Tuesday, May 18, 2004

W I R E D N E W S Top Stories - 09:15AM 17.May.04.PDT
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Getting Naked for Big Brother (Business 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/business/0,1367,63450,00.html/wn_ascii

People are willing to strip for Uncle Sam and accept surveillance
technologies to protect them from terrorists, though the privacy
invasions won't make them any safer. Kim Zetter interviews the author
of The Naked Crowd.
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Hy-Wire Driving Is a Gas (Autopia 2:00 a.m. PDT)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63467,00.html/wn_ascii

Taking a ride in a hydrogen-powered car of the future can be a bit
disconcerting, unless you like driving with no steering wheel or floor
pedals. A product review by Kari Lynn Dean.
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UK Scientist Fears Genetic Bias (Med-Tech Center Saturday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63483,00.html/wn_ascii

What if insurance companies and employers use genetic tests to
discriminate against people with an increased risk for certain
diseases? A Nobel laureate wants laws in place to protect people.
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Did Rumsfeld OK Prison Tactics? (Politics Saturday)
http://go.hotwired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63485,00.html/wn_ascii

New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh writes that Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld authorized expanding a secret interrogation program employing
abuse and humiliation of prisoners from Afghanistan to Iraqi prisons.
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