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...Nelson-Whitehouse bill would appropriate as much as $1 billion to help states move back to optical scanning (or any method that provides a reliable paper trail). "Unless someone can come up with a foolproof method of producing a paper trail with touch-screen machines, this is how we need to go," says Nelson, pointing out that attempts up to now to make DRE paper-trail compatible have too often led to printer paper jams and other "screw...
...rounded the corner from Brookline onto Comm. Ave, I saw the Bell and it rang for me. But upon reaching the storefront, my foolproof plan came tumbling quickly and painfully down...
...there much that Sderot can do to protect itself. Advanced anti-rocket laser systems are both prohibitively expensive and hardly foolproof against Qassams, which cost next to nothing to build. So, the town makes do with a basic early warning system involving a surveillance balloon moored on its outskirts providing a view over Gaza, and alarms that sound when there is a rocket launch. This gives residents about 15 seconds to take the nearest available cover. The city opened its bomb shelters on Tuesday for the first time since the 1967 war, 40 years ago. And the city school system...
...practical joke waiting to happen. As a method of birth control, it boasts a 98 percent success rate, and when used to protect against STDs, one incurs less than a quarter of the risk one might incur through unprotected sex. As prophylactics go, condoms are pretty solid, not as foolproof as abstinence, but a far sight safer than nothing...
Gerrymandering Isn't Foolproof...