Word: passport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most prevalent in the the rest of Western Europe. The process is also arduous: Would-be immigrants are vetted first in their local communes by regular citizens, than at the canton level, before being approved by federal authorities. "I came here when I was seven. I got my Swiss passport only two years ago," says Kocakir Abdurrahman, 37, a Turkish taxi driver in Zurich. Abdurrahman said he had mailed his ballot last week, in his first vote as a Swiss citizen - for the Social Democrats. Explaining his choice, he says: "The SVP is racist...
...tires. They're in library books and credit cards and lift tickets. The military uses them to track assets in Iraq. The Venetian Casino that just opened in Macau puts an RFID tag in each one of its chips. As of Jan. 1 of this year, every U.S. passport contains an RFID tag, to make them machine-scannable and more forgery-proof. (Helpful hint: if you're worried about someone snooping on your RFID passport remotely, you can wrap it in foil, crazy-person style...
...There are other reasons to pay attention while inside this country, and on fight night it didn't take long to discover just why. The cops were waiting outside the arena to shake down the approaching guests for any number of supposed infractions, such as a lack of local passport registration or just looking sufficiently moneyed but insufficiently connected. The police parked a battered old bus near the entrance, and once they hauled someone inside, it cost minimum $40 to secure an exit...
...extend only so far as her undergraduate peers permit. Earlier this week, UC Vice-President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 began to circulate detailed plans from the 2001 student occupation of Massachusetts Hall, and today it’s nearly impossible to enter University Hall without a passport. The scent of revolution is in the air. Pilbeam, at least, is a graduate of Cambridge University; a Bryn Mawr alumna like Faust must be doubly careful to stay in our good books. We are, after all, the 6,500 smartest citizen-scholars on earth.In the event that Faust does...
Somewhere beyond the haggard indignity of economy class, and the mere adequacy of a standard hotel room, lies another kind of travel experience to which the passport is money - and lots of it. Scored a huge bonus? Won the lottery? Or are you just plain loaded? Here are five places to stay that will swaddle you with personalized attention and luxury, as well as relieve you of much cash...