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...earlier this year, and commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the New York-based art behemoth that has spread its museum tentacles to Bilbao, Berlin, Las Vegas and, perhaps next, Abu Dhabi. But what makes these five works stand out is not only the fascinating fingerprint of one of the 20th century's most influential collectors but the almost unbelievable logistics of bringing the works (conservatively valued at $15.3 million) by crane, boat, truck and plane from the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal...
...found little relief. Six FEMA trailers make up its headquarters. The traffic department and SWAT team also call several double-wide units home. Seventy-two officers have left the force this year. Of the 1,200 that remain (down from 1741 before the storm), there is only a single fingerprint examiner and only one expert firearm examiner. This year, the deadliest city in America has seen over 90 killings, eight of them in the past week and a half alone. In 2006, the city saw 161 murders (only one of which has resulted in a conviction...
CONTEXT The U.S. plan to build walls around at least 10 violent regions in Baghdad has drawn widespread criticism in Iraq--especially from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who thinks walls will aggravate sectarian violence. But the military insists that these "communities," in which U.S. troops will use fingerprint scanning to monitor residents, reinforce safety...
...over the aesthetic aspects of the painting, a forensic art expert named Peter Paul Biro found a more material way to answer the question of authorship. Instead of looking for a vague artistic “fingerprint” of Pollock’s style, he found a literal fingerprint on the back of the canvas that matched one on a blue paint can in Pollock’s studio.Years later, in 2002, a man named Alex Matter discovered a stack of 32 paintings in a Long Island storage facility. He was immediately aware of their potential importance.The paintings Matter...
Upson says keystroke authentication's accuracy could soon be applied to verify any Web-based data, like electronic medical records or tax filings. "Even a fingerprint can be altered," he says. "Typing? You probably couldn't change it if you wanted...