Face to face

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Face to face

Have you ever helped out a chronically late buddy by punching his time card?

Apparently this happens a lot, because The Man is taking action: Employers are replacing time clocks with face-recognition scanners.

Your only hope is that your uglier co-workers break the thing.

Swords and sandals: The well-preserved remains of a Roman gladiator school were unveiled Monday in Austria. At the school 1,700 years ago, slaves, criminals and prisoners of war learned the finer points of fighting to the death.

Archaeologists won’t be this excited by a spectator sport-related find until the 38th century, when a dig at the site of the ancient settlement of Renton will unearth the Seahawks training camp.

Moonshine memories: Fifty years ago today, police and liquor control agents seized a three-gallon whiskey still in Lynnwood.

The still was confiscated with the help of Lynnwood’s controversial supercharged Flathead V-8 Ford traffic cams.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff