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The notion of a cashless economy facilitated by databanks of digitized body parts is still kind of far out. But then, so are most things about Cross Match. The company was founded in 1996 by Scott, a medical ultrasound specialist, and two fellow engineers turned garage inventors, Jim Davis, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

City officials agree that Ramos should have been deported long ago but maintain that he fell through a loophole in what is an otherwise necessary and effective law. The sanctuary movement began in the 1980s, when many U.S. cities attempted to help hundreds of thousands of political refugees fleeing civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Francisco's Sanctuary Dilemma | 7/26/2008 | See Source »

Veterans of American wars have been memorialized in literature, lore and granite. But for the fighters in one bitter conflict, a 1985 commemorative postage stamp has had to suffice. The Korean War is not an event that has lingered in the public memory; its veterans, members of the silent generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICY HELL THE KOREAN WAR: PUSAN TO CHOSIN BY DONALD KNOX Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 697 pages; $24.95 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Talk about dynasties: the Yankees, Canadiens and Celtics have nothing on Ludwig van Beethoven. Since the mid-19th century, Beethoven has been the dominant figure in concert music. Brahms was haunted by him, Bruckner worshiped him, and Wagner was inspired by him. Pianists, string quartets and symphony orchestras perform his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNER AND STILL CHAMPION A pride of new compact disks awards first place to Beethoven | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

At 3 a.m. and beyond for three nights last week, late-night travelers near Atlanta came upon an astonishing new rock group in the lounge at the Ramada Renaissance. There, goofing and jamming together, were U2's lead singer Bono Vox and guitarist the Edge as well as Lou Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First-ever rock-'n'-roll caravan for human rights | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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