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...massive Department of Homeland Security functioning properly. "I'm inclined to think that we probably ought to do it in an evolutionary fashion, rather than the Roberts dramatic surgery," this official said. "It's just too hard for bureaucracies to adjust to. Look at Homeland Security and the birth pains they're having." Roberts insisted that he is not proposing "terminating the CIA." Instead, he argued, "We are making it more powerful. We are actually giving them more authority to do the job that they have to do." Still, many at the CIA were left to wonder whether the proposed...
...open all night so that sports fans could catch every second of live action in Athens. With hundreds of millions of Chinese tuning in to the Games, state broadcasters admitted that viewers were even being siphoned away from the endless documentaries celebrating the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth. China dedicated three national channels to the Olympics, and the country's state media dispatched 160 reporters to Athens. Cui Ying of the Shanghai Morning Post, a daily with a circulation of 600,000, estimated that her paper will spend about $120,000 covering the Games. Still, hefty advertising...
...These are daunting challenges, particularly for a Prime Minister with uncertain freedom of action and no previous experience of elected office. We must hope that Musharraf has the vision to allow the birth of a Pakistan that is never again ruled by a general, and that Aziz is given the chance to supervise the delivery...
...fable from the 3rd century B.C. refracted in modern skepticism, Hero views the birth of the Chinese nation through the murky motives of some of the first Emperor's potential assassins. The plot is a series of tales told by the warrior Nameless (Jet Li) to the Emperor (Chen Daoming). Any or none of the stories may be true; this is Rashomon with a Mandarin accent...
Iris and fingerprint scanning, onetime biometric techniques of the future, may soon be things of the past. The newest trend in high-tech identification scans the veins in your hand. Scientists noticed that vein patterns in the fingers and palm stay in the same place from birth, and the arrangement of veins in each person is unique. By shining a light at the hand or finger and then capturing an infrared digital image, devices developed by Fujitsu, Hitachi and other Japanese firms can ID people in an instant. The first systems will soon appear in Japanese banks to verify...