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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...
TRUE LIES Next time you tell a little white lie to your spouse or boss, be sure they're not holding a Truster. This portable lie detector from DreamQuest analyzes sonic waves in the voice for signs of stress and claims 85% accuracy; it even plugs into cell phones. Campaigning politicians everywhere, beware...
...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...