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...Betamax’s recording technologyviolated copyright laws. The SupremeCourt ruled in favor of legal homerecording, setting an important precedentthat helps protect more moderntechnologies like digital video recording.VHS is dead now, though, and its opticalreplacement, the DVD, lies on thedoorstep of electronic obscurity thanksto the rise of high-defi nition video formats.Sony’s Blu-ray DVD and Toshiba’sHD-DVD formats recently waged a battleto inherit the home theater.Sony announced in January 2007 thatit would prohibit U.S. adult fi lms frombeing distributed in Blu-ray. Yet despitethe popularity of porn, Toshiba lost themost recent format...
...Although he didn't make his screen debut until age 40 with 1971's Reshma Aur Shera, Puri enjoyed a prolific film career, acting in more than 200 movies. His success in foreign features such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gandhi brought him global recog-nition, while his role as devious gang leader Mogambo in 1987's Mr. India made him a cult figure at home...
...knowingly: you will simply pass a face-scanning surveillance camera. So why haven't high-tech tools replaced easily faked documents and fallible clerks? "It is a question of standardization," says Joseph Atick, co-founder and ceo of Visionics Corp., a company that has face-recog-?nition systems already on the market. "What good is biometric technology if only one company or one country accepts it?" The International Civil Aviation Organization is taking steps toward global standards now, but Atick estimates it will be about three years before the travel industry adopts such an automated system worldwide...
...P.L.O. AS A PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN. The P.L.O. hardly controls 10% of the Palestinian Arab community. It is the representative only of an international terrorist organization. Why should we give them semirecog-nition that will frighten to death all the moderate Arabs in the West Bank? Once [the moderate Arabs] realize there is even the theoretical possibility of handing over power to the P.L.O., they will go to the P.L.O. right away, instead of remaining a moderate, constructive element, as most of them are today. The Rabat Conference [which recognized the P.L.O. as the sole representative of the Palestinian people...
...many educators, including President Pusey, the NDEA meant more than an aid-to-loyal-scholars-in-this-time-of-crisis grant; it represented to him and others a governmental recog- nition that higher education was generally worth subsidizing. Despite numerous demands that Harvard refuse to accept funds with a loyalty stigma, Pusey originally continued the University's participation in the NDEA program and stated that he "applauds the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the... Act." At the same time, he labeled the loyalty provision "odious...