Word: detectors
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...representative John Dingell was asked to drop his pants at Washington's National Airport last week, some people felt safer. Others, like me, decided that we'd lost our collective minds. A near strip search of a 75-year-old Congressman whose artificial hip has set off a metal detector - while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe - isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete...
...metal detector for this oddball essay on the lure of the forbidden, the lucidity of dreams. Lots goes wrong here, so we'll just pick on the dialogue. Cruz's English is often unintelligible; Lee, who plays the hero's intellectual friend, can't pronounce the word intellectual; and Diaz is forced to utter the most off-putting line in recent movies (let's just say it includes the word swallowed). The poor dear plays a character so shrill and needy that it makes Diaz almost not fantastically attractive...
...rage in California. Entrepreneur Michael Borer has tagged the item a must have in an effort to take anonymous venues for meeting other gays out of the chat rooms and onto the street. Gay men, and even lesbians, concedes Borer, will be able to carry a personalized detector of other gay people also carrying the device within fifty feet...
...million account holders have already opted to use face recognition for check cashing at Wells Fargo ATMs. Illinois uses the technology to check for fraudulent multiple licenses among 8 million driver's-license holders, as does West Virginia. And IBM has installed a portal system, with a metal detector in the door, to prevent employees from stealing computer chips at a factory in Ireland...
...differences in this new world? Garvey, like every other passenger, stood in longer lines, got grilled by newly assertive security guards, had to show photo identification repeatedly, and was twice stopped to get 'swept' by a guard with a sensitive metal detector. Then her plane got delayed for nearly two hours because of thunderstorms. Just like old times...