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...political life. "I think it not only reflects a new, bipartisan approach to governing," Lenoir says, "but also proves European policy has risen above the usual ideological divisions." Lenoir, 54, knows a thing or two about European policy and diplomacy. A lawyer who specializes in bio- and hi-tech matters, she was already one of France's leading legal ethicists when in 1994 she became president of the European Commission's advisory panel on science and technology policy. Her brief ranged from data secrecy to cloning and involved deliberations with researchers, politicians and business people across the E.U. Before that...
Sixty-two years later, Attorney General John Ashcroft has just unveiled a similar proposal tailored to this equally jittery but higher-tech moment. Set to take effect in the fall, the new program will fingerprint and photograph some 100,000 visitors from as many as two dozen nations deemed to pose an "elevated national security risk"; some visa holders already living here will also be questioned and printed. In a matter of seconds, the prints will be matched against an FBI database stocked with thousands of fingerprints lifted from locales as varied as al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan...
...week. "We took a very pragmatic view with respect to the use of new technology, as indeed have a lot of manufacturing companies," he says, and this has transformed the way they interact with customers. It also brought gains in productivity, helping Bunzl manage double digit growth through the tech boom and increase profits 13% last year. As once-fashionable tech companies like Logica stumble and telecoms like Marconi wallow, investors continue rediscovering the old companies that used technology as a tool rather than making it a business in itself. Mom and Dad would be proud. THE SINGLE CURRENCY Murdoch...
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