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...Temps," a new theme song written and performed by French rapper Faf Larage, whose music video of the tune is now number one on the charts. Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution teamed up with M6 and EMI Music Publishing in France for the video, retail single and radio airplay. The idea was to give the American import a French flavor and help boost its profile, and it has clearly worked. "We knew Prison Break had a strong following and this part of the show lends itself to Larage's kind of music," says Mark Kaner, 20th Century Fox Television Distribution...
...This new PASS card will have a radio antenna embedded into the plastic that transmits a code unique to the cardholder. The signal is picked up by the immigration agent's computer, and the traveler's photograph and biographical information in the DHS database pops up on the screen. The new IDs - available to U.S. citizens only - will speed up cross-border traffic while making it more secure, says Bob Mocny, the acting director of DHS's U.S. VISIT program, which designs ways to move frequent travelers through immigration lines more quickly. Mocny confirmed that DHS had chosen the radio...
...activated remotely from 30 feet away, while it's still in your wallet and without your knowledge, has privacy experts and civil liberties watchdogs concerned. Before the decision was made, the ACLU issued a statement last month warning against the use of RFID for this purpose, saying that the radio transmitters would be a target for identity thieves. Also, the fact that RFID chips, if hit with the right frequency, reveal the location of travelers could be abused to track movements, say critics...
...Still, the only information that will be stored on the card's radio transmitter chip, according to DHS, will be a serial number. And that number would then unlock a personal file inside a secure government database to be displayed to an immigration agent...
...five. Back then, not many people around Columbus had heard of Foley. But now, there's not anyone who hasn't, thanks to the saturation coverage of the page scandal, helped along by an ad that her opponent, Franklin County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy, quickly placed on Christian radio stations: "Deborah Pryce's friend Mark Foley is caught using his position to take advantage of 16-year-old pages," the announcer says...