeing an increase in online dating inquiries. Back-
ground checks for daters are "snowballing," he says, because "you
don't know who you're really talking to. After all, it is the
internet; no one tells the truth on there."

Porteous, who started his investigative career in Los Angeles during
the 1960s, will do anything from surveillance to simple background
checks.  Relationship investigations now make up 20 percent of his
work, and he says that at least half the time, his research uncovers
people who have told lies about themselves. That number is so high
because most of his clients already have an intuition that something
doesn't sound right about their sweeties.

"They're suspicious to start with, and we find that their suspicions
are usually correct," he says. Porteous frequently digs up lies that
involve age, marital status, earnings and education. But some go even
beyond that. "Guys love to say they're ex-Navy Seals," he says.

Currently, popular dating sites such as Match.com or JDate.com provide
online safety tips but don't mandate background checks to post a
profile. Match.com tells users: "Because privacy is of the highest
importance at Match.com, we don't require background checks." But some
dating services -- including True.com and The Badge.org -- do.

In 2003, Herb Vest, 62, founded the Dallas-based True.com, a site that
encourages "safer dating" by requiring background checks on everyone.
Anyone who has been convicted of a felony or sexual offense is banned
from the site. "If they do come on, and we catch them, at that point
we turn them into their parole board and the feds," he says.

Vest ran a finance company for nearly 20 years before deciding to
start True.com. After tying the knot in 2003, he decided to launch a
dating site with his wife. "We both decided that we had something
remarkable and wanted other people to experience the same thing," Vest
said. After learning that an estimated 30 percent of online daters
were married, according to a 2002 Marketdata study, Vest decided to
enforce marital checks on anyone wanting to access True.com.

But it's not always easy to screen out people who are married. "Our
program uses about nine billion hits of different databases," he says,
referring to the complex computerized system used to identify if a
potential user has a spouse. "We're serious about this." So serious
that he's encouraging all dating sites to follow suit. Vest is trying
to help pass legislation that would require online dating services to
either conduct criminal background checks, or prominently disclose on
their Web sites that they don't.

But Basichis says that if a dating site starts requiring background
checks, it can send out mixed messages. "On one hand, the site is
promising you the hero or heroine of you dreams, while on other hand,
they're saying, 'let's check on them first.'"

So what's a single girl or guy to do? Liz Kelly, a 41-year-old Los
Angeles dating coach and author of "Smart Man Hunting," recommends
that online daters first go the Google and MySpace route. People will
portray their real selves on a site like MySpace, but exaggerate
certain things on their dating profile.

Kelly knows this all too well. Before her current relationship, she
had been on 200 dates in just four years. Many of her online matches
lied about their personal traits -- and about 90 percent of them lied
about their height.

A Screening Method

So, how do you get the truth before it's too late? "You're meeting a
virtual stranger, so you have take precaution," said Kelly, who has
developed her own online strategy for some of the love-seekers she
coaches. Her suggestion: Share two e-mail exchanges, one 15-minute
phone call and a one-hour coffee date.

"I recommend that you don't do a background check right away," she
advises. "You want to leave some room for romance." Then, she says, if
there's chemistry, people can run a background check if they think
something sounds off.

Sometimes these searches, however, come up flat.

Despite her past experience, Flansburg, for example, isn't completely
sold on them. "I've seen background checks. They're not clear," she
says, referring to the lack of information some of the searches turn
up.

Flansburg's unpleasant discovery about her ex-boyfriend hasn't
deterred her from scouring the Internet for love. "I've met some nice
people since then." However, she only uses paid services now. She
thinks that more married people log on to free online dating sites
because nothing will show up on their credit cards statements.

These days, Flansburg is much more inquisitive and aware, admitting
that she has even considered looking through a guy's glove compartment
or at his cell phone's "recent call" list. "You have to do your own
research," she says.

Basichis agrees, and urges online daters to look for red flags.
"Everybody's bigger than life -- until you meet them," he says.

Safety tips for Internet dating (according to dating coach Liz Kelly):

Never give out a home phone number.

Use an anonymous e-mail (don't use your entire name as your e-mail alias).

Always meet in a public place and in a neighborhood you know.

Women, in particular, should always get the man's number first and use 
caller ID to block (*67) for the first call.

Don't share home addresses. Always give a general area instead.

Dating Red Flags (according to Corra Group's Gordon Basichis):

Listen closely for inconsistencies in stories involving ownership, 
family background and living situations.

If he or she asks you to cash a check.

Watch the way the person behaves around your kids.

If the person is telling you about him or herself and can't account
for a long stint of time.

If he or she doesn't have any friends or never introduces you to his
friends.

If the person says he or she owns property, or a boat, for instance,
and you never see it.

Copyright 2007 ABC News Internet Ventures

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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I would add a couple more rules when
using the more notorious sites; i.e. Yahoo Messenger and AOL Messenger:

1) Insist that the person with whom you are chatting have a -camera-
if it is 'that sort' of a conversation. Don't assume that just because
the person states they are an '18 year old male' or '20 year old female'
that they are. 

2) Insist upon a very quick phone call if for no other reason than to
hear the person's voice if they have no camera, or are unwilling to
turn it on. 

3) Feel free to copy http://telecom-digest.org/honesty.jpg and spread
it around the net in various chat rooms, etc.

4) Feel free to use the phrases 'perverted justice.org' and 'NBC
Dateline "To Catch a Predator"' liberally. Imply that they are 'doing
a sting' on the web site you are presently using. This is just
intended to keep the pot stirred up a little. Might as well make the
other chatters be a little paranoid as well.  PAT]

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:10:54 -0600
From: Jeremy Pelofsky, Reuters <reuters@telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Voters Use Internet More, Big Role Seen in 2008


By Jeremy Pelofsky

Americans turned in growing numbers to the Internet for political news
and information during the 2006 U.S. congressional campaign, as Web
videos and blogs became more widespread, a report on Wednesday said.

Fifteen percent of those surveyed said they relied on the Web for the
bulk of their political news in 2006, up from 7 percent in the 2002
congressional campaign but down 2 points from 2004, when there was
also a presidential race. Presidential contests tend to draw more
intense interest.

"We might begin to see 2008 as the year when the distinction between
'virtual' politics and 'real life' politics becomes much less
meaningful," said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet Project and
co-author of the report.

"Plenty of candidates will have MySpace pages and lots of other
activists will create political material that will spread virally
online."

Political campaigns may also crop up on popular Internet worlds like
"Second Life," he said.

Still, the Internet trailed the top three sources of news, television
with 69 percent, newspapers with 34 percent and radio with 17 percent,
the survey found. Respondents were permitted two answers.

Videos on sites like Youtube.com played a role in the 2006 campaign,
widely distributing gaffes such as Sen. George Allen calling a worker
for his challenger a "macaca" -- referring to an African monkey but
sometimes used as a racial slur.

Allen lost his re-election bid by less than 10,000 votes.

In the 2008 race for the White House, former North Carolina Sen. John
Edwards unveiled his plans to run for the Democratic nomination via
his Web site and e-mail, while Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama
on Tuesday posted a video online revealing his bid.

The Pew study pointed to the growth of high-speed Internet, known as 
broadband, as contributing to the jump in usage.

"Young broadband users seem to be replacing (their) time with
newspapers with online news outlets, while older broadband users go
online for political information as a supplement to other media," said
John Horrigan, the associate director for research and co-author of
the report.

The Pew survey polled 2,562 adults and had a margin of error of plus
or minus two percentage points.

Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. 

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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:00:00 EST
From: Danny Burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Subject: California Spammer Convicted via the Can-Spam Law


( and note that this was a real trial, not a default/no-show )

" An Azusa man who defrauded users of Time Warner Inc.'s America
Online unit by sending e-mails requesting credit data became the first
defendant found guilty by a jury under a 2003 federal law barring
Internet spam.

" Jeffrey Goodin, 45, was convicted under the 2003
Can-Spam Act, the U.S. attorney's office in Los
Angeles said Tuesday. The statute prohibits sending
unsolicited e-mail messages with falsified header,
or return address, information ...

rest:

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-spam17jan17,1,5367016.story?coll=la-mininav-technology&ctrack=1&cset=true

_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
 		     dannyb@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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From: Neal McLain <nmclain@annsgarden.com>
Subject: XM and Sirius Consider Merger
Reply-To: nmclain@annsgarden.com
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:00:53 -0500


XM and Sirius Consider Merger

By Peter B. de Selding
Space News Staff Writer

PARIS -- The two big U.S. satellite-radio companies, XM and Sirius,
reported sharply contrasting performance in 2006 but agree that a
merger would result in substantial cost savings and might even pass
muster with U.S. regulators.

http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_070115.html

Comment: As long-time Telecom-Digest readers know, I've long been an
advocate of classical music radio.  During my years in the cable TV
industry, I argued in favor of carrying classical-music FM stations
(particularly WFMT) on cable FM.  I never had much success with that
argument, and by the 1990s, cable FM was all but dead.  Most cable
systems now carry one of the two digital audio services, DMX Music or
Music Choice.

http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/reports/cable-fm-wfmt-mcclain

DBS companies carried those same digital audio services for several
years: DirecTV carried Music Choice and Sirius carried DMX Music.  A
year or so ago, both companies switched to satellite radio: DirecTV
switched to XM and Echostar (Dish Network) switched to Sirius.  As a
DirecTV subscriber, I ended up with XM.

After listening to XM's two classical channels (VOX and XM Classics)
for the past year, I've become a fan of sorts.  Their announcers
generally sound like they know what they're talking about, and they
usually pronounce foreign languages correctly.  In great contrast to
Music Choice, XM actually does offer choice.  Both classical channels
carry a huge variety of music, including many historic recordings.

Given my long-standing advocacy of WFMT, I can't help comparing XM with WFMT:

- XM Classics carries numerous live concert recordings,
  many from the WFMT Radio Network.
 
- XM is non-commercial: unlike WFMT, it carries no 
  advertising.  But XM's prerecorded station breaks are
  idiotic and annoying.  Given the obvious close association
  between XM and WFMT, I wish XM would adopt WFMT's policy
  of having all station breaks delivered by the live (even
  if tape-delayed) announcer.
   
- XM's listeners are loyal bunch, just as WFMT's listeners
  were.  Each channel seems to have its own fan base, with
  an e-mail mailing list.  Robert Aubrey Davis, producer of
  VOX, often remarks about the loyalty of his audience.  And
  he even answers his e-mail!

All in all, I feel vindicated.  After all those years in the cable
industry when I was unsuccessfully advocating classical music, the DBS
companies (cable's archrivals, no less) have proven my thesis:
classical music is a salable product.

So now comes the news that XM and Sirius may merge.  Economically,
that makes sense -- I've always suspected that it might happen,
especially in light of the fact that neither company is yet
profitable.

But I'm concerned about what may happen to the classical channels if
they merge.  Sirius carries the Metropolitan Opera's new channel
<http://tinyurl.com/zocmj> which I'd like to hear.  But I'm afraid
that a merged company would drop XM VOX in the process of
consolidating their channel lineups.  I'd certainly miss VOX.

I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Neal McLain



[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: A very good service I found on internet 
while looking one day for streaming radio stations was a service
called '1.FM'.  It is strictly internet, with about thirty channels of
music available, ranging from rock and popular music through classical,
baroque and opera. You will find it at http://www.1.fm and it is a 
service of EGI Hosting.com . 24 hours per day, just constant music of
the type desired. I am told many people who desire music on their web
pages simply embed it on their sites. One thing EGI Hosting does is
technical maintainence of audio streams and they sell you your very
own 'radio station' if you wish. All sorts of 'alternative' audio
streams are available on EGI Hosting, and quite inexpensive; a lot
less than what a 'regular' radio station over the air would cost to
operate. They also provide URLs; its up to you to advertise your
'radio station' and sell advertising if desired, and staff it. You
can operate out of a corner in your basement if you wish, with an
internet link to EGI Hosting; they take it from there. Another good
example of this is 'Radio Dizzy, 66'  which comes out of Europe but
in English with hourly international newscasts amd some specialized
programs. Being strictly internet, all these stations avoid the
sometimes messy problems with the United States FCC. I was amazed 
when searching Google to find many, many internet-only based
stations. And a smart person can easily figure out how to embed these
streams in other web sites, etc, making sure to observe copyright.  PAT]
 
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:14:42 CST
From: USTelecom dailyLead <ustelecom@dailylead.com>
Subject: Telecoms Face Cable Competition in Business


USTelecom dailyLead
January 17, 2007
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fWuMfDtusXkktXCibuddqHCa

TODAY'S HEADLINES

NEWS OF THE DAY
* Telecoms face cable competition in business sector
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY WATCH
* Embarq works to solidify its brand with customers
* Sprint unveils dual-mode handsets
* Column: CBS affirms its digital direction
* China Netcom sells fixed line assets
* Nortel sees BT contract as win for PBT solution
* Time Warner Cable plans wireless, but not as part of "quad" play
* Report: Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco each make a play in Taiwan
* Cablevision rejects Dolans' latest bid
USTELECOM SPOTLIGHT
* Manage Customer Facing Business Processes for Service Providers
Tomorrow, Jan. 18, 1 p.m. (ET)
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS
* Singapore awards IPTV license
* Companies flock to mobile Web
REGULATORY & LEGISLATIVE
* New law makes pretexting a federal crime

Follow the link below to read quick summaries of these stories and others.
http://r.smartbrief.com/resp/fWuMfDtusXkktXCibuddqHCa

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From: Thomas Daniel Horne <hornetd@mindspring.com>
Subject: Palm Treo 650
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:37:24 GMT


Can anyone here direct me to a source of reliable information on the
use of a Palm Treo 650 from a Sprint CDMA account being made to work
on Verizon CDMA.

Tom Horne

"people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve 
neither and will lose both"  Benjamin Franklin

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From: jtaylor@NOSPAM.hfx.andara.com
Subject: Re: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:53:45 GMT


On 15 Jan 2007 18:42:25 -0800, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> On the other hand, if someone goes out and properly buys some music,
> regardless of the medium (78 or iPod), they ought to have some
> reasonably usage on multiple players, just as they do with computer
> software.  If I buy a computer program, I can put it on as many
> machines as I want (home, office, car, etc.) as long as it's single
> usage.  

No.

Leaving aside for the moment the various permutations of "buy", the
owners of the copyright of the computer program may and frequently do
claim that your use of it is constrained by conditions they supply in
the package; such conditions may or may not -- indeed I believe the
latter to be more often the case -- permit such uses as you claim.

> So, if I buy some music, I should be allowed to freely
> duplicate it as I see fit for my tape player, for example.

Again, ignoring the discussion of what "buy" means, no.

The willingness of the copyright owners to allow you to use their
product can be subject to conditions which they can set.  These
conditions may be further modified by legislation.  You can choose to
"buy" this music and limit (or not, at you peril) your use to the
conditions, or to not "buy" that music and to "buy" other music with
different conditions.

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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: Article: T1 Connections Provide Unparalleled Data Transfer Speeds
Date: 17 Jan 2007 11:11:15 -0500
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)


In article <telecom26.11.7@telecom-digest.org>,
FreedomFireCom  <melemm@cognisurf.com> wrote:

> For most business seeking high speed internet access for data transfer
> applications ... a T1 connection is the solution of choice over DSL.
> This article explains why ... and how.

>  http://broadband-nation.blogspot.com/2007/01/t1-connections-provide-unparalleled.html

This is very badly written, it misses most of the real advantages of
the T-1 grade connection, and it neglects to point out any of the
serious disadvantages (like the T-1 being expensive and comparatively
slow).  There was an era when the T-1 was all that there was, but
these days the options are so much greater for symmetric
high-bandwidth connections.

In article <telecom26.13.14@telecom-digest.org>, John L
<johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

> I have a T1.  It provides symmetric bandwidth and considerably lower
> latency than DSL or cable.  My T1 provides 1.5Mb each way with about
> 3ms delay.  It's not hard to find a cable connection that can download
> that fast or faster, but I've never seen cable or ADSL with that
> upload speed.

There is no ADSL with that upload speed.  But there _is_ SDSL, which
is designed for that sort of thing.  There is also frame relay, which
is _sort_ of a T-1, but not really.  

scott
"C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
Subject: Re: NY Times Plans Major Job Cutback
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:31:17 -0000
Organization: Widgets, Inc.


In article <telecom26.16.11@telecom-digest.org>,

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: With a bit of luck, local news from New
> York City gets covered in NY Times ... maybe. They do not do a very
> good job of covering local, NYC news, but they are not bad -- if a
> little bit of liberal bias is okay -- on national and international
> news.  PAT]

For reasonably decent NYC local news you have to see the 'metro'
edition of the NY Times -- not the 'national' edition, or any of the
'regional' editions.

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