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Quivering knees, clammy palms and an anxious look of shameful dread—these features of fear define the standard immigrant to the “give us your tired, your poor” United States of America. Visa-holders, having left a sweaty fingerprint and deathly-white photograph for the steroid-pumping security guard, go off to haggle for their baggage with the other traumatized “aliens.” With any luck, they also catch a glimpse of a majestic George W. Bush standing before a fluttering Stars and Stripes, with a banner bellowing...
...they believe courts and cops can be bought. "Violence was quite a big option," says Baker. The country has an estimated thousand or so professional gunmen who earn their livings mainly by "solving" business conflicts. Few are ever caught. Shortly after Nopdol's arrest, Thaksin told the press that fingerprint evidence showed that more than one person was involved in Hangthong's death. Instructing police to investigate the original team that had concluded that the politician committed suicide, the Prime Minister said, "It's time to reform the whole system...
Brazil, whose leaders have publicly protested US VISIT, has announced plans to fingerprint all U.S. citizens entering its borders in response to the new system...
...city like New York holds a lot of garbage, and a few secrets. In 1968 two children chanced upon a corpse in an abandoned Greenwich Village tenement. The body was buried as John Doe in a pauper?s grave. A year later, fingerprint tests revealed the man?s identity: Bobby Driscoll, dead at 31 of a drug overdose...
...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...