Most of our '800 Italian Opera masterpieces are pretty "revolutionary" indeed :-) I think that identifying people lecturing to kids is a correct practice for crime prevention etc. That said, Health-tests and body scan for security purposes, fingerprints vendors etc. are growing "new" businesses these days. I wonder about TB skin test and fingerprints requirements -- these sound even more extreme when one reads them from Europe ! Talking about effectiveness of measures, a positive TB skin scan does not mean anything - most medical doctors are TB+ - only a chest X-ray determine current TB activity. What if a volunteer expert on Opera would have lectured in a virtual environment, accessing kids' profile information ? What measures would be required to lecture to kids in an online Opera class? Monica -------- Monica Murero , Ph.D. AoIR Exec, 2003-2009; AoIR Treasurer, 2005-2009 AoIR Lifetime Member Director E-Life International Institute Associate Professor in Politics of e-Government and in Sociology of New Technology University Federico II, Italy Consultant, World Health Organization http://it.linkedin.com/pub/monica-murero-ph-d/16/52/606 Il giorno 20/nov/10, alle ore 19:08, Barry Wellman ha scritto:

Don't understand how lecturing to a classroom of kids for an hour on Tosca is working in close proximity. Although Tosca is subversive. As is Nabucco.

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