'We're not behind the piney curtain anymore.'
Maybe not. But Archie McDonald, a professor at Stephen F. Austin University in Nagodoches and executive director of the East Texas Historical Association, believes the region's terrain, culture and attitudes offer a near-perfect environment for laying low.
'East Texas, they respect your privacy if that's what you want,' McDonald said. 'Basically, we are a live-and-let-live people.'
The region's reputation as a criminal safe haven goes back to the Louisiana Purchase, when a boundary dispute between the U.S
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NIGHT CAMERA
The winning entry was from NoblePeak Vision Corporation, based in Wakefield, Massachusetts and founded in 2002 as a spin-off from Bell Laboratories: its night-vision camera can pick up short-wave infrared (SWIR) light invisible to the eye.
The black-and-white night-time images are much sharper than those generated by thermal video cameras, and applications include battlefield vision, protecting buildings and helping car drivers avoid collisions at night.
Other finalists included biometric technology to recognize keyboard users by their typing behavior -- sparing users from memorizing dozens of passwords -- and a hand-held device for testing exposure to nerve agents.
By scanning the eye, it can also detect carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning, or identify trauma to the brain.
Another company offered new high-strength fibers that get fatter when stretched and are highly resistant to blast damage, offering potential as special curtains to catch flying window glass in an explosion.
Also in contention was a 'face synthesis' device to create up to thousands of images from one photo, predicting how the subject will look in different lighting conditions, from different angles and with varying expressions or facial hair.
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