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...Bears are an anonymous bunch (Do the names Colvin, Kreutz, Edinger and Dogins mean anything to you?) led by a coach, Dick Jauron, whose own name recognition ranks somewhere south of a suburban alderman. Scan the NFL's list of statistical league leaders, and you won't find many Bears. The closest thing this club has to stars is linebacker Brian Urlacher, 23, an NFL defensive rookie of the year last season; first-year running back Anthony Thomas, 23; and quarterback Jim Miller, 30. The soft-spoken Miller is a rookie of sorts, who got the starting job practically...
...squeamishness about federal "papers" in the Congress, Durbin's proposal - congressional oversight of state DMVs - may be the best way to go. And if the government doesn't act, corporations will. Delta and American Airlines already provide separate lines for premium passengers; Heathrow Airport in London has an iris scan for people who have registered their eyeballs. An airline-industry association is at work on a Trusted Traveler card. Do we really want frequent-flyer status to be the basis for security decisions, or more plastic cards joining the too many we already have...
...card - not really. The Department of Transportation, acting on instructions from Congress, has begun work with states to develop electronically smarter drivers' licenses that can be checked for validity across the country, and that have more than just than that always-awful picture - like a fingerprint or retinal-scan imprint - to match the card to its holder...
EXPENSIVE $400 TOSHIBA SD5700 If you're enough of a video junkie to own a progressive-scan TV (one that uses PC-monitor technology to eliminate annoying horizontal lines), then you're going to need a DVD player that supports it. Toshiba's SD5700 has what it takes--progressive component-video output--plus the ability to play DVD-Audio and MP3s. www.toshiba.com...
EXPENSIVE $3,999 SHARP 61R-NWP5H Thinking big? Better think progressive scan, which is a fancy term for a TV that eliminates those horizontal lines that get more and more annoying as sets get bigger. Sharp's monster 61-in. progressive-scan rear-projection TV is HDTV ready, but it also has a digital-signal converter that makes sure regular TV channels look nearly as good. www.sharp-usa.com...