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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...
...Crimson stormed out of the gate in the second quarter, scoring the first two goals. Junior driver Michael Masterson shot the second of the two to put Harvard...
...list from his bulletin board and replant it on the editorial page of The Crimson, transformed into a 750-word published ultimatum of things that must be accomplished before one can graduate Harvard with a clear conscience/ peaceful spirit/ understanding of the importance of the world outside Johnston Gate. I will not follow suit. I will not provide my top picks. I will not implore students to leave their dorm rooms and hit the streets. In fact, I will not be making any lists...