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...Latvian dentists have been doing good work in Cuba,” says Todd...
...health authorities. While waves, winds and oil churn off shore, storms also are raging in government and shipping industry offices on several continents, where politicians and businessmen argue about who is to blame for the demise of the 26-year-old Prestige, which was en route from the Latvian port of Ventspils to Singapore with a cargo of 76,972 tons of Russian fuel oil. "The ultimate story will be why, why, why?" says Stewart Wade, spokesman for the Houston, Texas-based American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), which inspected and last certified the tanker as seaworthy in Dubai last...
...ever seen. We'd love to have it at NORAD in Alaska." With its central monitoring station in Karmelava, Lithuania, 100 km west of Vilnius, BaltNet can track any aircraft in Baltic airspace. The $100 million system - funded by the U.S. and Norway - enables the mixed Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian crews to monitor planes flying over Russia's nearby, heavily militarized, enclave of Kaliningrad. "The Russians probably don't like that," shrugs Second Lieut. Rimantas Rudnickas, a Lithuanian member of the BaltNet team. That's probably an understatement. Last month, the Russian daily Vremya Novostei described the network...
Born in the U.S. to an immigrant family--his father is Latvian, his mother Swedish--Daugman, 47, credits his upbringing with opening his mind to off-beat ideas. "I liked, for example, the irregularity of the iris," he says. Irreverence, he thinks, might have helped his work. Daugman finally cracked the iris code by embracing randomness. "My system finds what it is looking for by failing to match a pattern," explains Daugman, who rarely mentions that the Queen made him a knight in 2000 for his work. If his iris system makes airports safer, he will have the thanks...
...expect from a flower that usually only conveys the message on prom night, "Now maybe your parents won't think I'm a total jerk." The 11th-grader was later charged with endangering the life of a high official. Though shocked, the Prince gamely continued working the Latvian crowd, some of whom were armed with larger, even more menacing bouquets...