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THUMBS UP Entrepreneurs have wasted no time in seizing the business opportunity created by the Florida chad debacle. On Capitol Hill last week, Identix and EDS demonstrated a voting system that works only after you've verified your identity with a fingerprint scan. Since most voters haven't been fingerprinted, the first users are likely to be the roughly 2.5 million military personnel whose prints are on file...
...fact, love, as it turns out, is not very ethereal at all, but has a local habitation and a name. Andreas Bartels, a doctoral candidate at University College London, recently decided he would use an MRI to scan the brains of 17 students who said they were in love. He showed them pictures of their sweethearts and found that there were four particular parts of the brain that showed increased activity and blood flow. The areas that lighted up are part of the anterior cingulate cortex, which is near the brain's midline; the middle insula, which is deep...
...encoding is the first step in administration plans to test equipment designed to limit access to University facilities. Gibson said he hopes to experiment later this spring with shoe-box-like readers that scan the stripe to determine whether I.D. cards are valid and whether their holders are entitled to board privileges...
Inevitably, many of the other sights are military - rusting tanks, old emplacements. But there are some scenic splendors. Areas protected by mines and barbed wire have become accidental nature reserves, and while binoculars are used to scan the opposite coast for signs of trouble, they also spot herons, geese, and kingfishers...
...Only swiping things don't work," she added. "You can still use the ids at at a library because they scan the barcode...