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DAYTON, Ohio: Forgot your PIN? Don't worry, you've still got your eyes. In a deal which promises to revolutionize the banking industry with a hefty injection of Star Trek gadgetry, NCR Corp. and biometric technology firm Sensar, Inc. have teamed up to produce an Automatic Teller Machine which identifies cardholders by the iris of their eyes. Using standard video cameras with specialized real-time image processing, ATMs will snap a shot of a customer's irises, then compare it with a pre-recorded digital file before releasing any cash. Thanks to the iris's "fraud-proof" reliability...
...whites are more multicultural. Fair-haired dreadlocks are commonplace. Fashion designers knock off urban street trends rather than the other way around. Gay rights are assumed: the latest campus cause is discrimination against "transgendered persons." Body piercing has gone mainstream. As in the return of Hush Puppies and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Xer chic is often retroeclectic. "Compared to any other generation born in this century, theirs is less cohesive, its experiences wider, its ethnicity more polyglot and its culture more splintery," write historians William Strauss and Neil Howe in their new book, The Fourth Turning, a study...
...easier for him to break into than film or television, so he began composing for Kuumba and its a capella arm, Brothers. He hooked a keyboard to his computer so he could compose electronically and carried a dictaphone around with him, in case inspiration struck him on the daily trek between the Quad and the Yard...
News that the ashes of LSD guru Timothy Leary and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry have been put into orbit [NOTEBOOK, May 5] reminds me that according to Jewish tradition, the Prophet Elijah is already there. Just think, it took the Celestis firm and a 20th century rocket to accomplish what Elijah did thousands of years ago with a whirlwind and an old-fashioned chariot. WILBUR F. ENSEY Meadowlands, Minn...
Second, we are disappointed that upperclass students will now have only two days to move into their dorm rooms before registration. A long and leisurely orientation week has, in the past, been a chance for friends to get reacquainted after the summer, for roommates to trek to local stores for dorm decorations and for students generally to enjoy themselves before the onset of academic pressures...