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...that it takes too long to pick out the intricate patterns of ridges that distinguish one person's fingertips from the millions on file. Before computers, these patterns were classified into eight categories of arches, loops and whorls. To speed up the search, the FBI's system concentrates on simpler patterns: the so-called points of minutiae, where a ridge line ends or a single ridge splits into two. A thin beam of light scans each print and records the location of up to 100 minutiae. The computer then converts these data into numbers that can be stored on magnetic...
...reasons are simpler for people like Chandler Robinson of Fort Worth, a retired engineer, who with Wife Julie forsook his lifelong Episcopal affiliation to join a conservative Baptist church. Says he: "The more we found ourselves maturing in Christianity the more disappointed we became with the spiritual food we were receiving. We were looking for someone to teach us out of the Bible." The Rev. W.A. Criswell of Dallas, 76, the leonine patriarch of the Southern Baptists' insurgent Fundamentalist wing and pastor of their largest congregation, charges that liberal theology "empties the churches. Wherever liberalism places its leprous hand, there...
...crowds. Steve's/Herrell's dissidents will insist that Emack and Bolio's (1310 Mass. Ave) is the best in the Square. There's a lot of truth to their argument. Try the chocolate-and-Health-bar-dipped gourmet cones. On the other hand, if you go more for the simpler flavors, there's Baskin Robbins (1230 Mass. Ave). Neon-lit Haagen Daz (in the Galeria) is fine if you've got money and you're not interested in volume. Brigham's is the Howard Johnson's of the Square, with fewer flavors and cheaper prices. Bailey's (21 Brattle...
...Congress, he predicted grandiosely, it would produce a "great new era of progress, the age of the entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...
...battle over tax reform and the minimum tax promises to provoke the most heated lobbying that Capitol Hill has seen in years, much of it aimed at protecting the myriad tax deductions enacted over the decades. But with the polls clearly showing that the people want a fairer and simpler tax code, the leaders of both parties seem eager to follow. Now that the President appears ready to join the battle, tax reform may never have a better chance of getting past the proposal stage...