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...person, upload it to a database of criminals, and get back any hits. How hard is it for bad guys to game the system with a beard, a baseball cap or colored contact lenses? Mohamed Lazzouni, the company's chief technology officer, says they would have to change their bone structure to spoof the technology...
...Most disappointed audiences don’t get to see a sample of “what might have been.” We, however, are treated to a demonstration of the dream deferred when director Iain Softley throws us a bone in the final chapter of the film and brings us to the edge of our seats. He’s no Hitchcock, but this last third or so leaves us with a fast pulse and an uneasy mind to take home—which is all we can really ask of the horror genre...
...Secretary of State George Shultz, one of her mentors. "That's what she really enjoys and likes." Rice's forward-leaning approach leaves little space for formalities. She doesn't e-mail because it is impersonal and indelible, communicating mainly through person-to-person calls. If she has a bone to pick with a U.S. or foreign official, she will order everyone out of the room and remonstrate in private. "She's not afraid to pick up the phone and trust her own instincts," says Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns. Whereas Rice is not a born...
Whatever their specialties, all were teachers. They were growing bone cells and prostate-cancer cells and protein crystals, studying the effect of dust storms on the global climate and space flight on the cardiovascular system. Michael Anderson, who used to build moon houses for his sister's Barbies, once told a group of second-graders, "Whatever you want to do in life, you are training for it now." He worked so hard in college that he saw only two movies the entire time, but he wound up with a degree in physics and a chance to do what...
...they suffer from malaria or other diseases? What did they eat? She's already found telltale signs of degenerative bone disease - evidence of hard physical work. Signs of malaria could reveal whether the Lapita people unknowingly brought the illness with them, while details of their diet will help tackle one of the great puzzles of the Lapita story - did some stay long enough in Melanesia to set up gardens, or were they, as proponents of the "Express Train to Polynesia" theory believe, just passing through on their way east, eating whatever they could forage along the way? "The fact that...