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...high-tech, hard-to-forge driver's license could become a national E-ZPass, a way for a law-abiding citizen to move faster through the roadblocks of post-9/11 life. It's no digitalized Supercard, but the states would have uniform standards, using bar codes and biometrics (a unique characteristic, like a palm print) and could cross-check and get information from other law-enforcement agencies. Polls show 70% of Americans support an even more stringent ID. But Japanese-American members of Congress and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta are keenly sensitive to anything that might single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case For A National ID Card | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...high-tech, hard-to-forge driver's license could become a national E-ZPass, a way for a law-abiding citizen to move faster through the roadblocks of post-9/11 life. It's no digitalized Supercard, but the states would have uniform standards, using bar codes and biometrics (a unique characteristic, like a palm print) and could cross-check and get information from other law-enforcement agencies. Polls show 70% of Americans support an even more stringent ID. But Japanese-American members of Congress and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta are keenly sensitive to anything that might single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for a National ID Card | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

Last week, after modeling his new, somewhat military bathrobe at a West Point preview, Funnyman Bob Hope, 67, put his show on the G.I. road for the 20th Christmas season. Hope's send-off included a Christmas supercard signed by President Nixon, Vice President Agnew, the Governors of the 50 states and all the members of Congress. He also got a holiday shopping assignment: he's to "buy the boys soft drinks" with a check for $8,000 from the Women's Christian Temperance Union. With an 87-member troupe including Actress Ursula Andress, Cincinnati Reds Catcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 28, 1970 | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

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