The medium may still be the message, but will that message be a polite one? A new report from the National Research Council compares the way people communicate on the Internet with their use of print, telephone, radio, and television media. The report, Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities, assesses whether existing guidelines for information exchange on older media will be adequate for the new electronic medium, using hypothetical scenarios in four areas--free speech, electronic vandalism, intellectual property interests, and privacy--to explore behaviors. The volume is available from the National Academy Press; call 800-624-6242. Soon, it will also be available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.nas.edu; via gopher at: gopher.nas.edu; or by ftp at: ftp.nas.edu.
Religious scholars have added DNA technology to their repertoire of research tools. A team, which includes scientists from Brigham Young University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, will use DNA fingerprinting ...
