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The prospect of implementing the SmartCheck nationwide should sound great to most rational people, but the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) disagrees. The ACLU has wasted little time in rallying its lawyers to persuade Congress to ban the use of such technology for routine security screening. Because X-rays pass...
They have already failed to do so once. The Ohio Supreme Court rejected the plantiffs' argument that Lawrence created a new fundamental privacy right that made laws restricting consensual, private sex among adults unconstitutional. Instead, prosecutors successfully argued that Lawrence said only that anti-sodomy laws bore no rational relationship...
Rational objections have rarely stopped massive Japanese infrastructure projects in the past - hence that huge debt - and Terai insists that the maglev makes technological and financial sense. "For us as a company and Japan as a country, this is a 21st century project," he says. "We need speed." A nation...
And also, sometimes, uncanny. So much has been made about the rational character of the Pompidou that it's easy to overlook its enduring strangeness, the climate of uneasy feeling it creates as a building disemboweled, with its intestines and even its skeleton on display. Sitting on the broad, cobblestoned...
It is perhaps the most rational strategy in all of sports, yet every March, and throughout the college basketball - and NBA - season, elite coaches fail to make a move that any barstool Bobby Knight would surely recommend (and will surely scream at the TV). With your team up three points...