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...Over the past six years, Wells Fargo has opened 1 million accounts for Mexican nationals living in the U.S. by becoming the first bank to accept the Matricula Consular identification card that Mexican consulates in the U.S. began issuing after 9/11. A growing number of banks, including KeyBank and Union Bank of California, are also offering low-cost check cashing as a way to encourage people to convert to regular bank accounts. To reduce the risk of fraud, KeyBank also requires thumbprint...
...years ago it would have taken a police agency months of shoe leather and paper hunting to assemble the kind of information that is available on a cell phone's internal memory and which can be extracted by a deep probe. Says Chris Calabrese of the American Civil Liberties Union technology and liberty program: "They contain a great amount of information that essentially is a subjective picture of our habits, our friends, our interests and activities, and now some even have location tracking...
...satellite technology has already proven successful overseas and in the U.S. The European Union has upgraded to satellite technology in its air traffic control systems. Package delivery company UPS uses the technology in many of its planes and at its hub in Louisville, Ken. The FAA has also been testing it since the late 1990s in Alaska, which had a high accident rate because of the rough terrain in the state. Since the satellite technology was installed on small planes in Alaska, its accident rate there has declined 40%, says Blakey...
...able to fly closer together. Blakey insists the planes will be at safe distances, but for air traffic controllers that's not enough. "We have 1100 fewer air traffic controllers working today than we did on Sept. 11," says Doug Church of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, a union currently in a labor dispute with the FAA. Air traffic controllers are already overworked, Church adds, and NextGen does not address the staffing issue...
...Faust did not add her name to the full-page ad, continuing Harvard's tradition of not signing onto petitions, but she had previously written a letter—on July 2, her second day in the office—to the University and College Union voicing her "strong opposition to this measure...