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WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has asked retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, one of his top foreign policy and military advisers during his campaign, to take the helm of NASA, according to a source informed of the selection.

Facial recognition technology approved at Va. Beach 7:45 p.m. November 13, 2001 Facial recognition technology will be coming to the Virginia Beach oceanfront. All but one council member voted to approve the program Tuesday night. It uses cameras to scan people on the street and in crowds and compares faces to ones in a computer database of suspected criminals. High-tech cameras like these can scan faces in a crowd and match them against a criminal database. photo: 13Newsfile Support for the technology increased after the September 11 terrorist attacks, particularly once it was learned that some of the suspected hijackers ...

Saturday Oct. 27, 2001; 2:31 p.m. EDT Clintonized FBI Fingers 'Right-Wing Hate Groups' in Anthrax Probe In a move reminiscent of the botched FBI investigations of the Clinton era, the bureau is actively pursuing weak leads suggesting "right-wing hate groups" are involved in the recent wave of anthrax attacks on the U.S. Meanwhile clear circumstantial evidence pointing to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden appears to have been placed on the back burner. Before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 the U.S. hadn't suffered a single case of inhalation anthrax since 1976. Still probers continue to insist they see no ...

Mayor Meyera E. Oberndorf on Monday criticized the police department's hope of using technology to scan the faces of Oceanfront pedestrians for wanted criminals. Remote cameras feeding images into face-recognition software would undermine the city's family-friendly atmosphere, she said, echoing the sentiments of some visitors and locals. ``I think it's totally inappropriate for a city that holds itself to be the safest city of its size,'' Oberndorf said. ``I don't think we need to put everybody through this trauma. . . . This is a question of invading the public's privacy.'' Oberndorf said she was unaware of the proposal until ...

Virginia Beach will learn next week if it will become the nation's second city - Tampa, Fla., was the first - to use facial recognition software to help officers snare criminals and find runaways, police said. The Beach has used closed-circuit TV cameras to watch the Oceanfront from the 2nd Police Precinct since 1993, largely for checking traffic and observing crowds. Under the new system, the 10 cameras would feed images of people as they strolled along the Oceanfront to monitors, where the software would sort faces against a database of mugshots, looking for a match, said Capt. Gregory G. ...

Colo. to 'map' faces of drivers By Julia C. Martinez Denver Post Capitol Bureau Wednesday, July 04, 2001 - First it was the photo-radar vans snapping pictures of Denver-area speeders. Now, some fear Big Brother's roving eye soon will be watching all of Colorado with the arrival of a new European import called "face recognition." The Department of Motor Vehicles, in an effort to prevent identity theft and driver's license fraud, is buying cameras that will map every driver's facial characteristics like a three-dimensional land chart. The danger, critics say, is that the technology could eventually be expanded to monitor ...

Last of Spy Plane in Philippines MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The last disassembled parts of a U.S. spy plane that collided with a Chinese fighter jet, sparking a crisis in U.S.-China relations, were flown off southern China's Hainan island Tuesday, the Navy said. The fuselage of the EP-3E and equipment used to dismantle the plane were packed onto an AN-124 cargo aircraft that arrived in the Philippine capital of Manila on Tuesday evening to refuel before flying to Honolulu, Hawaii. ''Things went extremely smoothly,'' said Navy Cmdr. John Fleming of the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii. ''It was a very ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Tired and defiant journalists at Russia's only independent nationwide television network stayed on the job all night after a takeover move widely seen as a Kremlin attempt to bring NTV to heel. The rebellion came after state-run gas giant Gazprom purged NTV of its leadership Tuesday. Gazprom's media subsidiary teamed up with a small, U.S.-based company to amass just over the 50 percent necessary to vote through the sweeping changes. NTV journalists canceled all entertainment programming beginning Wednesday in what they called an act of civil disobedience. Gazprom's move to take over NTV came as U.S. media ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Tired and defiant journalists at Russia's only independent nationwide television network stayed on the job all night after a takeover move widely seen as a Kremlin attempt to bring NTV to heel. The rebellion came after state-run gas giant Gazprom purged NTV of its leadership Tuesday. Gazprom's media subsidiary teamed up with a small, U.S.-based company to amass just over the 50 percent necessary to vote through the sweeping changes. NTV journalists canceled all entertainment programming beginning Wednesday in what they called an act of civil disobedience. Gazprom's move to take over NTV came as U.S. media ...

     China conducted the second flight test of a new intercontinental ballistic missile last month and is preparing for the third test in the next few weeks, a sign Beijing is accelerating its long-range missile program, The Washington Times has learned.      The flight test of the DF-31 missile was carried out in early November during the visit to China by Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Pentagon officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.      "This test and plans for the next one show they are moving ahead with their road-mobile long-range missile program," said one ...

------------------------------------------------------------------------ RETURN to Arkansas Section / Friday, December 8, 2000 Fact-finding briefs filed in Clinton disbarment MICHAEL ROWETT ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE The Arkansas Supreme Court committee seeking President Clinton's disbarment in a court filing Thursday denied two requests from the president's attorneys. Clinton's counsel wants the committee to admit that it has never initiated disbarment proceedings against a lawyer for actions not involving the attorney's law practice or not involving an attorney's felony or misdemeanor conviction.     The state Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct in its Pulaski County Circuit Court filing also denied a request from the president's lawyers ...

Army lawyers issued this directive: "There is a distinction between using words to reflect a personal political opinion as opposed to using words that indicate scorn or contempt towards officials. The time may be appropriate to remind officers to avoid contemptuous language in our speech and e-mail correspondence."