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This guy goes from dope-smoking bar owner in Kazakhstan to $350 million in undeclared Pentagon income and nobody notices?

A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with ...

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New "Polish plumber": A humorous counter-blast from the east The Polish tourist board has come up with a seductive image of a Polish plumber to counter negative French rhetoric about east European ...

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Abstract: In this paper, we introduce the Minutia Cylinder-Code (MCC): a novel representation based on 3D data structures (called cylinders), built from minutiae distances and angles. The cylinders ...

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Foreigners in France are sometimes warned about the persistence of the 'Napoleonic code'. The Local untangles what the ...

The European Union's top diplomat says the EU will lift sanctions on Syria’s economy but keep those in place targeting the ...

A little noticed surveillance technology, designed to track the movements of every passing driver, is fast proliferating on America’s streets. Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars ...