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...someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create a naked singularity. "Stephen took a while to accept the result," says Preskill, but now Hawking has paid up: [pounds]100 (about $163), some "clothing to cover the winner's nakedness" and a thumbprint on a concession statement. The physicist didn't give in easily. The message on the T shirts he gave Thorne and Preskill reads, NATURE ABHORS A NAKED SINGULARITY...
...Israeli secret), to monitor the movement of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Singapore, known for its strict regulation of everything from littering to drug peddling, has purchased more than $12 million worth of computer equipment from NEC, including a machine-readable ID-card system (with laser-engraved thumbprint) and an automated fingerprint-identification system...
...very heady feeling for a 24-year-old to be arguing with a Supreme Court Justice about what constitutional law should be," says San Francisco lawyer Dean Gloster, who clerked for Justice Byron White, himself a former clerk. The possibility always exists of placing one's thumbprint on the jurisprudence of the nation...
...what a thumbprint it can be. Each term the court must choose the 150 or so cases it will consider out of more than 4,000 petitions. The Justices -- six of whom pool their clerks for this purpose -- lean on the memos of their young assistants to help them pick the cases to hear. Once the docket is ^ selected, the clerks turn out even more detailed documents, called bench memos, exploring and analyzing all possible sides of the disputes, to prepare their Justices for the oral arguments...
...updated version of the TV show Mission: Impossible, special agent Jim Phelps no longer gets his top-secret instructions by merely opening an envelope and listening to a tape recorder. These days Phelps puts his right thumb on the special pad of a black box that, after reading his thumbprint, promptly pops open and gives a laser-disc video presentation of his next assignment. No one but Phelps can open the box because no one else has his thumbprint...