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...official UC blog and an online archive of past UC documents, Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said yesterday. The archive innovation is a product of the labors of UC Student Affairs Committee Chairman Michael R. Ragalie ’09, who used a feed-scanner to compile digital images of 10 years of UC legislation, minutes, agendas, and correspondence, and then did the programming to make the 200 documents—dating from 1982 to 1992—searchable. “The original goal was to have a way for council members to look...
...kind scanner used to digitize the plates was built piecemeal, largely by volunteers and workers at the observatory, and will be able to take 120 photos of two small plates—each measuring 8-by-10 inches—in just over a minute...
...hello), Spanish ("amigo"), English ("badge"), Arabic ("silah," or weapon) and Iraqi slang ("mamnoon," or thank you). During the course of a recent day of meetings in the Green Zone, I was sniffed by dogs six times, sent my bags through four metal detectors, was photographed once by a body scanner that can see through my clothes and was patted down too many times to count...
...government believes that use of the scanner will greatly improve airline safety. A full body X-ray scan can reveal carefully concealed plastic weapons or liquid explosives that metal detectors miss. A 30-second scan in place of a pat-down or strip search would also greatly expedite travelers’ painfully slow passage through security...
...legitimate criticisms in the future will be dismissed offhand. The government has never been afraid of targeting civil liberties in the name of national security in the past, but we would be foolish to assume that this is true for all governmental policies. In this particular case, the SmartCheck scanner, aside from being another minor inconvenience, certainly does not infringe upon our civil liberties any more than the ordinary metal detector...