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...Though the machines are not capable of storing, printing or saving images, and scans are deleted as a passenger steps away from the device, there's still a chance pictures could be exploited and appear on the Internet, says A.C.L.U. privacy expert Jay Stanley. He also thinks backscatter is immodest. "Some people are ashamed to expose even their arms or their shins," says Stanley. In Phoenix they might have to drive...
...alone from the family fold is surely fair game. She would be better off finding some nice secretarial work close to home or meekly holding the boat steady while her menfolk make merry. Or, as Mansfield would have it, perhaps I was responsible for endangering myself by being so immodest as to travel alone (at night no less!).Auspiciously, both Western and the more traditional Vietnamese gender roles are being broken down. Here, more and more women defy social conventions, stepping beyond family and farm to create their own economic opportunities. Try telling Trang, a woman I met who works...
...power of both scientific and spiritual perspectives to bear on understanding what is both seen and unseen," he writes, maintaining that those perspectives "not only can coexist within one person, but can do so in a fashion that enriches and enlightens the human experience." And without seeming particularly immodest, he offers his own experience as Exhibit A. (See people finding God on YouTube...
...more irritating this year because U.S. coaches think they can top the long-dominant Austrians in Torino. The USSA motto - Best in the World - may sound immodest, but the team heading to Italy may well be the most talented group of skiers the U.S. has ever assembled. Miller's teammate Daron Rahlves, in fact, was sensational in winning the Lauberhorn downhill at Wengen. John McBride, the men's speed coach and a Miller confidant, acknowledges that the dustup "had been a team issue." But it's not, he adds, "like Bode's turned into...
...materialism inherent in the doll, had her espouse all sorts of the craziest ideas one witnesses in the Middle East, only in the lingo of Barbie.So just as Talking Barbie might exclaim, “I hate math!” and appear trussed up in the most immodest garb imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient’s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie, would have to seek out her misplaced abaya, the full-length garment...