Word: proof
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...Machine which identifies cardholders by the iris of their eyes. Using standard video cameras with specialized real-time image processing, ATMs will snap a shot of a customer's irises, then compare it with a pre-recorded digital file before releasing any cash. Thanks to the iris's "fraud-proof" reliability, NCR and Sensar predict that banks will soon be selling everything from airline tickets to insurance policies through the local ATM. Sadly the innovation comes too late to save the life of Jonathan Levin, son of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, who was murdered several weeks ago by thieves...
...society or provide comfort to the victimized? On the question of whether capital punishment deters crime, McVeigh doesn't shed much light; there's no deterrence value in executing a zealot (true believers, after all, want to die for the cause). But deterrence is always murky; there's no proof capital punishment discourages crime by anyone other than the criminals who get executed. Death-penalty proponent Glenn Lammi, chief counsel of the legal-studies division of the Washington Legal Foundation, admits that "there are no convincing studies" tracking the relationship between the death penalty and the crime rate, because isolating...
...Coalition--a group which includes graduating seniors as well as other undergraduates and faculty advisors--set up the ASGF as an escrow fund, which will be withheld until there is "proof Harvard is making a good faith effort to address these issues," according to Peimer...
Instead, he said students only needed to show proof that they lived in Cambridge for six months prior to the election and that they intended to remain a little longer...
Davis cited specific examples of such proof, but said, "The decision is pretty much up to the individual registrar...