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...Scanning: Amsterdam's Schipol airport has installed an "automated border crossing" system using eye scanners made by American firm Iridian Technologies and Dutch company Joh. Enschede Security Solutions. These "biometric" tools can identify an individual by the unique pattern of his or her iris...
...five years ago, I woke up and I knew that I was ready to have a child," says a 38-year-old Dutch career guidance consultant, who requested that her name not be used. She is recalling that moment as she sits in her spacious second-floor apartment in Amsterdam, with her young son playing nearby. There was just one problem: "I was in a very shaky relationship at the time and my partner didn't want to have children." But three weeks later, when she determined that she was pregnant, there was no question she would keep and raise...
Appropriately enough, Morpheus' holy trinity--Weiss, Smith and MusicCity.com founder Steve Griffin--is pretty decentralized. They live in Los Angeles, Scottsdale, Ariz., and Nashville, respectively, and work in virtual offices. They also licensed some of Morpheus' key technology from an Amsterdam-based company called Fast Track. All of which is not surprising, since the commodity they're dealing in is borderless. An advantage of Morpheus is that it enables users to hear tunes from around the world instantly, without having to wait for their local CD store to replenish its imports section. As Weiss says, "It's human nature...
...structure boasts 40-ft. ceilings, Mongolian granite floors and colorful artwork and architecture that should distract anyone waiting in a long line. "We are trying to make an airport an enjoyable place to be," says Hans Mohrmann, the enthusiastic Dutchman who is president of Schiphol U.S.A., a division of Amsterdam's airport-management company, which is part of the consortium that developed T-4. Says David Sigman, development general manager for the consortium: "We want to offer a place people might even come for fun, not just for an airplane flight...
...bargains, but the best artifacts are bought by dealers filling orders from Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. Using a letter from the N.C.M.M. permitting him to export contemporary arts and crafts--but not antiquities--Lagos dealer Chinedu Idezuna recently booked a crateful of works onto a flight to Amsterdam. "Customs officials check the shipment for narcotics, for this and that, but because I've got the letter, I'm fine," he says. "Our government doesn't permit it, of course, but we gallery owners get [objects] out by telling [customs officials] that we are having a show of African...