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supermarket has given its customers the choice of paying by fingerprint at a
store in the state of Washington--and has found them surprisingly willing to
use the biometric system.
The gale tore into Baghdad yesterday, stripping
the walls of election posters, sending miniature whirlwinds between the shuttered
shops of Rashid Street, giving new meaning to the black hoods and masks worn
by the policemen at Tahrir Square.
Painting a rosier picture in Iraq.
Iran is under growing international pressure to renounce its suspected nuclear
arms programs, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday, but she
refused to rule out seeking UN action.
U. S. military authorities in the area had provided a
Sheikh who has been totally supportive of the U.S. occupation, 70,000 blank
ballots, supposedly to take to those who were too terrified to come to the
polls themselves.
