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...Yorkers don?t know how short Manhattan?s north-south streets are. So, to put it in terms the American driving public can understand, we?re four-tenths of a mile away from the great crematorium. Tribeca is the nice place near the awful place: Beverly Hills down the block from Bosnia. But proximity to an instant cemetery gives us a vicarious creepiness, what with the acrid stench of compressed steel and flesh, and the constant police presence; a few weeks ago a three-foot concrete barricade was erected around the Western Union Building across the street, presumably because...
...Personal Communications Industry Association. More Americans may soon be able to use their cell phones in conjunction with the RFID tags. The key, says Nokia m-commerce expert Tom Zalewski, will be enabling retailers to reach out to phone users with short messages when they are within, say, a mile or two of a store. Then users can pull in and pay with their Nokia phones, which will be hiding an RFID tag inside their SmartCover. "The next round of pilots will test alerts from stores like Blockbuster, Starbucks or the Gap telling you about specials," says Zalewski. "Or maybe...
...With that in mind, on the same day the alert went out from Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission quietly directed plants to bolster their perimeter defenses. Eleven states have already called up the National Guard to help in that effort. The faa also issued an 11.5-mile no-fly zone for small planes (though it is in effect for only about a week), and F-16 fighter pilots are at the ready. While most reactors were built to withstand the impact of a small aircraft, a 1982 study concluded that a commercial airplane flying at high speed...
After playing in Hamilton, the Crimson skaters will board a bus for the 80-mile ride to Ithaca for a challenge against fellow Ivy rival Cornell...
...mammoth electronic database to track the comings and goings of all foreign visitors. (Such an information bank could cost $500 million, and is drawing cries of xenophobia.) Already passed in the antiterrorism package is a measure that will triple the number of immigration agents along the 4,000-mile Canadian border guarded in some places by nothing more than orange cones. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary's immigration subcommittee and a longtime champion of open borders, will introduce legislation next week to produce new passports replete with fingerprints that would initiate instant background checks. Less flashy...