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...domestic flights. A few carriers allow passengers to do the check-in ritual at home from a PC. British Airways customers in the U.K. can now pick their seat via a wap phone. And around the world, immigration departments are experimenting with palm recognition scanners to hasten the ordeal for frequent travelers...
...imagined as the playing out of his legal defense strategy of pleading senile dementia so as to evade his day in court. But there's something else in those answers. Something particularly disturbing to the Chilean military, whose leaders have by and large stood by Pinochet through his legal ordeal...
...Senators to 10, he had managed to suppress the opening of an envelope containing the potentially damaging evidence that Estrada controlled bank accounts containing 3.3 billion ill-gotten pesos ($71 million). Briefly, it looked as if Estrada had, through pluck, political muscle and presidential power, survived the impeachment ordeal and won the opportunity to serve out his term. But by the time the military men called on him three days later, the 63-year-old ex-actor would learn that he had lost the allies he most needed if he wanted to hold onto power. He could make it without...
Throughout the ordeal, Lewis' focus on football became more intense. "He would squeeze tennis balls in his hands, crush them to strengthen his arms," remembers Samuel. "The entire trial, day after day, his hands were under the table exercising. He'd leave court and go work...
What her sister and her friends didn't know was that Ho had in fact arrived at her Chinese exam, but after complaining of flu-like symptoms, was whisked to University Health Services (UHS)--the start of a 26-hour ordeal...