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Even following the attempted attack on the Northwest flight, critics remain resolutely opposed to the machines. "A knee-jerk reaction which sees body scanners, with their known drawbacks of passenger delays and privacy threats, as a magic solution is a bad move," says Sarah Ludford, a British member of the European Parliament. "In the Christmas Day case, as in the 9/11 and 7/7 [London] bombings, the failure was not to join the dots of available information." Advocates of civil liberties agree. Simon Davies, director of the London-based human-rights watchdog Privacy International, describes the scanners as a "fashionable...
...movie as "one that people go to see." Does that tautology make Transformers 2 a great movie? A lot of film critics - and even some real people - saw the film's popularity as some triumph of the clones. It's not that the killer-toy action adventure was a bad movie, though it was, but that it amassed its fortune almost by rote, as if its title alone, promising to duplicate the automaton thrills of its predecessor, justified laying down money for it. Transformers 2 didn't enter the national consciousness; it anaesthetized it. Nobody buzzed about the movie...
...think that is? Because when you involve love in the decision, the stakes become so much higher emotionally. When marriage is a legal contract like that, it's a business deal - and everybody knows it's a business deal. It's kind of like ending up with a bad boss; you can learn how to deal with it. People just have far more choices than they ever had. And that has both complicated and weakened and made more interesting the institution of marriage. Anybody who thinks that we're going to return to some sort of more tribal, feudal version...
...true networking fashion, people initially stood awkwardly in little clumps by alma mater, talking about how bad the economy was and how you, like, totally need to see Avatar. FlyBy joined the undergraduate clump and endured the regular firing round of questions (name, House, concentration). After idle small talk and some social lubrication, aided by the ridiculously long wine list and very reasonable drinking age of 19, the clumps started commingling. FlyBy felt immediately at home with the HCT because they, like this correspondent, were not that interested in American politics. Great...
...behavior. Good friends can not only help you through slip-ups but also help keep your New Year's resolutions from taking over your life. Rather than obsessing about what you shouldn't be doing, think about things you should, experts say. The distraction will help you curb bad habits. "Focus on your higher goals and positive activities, things that both sustain you and fill your life," says Peele. If you regularly engage in meaningful activities that give you pleasure - whether it's visiting friends, picking up a hobby, taking a class or doing volunteer work (one of the most...