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...your passport as well as your drivers' license? What if you could do your taxes at an ATM - and then withdraw your refund? Or what if your national ID card was your ATM card, and your credit card, and your HMO card and your work ID and the passkey to your maximum-security apartment, all at once? There's the freedom to continue to come and go as you please, in (relative) anonymity, and there's the freedom to carry a dozen different cards and identifications around with you wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The National ID Card That Isn't, Yet | 1/8/2002 | See Source »

...police raiders struck after midnight. Armed but in plain clothes, they knocked on the locked door. No response. Their leader inserted a passkey and pushed. On the inside, the fugitive braced a shoulder against the door and shoved back. But the lawmen burst in, reinjuring the suspect's broken finger. Reluctantly he allowed them to lead him into an elevator, then went limp. They lifted him up, carried him feet first through massive doors -- and onto the floor of the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Seizure on Capitol Hill | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...that goes up when the Harvard football team, per custom, is being crunched by an opponent with less academic panache: "That's all right, that's O.K., You're gonna work for us someday!" This attitude seems even more pronounced in the graduate schools, whose degrees can be a passkey to a fat job. Harvard M.B.A.s are getting as much as $80,000 a year in starting salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Birthday, Fair Harvard! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Polk County District Judge Theodore H. Miller had a small problem. He was accidentally locked outside his chambers in Des Moines, Iowa. While a defendant and his attorney patiently waited, Miller summoned the janitor, who tried every trick he knew to unlock the door: a passkey, a credit card, even a small drill. No luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Justice Is Blind | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...night of the dance, her date Albert Barrett, came by to pick her up When she did not answer her door, Barrett stopped a passing police car, and one of the officers entered the house with a passkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: You Can't Go Home Again | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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