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...Conklin (Chris Cooper). They don't want to get tangled up in the loose ends of his previous failure--congressional oversight and all that. They have all the latest electronics to aid them. He has only Marie (Franka Potente, late of Run Lola Run), whom he picked up in Zurich, but she is a game gal--and an unglamorously appealing...
...combatant." The reason is that al Muhajir had allegedly been trained by al-Qaeda in Pakistan to build a radiological bomb, and sent to the U.S. to reconnoiter possible targets. He'd been arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on May 8, after having flown in from Zurich under the watchful eyes of FBI agents...
...Muhajir was reportedly tracked following an arrest in Pakistan in April on a passport violation. The FBI and CIA (working together, please note) had followed him through Europe and onto a Chicago-bound plane from Zurich. (U.S. officials made sure airport security carefully check his belongings, particularly his shoes.) They arrested him immediately on landing in Chicago, hoping he would cooperate. (He hasn't, according to reports.) The decision to nab him early rather than monitor his movements in the hope of revealing a hidden network already operating in the U.S. also raises important questions. For one thing, it means...
...Christine. But the fiction behind these devices is rapidly becoming fact, and Ada - a room-sized artificial intelligence system on show at the 2002 Swiss National Exhibition in Neuch?tel until Oct. 20 - is living proof. Developed at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Ada is a mirror-clad room outfitted with its own electronic eyes and ears that is capable of interacting and communicating with visitors. A matrix of ceiling cameras monitors guests as they move about inside the room, while directional microphones pick up sounds ranging from whispers to shouts. Even...
...President Jacques Chirac appeared to be heading for a landslide victory in the second round of voting, Le Pen addressed about 10,000 of his supporters in Paris. In contrast to the peaceful gatherings in France, May Day clashes between police and a minority of demonstrators occurred in Berlin, Zurich and London...