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Saturday, January 17, 2004

The extraordinary becomes the routine:

a foreign traveler had his finger scanned last week at Kennedy Airport in New York.
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Color Crazed
Terror Policy: Between Fear and Freedom

"For every new border protection program - like the fingerprinting of many foreign visitors, initiated last week - civil libertarians and Arab-American groups express concern about ethnic profiling."