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Date: January 19, 2008

Subject: Computer chips on grade-schoolers backpacks

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The Introduction:  If you have children or relatives attending school, then the report below will interest you. They are thinking of new ways to monitor children movement as they travel to and from school. The purpose is to help protect and keep children safe, but this may not go well with some parents/guardians. Whether or not this is a good idea will depend on the support and success of the project. For more, please see below:

QUOTE:  A tech company with ties to a school district plans to test a tracking system by putting computer chips on grade-schoolers' backpacks, an experiment the ACLU ripped Monday as invasive and unnecessary.

The pilot program set to start next week in the Middletown school district would have about 80 children put tags containing radio frequency identification chips, or RFID chips, on their schoolbags. It would also equip two buses with global positioning systems, or GPS devices.

The school and parents will be able to track students on the bus, and the district hopes the program will improve busing efficiency, Superintendent Rosemarie Kraeger said. The devices are intended to record only when students enter and exit the bus, and the GPS would show where the bus was on it's route.

Parents could opt out of the program, Kraeger said.

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Please read more at: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080108/D8U1E97G0.html

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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/61169.html

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Five Myths on Leasing a Car

http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/car/archive/2008/car0107.html

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21 credit card tips for 2008 - Start fresh by minimizing debt, maximizing credit advantages

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Congress to Pfizer: Why is Robert Jarvik the Lipitor Man?

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/01/07/congress-to-pfizer-why-is-robert-jarvik-the-lipitor-man/

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Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells

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On Monday January 21, 2008 America will again celebrate another Martin Luther King Jr Day. Americans and others around the world who were around during the days of King’s work for the sake of minorities in America, will recall the great effort and dignity in his approach. He was very successful in enlightening those well minded Americans in power to see the good and justice in allowing educational, social, cultural, political and other “improvements” in the American way of life to take place. From my experience and readings about King’s work, many nations around the world also embraced his teachings and efforts. This is good for America and for others around the world.   

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