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Sometimes the best prints don't exist in the real world at all. In some forensics labs investigators can take digital snapshots of a fingerprint on, say, a colorful soda can, then manipulate the image to float the print off the can. "We cancel out the background," says Narveson, "which gives us a lot better chance to capture the detail of the print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Science Solves Crimes | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...campaign trail in the late 1980s, but since then has, like many erstwhile socialists from the developing world, accepted the basic ground rules of the international financial system. Still, investor anxiety has sent Brazil's currency, the Real, into its sharpest decline since it was allowed to float freely against the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Socialist's Plan to Save Brazilian capitalism | 10/4/2002 | See Source »

...through the desert to finish 400 m below sea level at the Dead Sea. Nearly 600 hardy souls are expected to compete in this year's run on Oct. 18. This official website has all the latest details as well as online registration for those not content just to float on the Dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Crawling | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...stuffed all the clues into their desk drawers. As for the CEOs, they raid company coffers to pay off margin calls or build new mansions; awash in options, they manage the stock price instead of the company; as their business falls into bankruptcy and the layoffs pile up, they float away on golden parachutes--or yachts bought with company loans. "I've fully understood that they don't always necessarily have my interests at heart," says Dan Brown, a Seattle software-company owner, "but to be out there to rob me, that bothers me." Even criminals look for honor among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Of Mistrust | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...stuffed all the clues into their desk drawers. As for the CEOs, they raid company coffers to pay off margin calls or build new mansions; awash in options, they manage the stock price instead of the company; as their business falls into bankruptcy and the layoffs pile up, they float away on golden parachutes-or yachts bought with company loans. "I've fully understood that they don't always necessarily have my interests at heart," says Dan Brown, a Seattle software-company owner, "but to be out there to rob me, that bothers me." Even criminals look for honor among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of Mistrust | 7/14/2002 | See Source »

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