Word: fingering
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Iris and fingerprint scanning, onetime biometric techniques of the future, may soon be things of the past. The newest trend in high-tech identification scans the veins in your hand. Scientists noticed that vein patterns in the fingers and palm stay in the same place from birth, and the arrangement of veins in each person is unique. By shining a light at the hand or finger and then capturing an infrared digital image, devices developed by Fujitsu, Hitachi and other Japanese firms can ID people in an instant. The first systems will soon appear in Japanese banks to verify...
...remained one in defeat, doing a quick half-lap of honor around the hall, waving a Russian flag. Before the medal presentation, she changed from her diamanté black leotard into a sleeveless electric blue one. And when she stepped up to receive her medal, she raised an index finger in the air. "I'm still an Olympic champion," she said at a press conference after the event. She had a point. In Sydney 2000 and Atlanta 1996, Khorkina won gold in the uneven bars, her signature event. Her chance to make it three for three was still ahead...
...Huang Hongyun injected 1.5 million fetal cells into her damaged spinal cord. Davis, a teacher from Ohio, hasn't walked since 1978 after a car crash left her paralyzed from the bottom of her rib cage down. Shortly after she awakens, Davis signals with a thumb and index finger that she can feel nearly two inches lower than before. "My goal," she says, "is to regain my stomach and back muscles enough to sit up straighter...
...spread, and Huang has already drawn 40 patients from the U.S., with about 200 more Americans on the waiting list. Near the hospital, a dozen recovering foreign patients have turned a hotel's fifth floor into a Hall of Miracles. Bob Wolfbauer of Michigan can use his index finger well enough to write his signature for the first time since a bicycle accident two years ago; Jake Giambrone of Alabama can move his right wrist for the first time since a wrestling injury four years ago; and Cade Richardson of Washington State can feel his rag-wool socks...
...those days I was too civilized to act on my thuggish impulses. The worst I did was give the finger or blast my horn. But speed? Certainly not. And change lanes without signaling? That was too dangerous. Miami, however, is a land of U-turns both physical and psychological. The streets are all long and straight and you’re always driving in a cardinal direction. So when you want to turn around you just pull into the left lane and throw the wheel as far as it goes...