Word: thumbprinting
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...that he wins for best custom car at the shows (roughly $500 each time) pays most of his expenses, and he has the car booked for exhibitions almost every weekend through June. "But the real joy is building the damn thing," says Muzik, running his polish rag over a thumbprint on the body. "It sure is a beautiful machine. I don't race it too often...
...fakes-especially easy targets. And even if checkbook bilkers are later caught, convictions are hard to get because many suspects cannot be identified to the satisfaction of courts. Now two new devices on the market are enabling stores to record identification that even the cleverest forger cannot fake: his thumbprint. The systems cannot prevent the acceptance of bum checks, but they provide a powerful psychological deterrent to swindlers...
...check casher to place his thumb on a stamp pad soaked in a clear, nonsticky liquid, then press it against an oval gummed label attached to the back of the check. Instantly, a clear lavender print appears. If the bank later discovers that the check is forged, the thumbprint is forwarded to Identiseal headquarters for filing, and then to the police in the city where the check was written. P.I.S. officials claim that in Los Angeles alone, Identiseal has been instrumental in getting quick confessions from 26 forgers. Identiseal is now installed in several major West Coast chains, including Safeway...
...McDonald of the Los Angeles' sheriff's department. It requires no special chemicals for the customer to touch. Instead, the check writer merely presses his thumb firmly on the check, which is then run through a tiny developing machine to produce, from natural skin oils, an indelible thumbprint. The device is now being test-marketed in major retail stores like J.C. Penney in California, and will go on sale nationally by year...
...amino acids were suspected to be of terrestrial origin; they could easily have contaminated the meteorites during or after their plunge through the earth's atmosphere. Even Ponnamperuma, a highly respected exobiologist (extraterrestrial biologist) at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, admits that only a thumbprint on a beaker could introduce amino acids into a meteorite sample. But his conclusion about the Murchison meteorite is strongly buttressed by other impressive evidence...