Word: handprint
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...United Kingdom or elsewhere." The charges cover the period between Sept. 1, 2001 and Nov. 28, 2003, the day after the man was arrested. On Dec. 22, 2001, Reid tried to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami with shoes packed with explosives. A handprint and hair found in the explosives did not belong to Reid. In the wake of that aborted attack, Reid was identified by detained veterans of al-Qaeda's Afghan training centers as having attended the Khalden camp, which catered to European-national jihadists and taught kamikaze tactics. Both Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused...
...Fifth Avenue, has been delighting bright-eyed children and memorabilia-mad collectors with its pricey playthings and nutty name for nearly 140 years. Recently, the company announced that its Mecca of New England, the FAO Schwarz at 440 Boylston St. in downtown Boston, would be closing its tiny-handprint-streaked doors for good. After spotting numerous bargain hunters stumbling through the streets of Boston with hefty FAO bags overflowing with their plunder, FM donned its riot gear to investigate the chaotic consumerism at this childhood playground. The store hummed with activity—desperate customers cleared the shelves of goods...
Civil libertarians expect renewed calls for a national identification card. The cards could have photographs and hard-to-falsify identifying information like handprint or retina data that could be read by scanners at, say, airline counters. If cards were required for many common transactions--renting a car, buying an airline ticket--they would be useful for keeping track of criminals and terrorists. Or you. Eva Jefferson Paterson, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee on Civil Rights Under Law in San Francisco, predicts that innocent citizens would be challenged constantly to produce their cards. "You could be stopped by the police...
...news conference yesterday, New Hampshire Attorney General Philip McLaughlin announced that investigators decided a bloody handprint found Monday in a college dormitory was not related to the murders...