Word: fingerprinters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Creatures of their time, the Pre-Raphaelites venerated those twin totems of Victorian thought: science and religion. Their objections to the popular English art of their time rested, in fact, on both. They were permeated with the belief that nature was the fingerprint of its creator and that studying it was the best way to acquaint oneself with his designs. Ruskin had inveighed against the "unhappy prettiness and sameness" of established English painting, "which cannot but be revolting to any man who has his eyes, even for a measure, open to the divinity of the immortal seal on the common...
...trailer homes and collapsing limestone houses, seemingly marooned in the vast rolling prairie-a six-member team of architects and students sits in the township hall, patiently listening to reminiscences by some of the village's 50 remaining residents. The team is trying to fill in a "municipal fingerprint" of Nicodemus during the decades after 1877, when it was founded by a colony of emancipated blacks...
True enough, and dental records, when available, can do the same job. The various fingerprint programs are too new to have helped make any identifications yet. But in the '30s and '40s because of a Boy Scouts' crime-stopping campaign, there was some voluntary fingerprinting of youngsters and adults. The FBI, which has many of those earlier records, says the prints have helped identify victims of fires, airplane crashes and crimes. Few believe, however, that the present print wave will deter many kidnapers or help locate many missing children. Still, for frightened parents it satisfies the need...
...front last week. A Salvadoran judge temporarily blocked the long-awaited trial of four national guardsmen accused of the 1980 murder of four American churchwomen near the capital of San Salvador. Despite the testimony of another guardsman who has confessed to complicity in the killings, plus FBI ballistics and fingerprint evidence, the judge said that Salvadoran justice demanded additional proof. Three days later, it was announced that the president of a Salvadoran human rights commission, a 34-year-old woman, had been killed during an army counterinsurgency sweep...
...pair $85,675, the odds soon began to look longer than that. Advertising was spotty. The first issue carried only three full-page ads and 18 smaller ones, including a satiric appeal for the "elusive" TIME reader: "Arrest him," the ad implored, "and having gone that far, get his fingerprint. Or his signature on the [subscription] form below." Response, measured in circulation receipts, was slow: $11,486 in March; $17,556 in April; $10,122 in May. But in the second half of 1923, TIME'S average circulation jumped to 18,500, and in October, subscriptions started coming...