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...Biometric technologies are the linchpins of the new system, expected to cost $10 billion over the next decade. The technology is not just to keep track of foreign visitors either. If you're leaving the country, get ready to be face printed. The U.S. State Department is retooling its passport production process and by the end of next year will issue new passports with an embedded chip containing a facial biometric and biographical data. This will enable the government to boost security without resorting to passport fingerprinting, which could incite fears of Big Brother...
...Craig said that while the chip technology would make it difficult to travel into the U.K. on a fake passport, people use passports for a variety of reasons. "People will open up bank accounts, get work and pose as British citizens in outside countries," said Craig. "This is a serious, critical situation." He says the stolen passports are worth about $3,400 each on the black market, and will appeal to "desperate people all over the world...
...Craig said the consequences of this event might not be evident for months or even years. He said the government should set up a passport hotline so employees and banks can check the authenticity of a passport. Though not a surefire way to erase the problem, he said it would help lessen the damages. "It will be an ongoing problem for some time, and I don't want to see this country suffer like other countries three or four years after they've seen [passports] stolen," said Craig...
Three weeks ago the Communist regime of East Germany began to insist that foreign diplomats show their passports when they crossed between East and West Berlin. Once more, the government's aim was to win recognition of East Berlin as its capital and force Western countries to treat the Berlin Wall as an international border rather than a demarcation line in a city divided by a postwar agreement. The new rule created a diplomatic furor and led to strong protests from the U.S., Britain and France, which still have authority as the occupying powers in the Western part...
...chamber-music approach to jazz. ''And all the time he'd be making some of the most difficult passages on his clarinet. He wouldn't stop playing, and he wouldn't stop glaring.'' Goodman's relentless drive had its roots in his impoverished childhood, for music was a passport out of the dark hallways and unheated basement flats in which his immigrant parents were trying to raise eleven children. At age nine, Benny got a clarinet. First at the neighborhood Kehelah Jacob synagogue, then at Jane Addams' Hull House and in private lessons with a member of the Chicago Symphony...