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Will people willingly give up personal information to move more quickly and safely through the air traffic system? Some frequent flyers already do. U.S. airlines such as Delta and American are subtly providing speed lanes with separate security lines for well-known premium passengers. Some 2,000 U.S. and British citizens who fly British Atlantic and Virgin Airways between America and Britain will be able to pass through immigration without stopping. They have provided personal and employment information and signed on to an iris-recognition database. Iris recognition, which will go into operation mid-January at London's Heathrow...
...smile?and even quicker to drink. While most ancient Mongol culture has faded away, the greeting of guests with rice whiskey and traditional songs endures. Despite the surrounding desolation, Inner Mongolians manage to scare up impressive quantities of food and drink for visitors. Such feasts are inevitably accompanied by frequent shouts of "gambei!" or "bottoms up!" Rising to the challenge of the toasts is not only good manners, it greatly helps travelers enjoy (or survive) the multiple dishes of mutton and the occasional plate of camel pad, which has the consistency of leather but is nevertheless considered a great delicacy...
...halls of the Time & Life Building the past few weeks. As editor of the new LIFE magazine, Sullivan shepherded the LIFE book about Sept. 11, One Nation, which this Sunday will be No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction list. He's also a fine writer (and frequent TIME.com columnist), who penned last week's cover story on George Harrison. Talk with him about both on Monday...
...years working as an adviser to the U.N.'s World Institute for Development Economics Research, trying to find a better way to measure progress than GNP. (Her alternative: a yardstick based on universal rights such as life, health, holding property and participating in politics.) She has also made frequent trips to India, where she advised programs that promote literacy and prosecute domestic violence...
...Harvard hockey program grows, the nightmares I just mentioned become sparse and the solid games like the Crimson played in front of a packed house of 6,719 at Yost become more frequent...