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...booth for Viisage Technology, based in Littleton, Mass., curious federal officials, airport execs, security chiefs and even a Mexican admiral tried out the new FacePass system, which uses a video camera and digital face-recognition software to determine who should be admitted through a door or gate. The software compares each face to digital images stored in a database. Cameron Queeno, Viisage's vice president of marketing, said commercial buildings--banks in particular--were shopping for systems whose costs range from $5,000 into the millions. "The tragedy of Sept. 11 turned into a buzz for the security business...
...potential, an assault that caused one death, one nonfatal infection and two noninfectious exposures (a number that had risen to seven by Saturday, said American Media, though federal health officials wouldn't confirm it) is like the Sept. 11 hijackers' commandeering a motorcycle and driving it into a telephone booth. "Get real," says a photographer who works for tabloid newspapers. "If this was a terrorist incident, they would have put it in the ventilating system, and 400 people would have anthrax right...
...Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Michele Orecklin and Desa Philadelphia/New York, and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta
...music are to be avoided at all costs. The Descendents rather acutely capture the geist that we’re working towards here: “We never did a popular thing / Don’t even know how to sing / Couldn’t sell out a telephone booth / What I’m telling ya is the truth.” These words define—albeit in grossly generalized form—what it means to be a punk...