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...addition, Carlos recalls being offered money "for sex" more that once. He clarifies that the money is not a proposition but a request to restrain his sometimes wandering eyes from the rearview mirror. "They tell me, 'Just drive around.' But I say, 'No way.'" Carlos assumes there are other cab drivers who don't care about sex in the backseat, and take the money...
Laws are bad weapons in the fight to protect privacy. Once we invoke the law, the bad deed has ordinarily been done, and society has lost. Attempting to restrain technological progress is another bad strategy--it's a fool's game and won't work. The best method for protecting privacy in 2025 is the same method we have always used: teaching our children to tell right from wrong, making it plain that we count on them to do what is right...
...tall strip of a photograph encased in steel channels. The once whole image becomes disembodied arms and legs. Because the continuity of the photo is broken up into segments, the original configuration of limbs is illegible. Are the intertwined bodies screwing or fighting? The frames of steel enclose and restrain the photograph's action, while the progression from one strip to the next increases the ambiguity of a presumably objective art form...
Israel became militarily involved in Lebanon only because the Lebanese government--dissolved during its long civil war--could not restrain terrorist organizations using its territory to strike against Israeli civilians. After repeated attacks on Israeli towns, the Israeli Defense Force entered Lebanon and established an approximately nine-mile wide security zone. As CNN reported on Feb. 9, "Israel established the zone to protect its northern settlements from cross-border guerrilla attacks...
...bullet"; detractors will claim the test proves their claim that the system is a multibillion-dollar waste of time. And Russia will fume at Washington's disregard for the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which sharply limits the deployment of such systems. Still, don't expect that to restrain politicians on both sides of the aisle from lavishing billions of dollars on the program - it's enormously popular on Capitol Hill, and unlikely to be scaled back in an election year no matter how poor its report card. The irony is that long-range missiles aren?t exactly the preeminent...