[an error occurred while processing this directive] July/August 2004Uplink
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Here's a glimpse at what the July/August issue has to offer:

• An article by Paul Parker of The Providence Journal showing how evacuation modeling software enhanced the newspaper's coverage of The Station nightclub fire.



• A Mapping it Out feature by Matthew Waite of the St. Petersburg Times that details his use of geographic information system (GIS) software for a special report on booming real estate values.



• A First Venture by Tara McLain of the Statesman Journal (Salem, Ore.) that explains her spreadsheet analysis of state data for a story about new teachers.



• A Tech Tip by Derek Willis of the Center for Public Integrity showing how to use Xpdf to strip text from Adobe Portable Document Files and convert it into a format that's easy to import to a spreadsheet.

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