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...next time you’re at the airport security checkpoint, your luggage may not be the only thing that gets X-rayed. As reported in a recent New York Times article, the SmartCheck body scanner, the newest innovation in transportation security, made its debut at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix earlier this year. The scanner can see under travelers’ clothes to detect if they are carrying anything dangerous on board. But before you freak out, you should know the facts. The SmartCheck scanner causes negligible harm and may greatly improve airport security...
...SmartCheck machine is designed to scan a passenger’s body for guns and explosives and aims to increase the efficiency of secondary searches, which are conducted only after passengers have passed through the metal detector. The scanner provides those passengers selected for such searches with a less intrusive alternative to the pat-down or strip search. The machine is still in its testing stages, but is scheduled to eventually make its way into JFK and Los Angeles International airports...
Name: Michael Lord Manco-Johnson Year: 2008 House: Lowell Concentration: Social Anthropology Hometown: Blowjob City, Montana. Yeehaw! Ideal Date: Inexpensive. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Look really wasted. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Listen to a police scanner. About 6’ tall, Caucasian male, known to be drunk and suspected of first degree handsomeness. First thing you notice about a girl: 1. Full set of teeth? Check. 2. Depth of character. Your best pick-up line: You live in Weld? Have you heard of the Cleveland Steamer? Best lie you?...
...example, the classic taste test. P. Read Montague of Baylor College of Medicine performed his version of the Pepsi Challenge inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine in 2004. Montague gave 67 people a blind taste test of both Coke and Pepsi, then placed his subjects in the scanner, whose magnetic field measures how active cells are by recording how much oxygen they consume for energy. After tasting each drink, all the volunteers showed strong activation of the reward areas of the brain--which are associated with pleasure and satisfaction--and they were almost evenly split in their preferences...
Inspired by a true story, “Happyness,” whose intentionally misspelled title is based on a single flimsy scene, is a standard feel-good film with few twists or turns. Smith literally runs through the movie, lugging around a forty-pound portable bone density scanner, which he tries to sell unsuccessfully. His pace is exhausting, especially since he goes nowhere for the first hour...