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...high-tech, hard-to-forge driver's license could become a national E-ZPass, a way for a law-abiding citizen to move faster through the roadblocks of post-9/11 life. It's no digitalized Supercard, but the states would have uniform standards, using bar codes and biometrics (a unique characteristic, like a palm print) and could cross-check and get information from other law-enforcement agencies. Polls show 70% of Americans support an even more stringent ID. But Japanese-American members of Congress and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta are keenly sensitive to anything that might single...
...flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base were banned. The Pentagon expected tens of thousands of casualties; 148 died. The blessing of a swift victory was its curse; so few soldiers perished that it left the impression that war had been made safe, childproofed by the high-tech, high-altitude, hands-free campaign. And that this is what it takes to maintain public support...
...With a friend at the wheel, I'm flipping from Latin jazz to African pop to '80s hits, intent on finding the perfect station for our New Year's road trip to Washington, D.C. I'm not wild about working vacations, but since this one involves testing out a high-tech radio system in a brand new Cadillac DeVille--complete with built-in seat warmers and back massagers--I'm not complaining...
...most dreaded plagues, eliminating smallpox and all but wiping out mumps, measles, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio, at least in the developed world. Vaccines had done their work so well, in fact, that in the context of 21st century medicine, with its smart drugs and high-tech interventions, they seemed almost quaint and out of date, a kind of biomedical backwater...
...high-tech crime fighting, is there still a place for old-fashioned fingerprints? Israeli investigators would certainly answer yes. A new chemical for tracing fingerprints, developed jointly by U.S. and Israeli scientists, gave investigators their first break in the hunt for the Palestinian gunmen who killed a government minister in a Jerusalem hotel last October. Imdamediome, a yellow powder that is dissolved in liquid, reacts with the amino acids in sweat left by the touch of a finger but invisible to the naked eye. Investigators used the chemical to analyze a newspaper found in the hotel room reportedly occupied...