Word: porousness
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...those acts make Americans proud. But the national ID does not even compare with those sorry episodes. In and of itself, it's neutral. We will need to use the Constitution to prevent the card from being abused. We're no longer an island anymore. Fortress America is porous. The national ID card is an idea whose time will eventually come. And, in the end, I don't think it's such a bad one after...
...Confronted with the most horrible consequences of porous borders and relatively lax immigration policies, the U.S. public is largely prepared to crack down on illegal immigrants. So is Congress: Both houses are set to decide new immigration policies, including a statute that would allow the government to hold an illegal alien suspected to threaten national security for seven days without filing charges. After a week's time, authorities must either officially file charges or let the immigrant go free. (The previous limit on detention was 24 hours). This sounds like a Draconian measure compared to pre-September 11th regulations...
...Crimson struggled to gain consistent yardage—particularly in the first three quarters—against what should have been a porous Leopard defense...
Just how does a plane become a guided missile? The answer, in part, is that the air-security system in the U.S. is porous in so many ways that a breach was not surprising--only the incomprehensible dimension of it. For aviation experts, who are all too familiar with the gaping holes in the nation's vast network of 100 large airports, there was a sad, easy explanation for Sept. 11: you get what...
...much has been said before; but in a new departure, Hardt and Negri place mobility--not just of goods and services but of people too--at the center of their analysis. "A specter haunts the world," they write, "and it is the specter of migration." In a world of porous borders, the ability of nations to define themselves as discrete entities is bound to atrophy...