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...weeks ago, Pay By Touch was launched at the Thriftway supermarket in west Seattle. From now on, registered customers need only place a finger on a small scanner to cart off as many groceries as they want. Developed by Indivos, a consumer biometric company based in Oakland, Calif., Pay By Touch may be the best thing since the express-checkout lane. It allows shoppers to authorize credit-card and bank payments using a fingerprint, a copy of which they have placed on file. "People like it for the same reason they like speed passes at gas pumps--mobility and speed...
...debts owed to it by impoverished nations and stops the imposition of destructive economic policies.” In doing so, Cambridge joins a growing list of cities and institutions demanding change from the behemoth of globalization, including the usual suspects from California—San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley—as well as Boulder, Colo., Takoma Park, Md., and Milwaukee...
...work with inner-city children in Oakland, Calif., Campolo said he has found that black students consider carrying books to school “a white thing” and dream of becoming athletic stars rather than learning, a mind-set he said must be reversed to eliminate racial divides...
Among the schools that already have an automatic ticket for the dance are several teams that will probably be seeded below the Crimson because of their three-digit RPI rankings—Liberty, Austin Peay and Oakland...
...Oakland, 156th in the RPI as of yesterday morning, won the Mid-Continent conference last night with a 52-40 win over Valparaiso, who likely would have been seeded above the Crimson had it made the tournament...