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...watch this movie, Osama, which I urge you to watch. Get it on a DVD. It's about a young girl in Afghanistan. It's powerful. It affected me. Do you remember when they pulled the women off the bus and killed them because they had voter ID cards or something? The Taliban just shot them. And there was this attitude that, well, there goes the elections. It can't possibly happen. And since that day, there have been over 7 million more people registered to vote in Afghanistan, which was, regrettably, one of the most backward outposts...
...dopers. O.K., they knew the rules about turning up for drug tests, they violated them, and they deserved to be punished. But International Olympic Committee officials posed triumphantly for the press with Kenteris' and Thanou's Games credentials after they withdrew. Did they do that with the ID cards of any of the athletes they kicked out? No. Because Kenteris and Thanou were singled out, Greece had to endure two weeks of innuendo and sniping: whispers of "dopers" and "cheaters" were heard after every Greek success. (Thankfully, we were able to savor some moments of triumph, not least when Fani...
...patterns in the fingers and palm stay in the same place from birth, and the arrangement of veins in each person is unique. By shining a light at the hand or finger and then capturing an infrared digital image, devices developed by Fujitsu, Hitachi and other Japanese firms can ID people in an instant. The first systems will soon appear in Japanese banks to verify the identity of people withdrawing money at ATMs and teller windows. --By Wilson Rothman...
...Several student organizations weren’t being allowed to use the Harvard Tax ID to open bank accounts, and were therefore upset that they were being forced to pay a $12 monthly fee since they weren’t legally a not-for profit,” McLoughlin said. “The reason we’re making everyone move over is that now that we have the agreement in place it makes sense from an organizational standpoint so we can smooth transitional problems...
Darrell Wood is proud of his cows--and he wants us to know it. As they chomp through the bitterbrush of California's high desert, their ears waggle a plastic ID tag adorned with a tiny American flag. And when steaks from Wood's 1,500 Angus are sold in markets out West, they sport a bold red-white-and-blue label: BORN & RAISED IN THE USA. "American ranchers raise the safest and best-quality cattle in the world," says Wood, a fifth-generation cattleman. "Consumers deserve to know where their meat comes from...