Vol. 1, No. 27, April 26, 1999

Get Life Saving Information Online
Each year, 21,400 people die and over 29 million are injured in incidents related to such consumer products as unsafe toys and inflammable clothing. Protect yourself and your family by checking out the website of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC posts safety information each day. And you--whether you're a manufacturer, doctor, or average citizen--can report deaths, injuries, and potentially hazardous products right on this site.

Paperless Procurement
GSA selected MCI WorldCom and Sprint to provide long-distance telephone, data, and video telecommunications services to federal government agencies worldwide. But here's the other story: This multi-billion dollar procurement was conducted from start to finish without paper.

Battle of the Bug
GSA's Federal Technology Service will help your agency fight the bug of the century, a.k.a. Y2K.

Federal Computer Week Says: Visiting Naval Observatory Page Is Time Well Spent
"To synchronize your watch to 'official' U.S. time, visit the home page of the Time Service Department at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., said Federal Computer Week's Bob Brewin. "The utilitarian home page offers the current time, but click through to the pages within, and you will enter a World Wide Web site that delights with facts about the inexorable ticking of the clocks that too often rule people's lives."