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Towns. you wrote at the public library, books were checked out not with beeps of bar code readers but with the scratches of pen on notebook paper. out on the street, police we problem. and youre right. you know kind of up close it seems like really small scale kind of stuff. but then when you stop to think that other cities, dozens of other cities are going through some of the same thing, you realize how big of a deal it is. in this case in particular, hackers on friday morning simultaneously us...

And theres really not much choice. >> if you dont have your phone, its almost impossible to live here right now. >> business consultant shaun rein says the mobile phone has become essential for living in china. >> you cant buy anything, you cant go anywhere, you cant book anything. you really have to be using your mobile phone on a really minute by minute-basis. >> and that new technology is everywhere. so even here in the street market, you pay for your dumpling soup and your fried roll with yo...

Door. the paper print outs are not expected to guarantee who you voted for. it could be a bar code. >> do agree with jason? >> it could be. i agree how the integrity of the election is up in the air and that is a problem. in terms of the timing, i dont disagree. but i live in new york. we are holding our primary for 2008 in a few days. i think dr. johnson is right. we could be in a situation where we are down to two or three candidates by time we get to georgia but that could make them powerful....

Just been dyed red. shredded paper its not dangerous but its brazen fraud. out about eighteen euros or grand its not surprising they try this especially because as youve seen you cant detect the fake just by looking at it with other spices the fakes pay off because there are so many large quantities. most of the fraud cant be detected with the naked eye for that you need a chemical analysis until recently the chemists had to carry out a separate test for every compound and they had to know exact...

Supplies the genetic fingerprint that looks much like a barcode comprised of millions of fragments of d.n.a. sequences. until recently only small amounts of such genetic information could be saved but now thats changed. now that computers have become so powerful we no longer have to choose just a few parts of a spectrum to save and discard the rest now we can save the entire spectrum. thats an enormous advantage now the chemist can store the genetic fingerprints of every sample when a new one ar...

. shredded paper its not dangerous but its brazen fraud. at about eighteen euros a gram its not surprising they try this especially because as youve seen you cant detect the fake just by looking at it with other spices the fakes paying off because theyre selling large quantities. most of the fraud cant be detected with the naked eye for that you need a chemical analysis until recently the chemists had to carry out a separate test for every compound and they had to know exactly what to look for b...

K >> reporter: fbi lab analysts are now taking the bombs apart bit by bit. everything that went into them is a potential clue. >> youve got pvc pipe for example. perhaps theres a bar code on that that might tell what store it was sold in. >> reporter: fbi and the new york police urge people anywhere in the u.s. to call in tips if they believe they know something that could help crack the case. federal prosecutors in new york confirmed thursday that the investigation which led to the guilty ple...

Powder and little glass shards to act as shrapnel. this is an investigate lead to try to figure out where it came from because many times it will have a bar code on it and that will help them find out perhaps where it was sold. so theres lots of investigative detail here to be looked at and the optimism is pretty high theyll be able to find a suspect soon. >> garrett what can you tell us about the two devices that were sent to the former vice president? >> well, as pete was just laying out, they...

Ask what made the modern economy, but the undercover economist looks at the subject differently and always puts a twist on any subject he covers and thats why i love reading his columns. his latest book called 50 inventions that shape the modern economy. tim harford, you have figured out what are 50 that shape the modern economy. actually, they are the fun ones, this is sort of -- not the steam engine or motor car, the ones that we dont appreciate, the ones we overlook the bar code or barbed wir...

Invader or illegals or infestation is what leads to the kind of atrocities we read about in authoritarian regimes around the world. it begins with the dehumanization and then catastrophe ensues. lets not forget the president has proven to us that hes incapable of logistics or realizing that logistics exist. it is not such a clear situation that they can return these kids. theyve offered us no proof that they took the time to record these childrens names in their parentage. what we do know is the...