Word: scanner
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...that end, most stores that sell alcohol pay outside experts to train their employees to catch fake IDs. They often have tools at their disposal: a book of out-of-state IDs to match up against suspicious attempts, and a scanner that allows them to verify many licenses...
...asking Vice President Al Gore whether he prefers his women in leather or lace. And what's more, he answers. (Lace.) Bush has tried to push away the microscope, remembering what happened to his father when reporters got it wrong about the President's understanding of a supermarket scanner. So each day starts at the ramparts, and the candidate glares at photographers who try to catch him with his tie undone or drinking a nonalcoholic beer...
...think the answer is obvious, you are prepared for the ultimate triumph of the brain science of tomorrow. The synapse scanner has been perfected, and you can download a backup copy of your mind into a chip that will outlast your brain. Unfortunately the scanner destroys the tissue it scans, so you have to choose between your old brain and a new one. The new brain will react and behave exactly like you--but would it be you? If you say yes, are you confident enough to step into the scanner...
...Never say test to a body my age. That's all the doctors do--a needle here, a scanner there. Everybody's always taking my temperature. Last week the docs were probing my leading indicators and found I'm actually healthier than I was the month before. Sound economies don't die of old age. They grow ill from excesses. Why doesn't everyone just relax and enjoy our time together...
Grow older, grow wiser. Last Shopping Period I had everything down to a science. Master scanner of syllabi and shuffler of classes, I could tell within minutes whether a class was right for me. I'd absorbed enough departmental and extracurricular hearsay to pick classes practically before the lectures began...