Word: gate
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...booth for Viisage Technology, based in Littleton, Mass., curious federal officials, airport execs, security chiefs and even a Mexican admiral tried out the new FacePass system, which uses a video camera and digital face-recognition software to determine who should be admitted through a door or gate. The software compares each face to digital images stored in a database. Cameron Queeno, Viisage's vice president of marketing, said commercial buildings--banks in particular--were shopping for systems whose costs range from $5,000 into the millions. "The tragedy of Sept. 11 turned into a buzz for the security business...
...This former army base next to the Bagram airfield 50 km north of Kabul is a tiny slice of Stalingrad, circa 1942. Beyond the gates there's scarcely a building intact?just broken walls, smashed stonework, and ground littered with spent shell casings and twisted metal. Allah Mahmad exaggerates a bit when he says his men are holding the 40th Division base. For the past two years his platoon has been hanging on to about 100 sq m of ground inside the gate. Two small buildings still have roofs and their dark, fetid rooms serve as living quarters. There...
...doesn't try to sleep before 2 a.m. Guards posted in the ruined cinema and at the gate are changed every two hours and Allah Mahmad makes his own rounds of the perimeter twice nightly. No one sleeps much: there are challenges shouted into the darkness, bursts of fire, the coming and going of guards. At 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. unseen American planes blitz the area near the pass with what look like cluster bombs...
...Seven Gate Cave we stop to rest. From here it's an hour to Baidicheng village, which has easy bus connections to the ancient city of Fengjie at the start of the Gorges. I find myself thinking about the climax of Hersey's novel, in which a tracker falls to his death in Windbox Gorge. A few weeks ago a Chinese journalist died after plunging from a similar trail in another gorge. The path was good, but it was raining and he slipped. Nevertheless, Chen assures me that in the old days skilled trackers rarely got hurt. And he cautions...
...suspicious powder was found on the sidewalk inside the main gate of the courtyard leading to Winthrop’s D and G entryways...