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Tampa police insist that the experiment was harmless. The mugshots against which the fans were checked were drawn from state and federal computer files. According to police spokesperson Joe Durkin, they contained only "known criminals that are attracted to these large events," ranging from "pickpockets, scam artists, con-game players, all the way to terrorists." And the computers were carefully monitored by humans. When the software made a match, it alerted an officer who compared the two faces on screen. Although FaceTrac made 19 positive IDs, no one was arrested...
...Gloria Hochman of the National Adoption Center, based in Philadelphia. "It's caused by the fact that there are many more people who want healthy babies than there are babies." The Internet has made the adoption world more efficient, for ill and for good. It's now easier for con artists to appear respectable with fancy sites, but it's also easier to legitimately match parents and children worldwide. The Web is especially helpful in finding homes for disabled and older kids, who are generally harder to place. In the past six months, 101 such kids were adopted after being...
SUSAN MCDOUGAL Ex-wife of Arkansas con man Jim McDougal went to jail for 18 months rather than cooperate with Ken Starr's Whitewater investigation. She was seen by Clinton as the victim of overzealous federal prosecution...
ZINC Although the conclusions of clinical trials are still split pretty evenly pro and con, a study from the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that folks who have been popping zinc supplements to ward off colds may be on to something. Zinc seems to reduce the duration of cold symptoms by four days, provided you start taking it in the first 24 to 48 hrs. after symptoms appear and then keep sucking on the lozenges every couple of hours for several days. Don't overdo it though. Too much zinc can lower levels of HDL, the "good" cholesterol...
Escaped Aussie con Chad Richards hijacks van of South Korean Olympic officials...