STERNER WORLD

FILE--Anke Paetzold of the Federal Mint is seen on the screen of a biometric device that scanned her face, at a security gate during a press conference in Berlin, in this Dec. 12, 2001, file photo. In parliament chambers and cabinet rooms around the globe, the fears and suspicions of a world on edge are fast translating into the cold legal language of police power. These stern new anti-terrorism laws have now themselves, for some, become a cause for worry. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)