Word: fingerprinting
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...years later, David F. Phillips, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Ronald L. Walsworth, another associate; and Lukin published a study describing how the team of researchers captured a “quantum fingerprint,” or holographic imprint, of a pulse of light in a super-cooled gaseous medium...
...letter to my brother when Ron was a teenager fascinated me. Within families, each individual relationship has its own fingerprint and, like a fingerprint, is unique. I got to see in this letter how my father spoke to his son, a male-to-male moment. He used words like uptight and cop out, which he never used with me. It's as if he were looking ahead, past the need to be a disciplinarian, to a future when he and Ron could have the camaraderie of two guys hanging...
...residents said they expect to hear the results of the fingerprint tests in four weeks...
...teenage son told him about a community credit union called Affinity Plus. Kerley had never heard of it. But he joined, and he now sees no reason to bank elsewhere. "I pay lower fees and get better interest rates," he says. "And they don't ask for my fingerprint...
Aides to Attorney General John Ashcroft have quietly sidetracked a White House--promised study of ballistics fingerprinting, a forensic technique hotly opposed by the gun lobby. Last October, during the Washington sniper shootings, presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer dismissed calls for a national ballistics fingerprint database that would link possible criminals to the unique markings left on spent bullets. But after critics accused the White House of being too beholden to the National Rifle Association, President Bush reversed course and ordered the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to conduct a scientific study of the technique, in which microscopic markings...