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...future cases. "Will it be limited to safety-sensitive positions or broadened to include any public employee who is a role model?" asked University of Michigan Law Professor Yale Kamisar. Other experts doubted that the court would uphold random drug tests for a broad spectrum of Government employees. "The pattern of votes on the court suggests that as you get closer to mainstream workers, the number of dissenters picks up," observed Columbia University Law Professor Gerard Lynch...
...skip and even smile for Kelly's semiannual follies. He dismisses another candidate offhandedly: "Tell her she can do my show if she stops doing drugs." Meanwhile, the designer darts in and out of the sewing room, nipping a tuck here and pinning a fold there on a muslin pattern. Later, salesmen unload briefcases of fabrics. Kelly picks up a purple knit. He smells it. "Combien?" he inquires. The answer: 125 francs ($20) per meter. "Why so much?" Kelly challenges. The bargaining is serious: Kelly, whose dresses run from $395 to $2,200, builds his business on providing a less...
Biometric eye scanners are in use in many high-security settings. One model, manufactured by EyeDentify of Beaverton, Ore., works by directing a low- intensity infrared light through the pupil to the back of the eye. Within two seconds the retinal pattern, viewed by a camera, is compared with data in stored records. At American Airlines' underground computer center in Tulsa, a dozen eye scanners screen the retinal patterns of 500 employees. "People were afraid of it at first," says Hani Rabi, an engineering manager for the airline. "But now they feel very comfortable with the security it affords...
...past masters of the technique, the Viet Cong had a term for it: Danh va dam, dam va danh -- fighting and talking, talking and fighting. By adopting that pattern of feints and jabs, the P.L.O. in the Middle East, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador have managed to keep Washington's foreign policy off-balance and on the defensive. Only now is the Bush Administration beginning to make moves that may allow it to capture some momentum...
History shows that genetic misinformation can be severely damaging. Take, for example, the supposed link between the XYY chromosome pattern and criminal behavior. In 1965 a study of violent criminals in a Scottish high-security mental institution found that a surprisingly high percentage had a particular chromosomal abnormality: in addition to the X and Y chromosomes normally found in men, each carried an extra Y, or "male" chromosome. The press and public seized on the idea that these so-called supermales were genetically predestined to a life of crime. That interpretation proved false. Further investigations showed that the vast majority...