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...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...months have brought soaring comparisons between the recent gay weddings in Multnomah and elsewhere and the civil disobedience of the '60s. The Boston Globe called the U.S.'s 2004 gay marriages "acts of disobedience [fueling] the engine of social change." But the story of how Oregon managed to sneak ahead of Massachusetts in the marriage drama is not a story of outsiders fighting the system but of insiders using it. It is a story of how favoritism and influence work in politics just as well when liberal women run the show--the four Multnomah commissioners who orchestrated the gay marriages...
...surprisingly, the Department of Homeland Security took a lot of flak for the incident. After all, if a well-meaning college student from Maryland can sneak the requisite tools for a hi-jacking on board a jet, who’s to say that someone with far more sinister motives couldn’t do it, too? As it turns out, the TSA has known about its Swiss cheese airport security for a while. In July, 2002, it conducted an internal test of its security procedures at the 32 largest airports in America. Even with the newly instituted random checks...
...spend much of their time trying to avoid being connected to their U.S. employers. Many wear masks to hide their identities. "All the policemen are afraid," says Sergeant Walid Hani Hamid. "People think the Iraqi police are walking hand in hand with the Americans. We are forced to sneak back to our houses the way the mukhabarat did during Saddam's time...
After separating the false alarms from the potential catastrophes, Spahr forwards his calculations to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for final trajectory projections before heading home to sneak in an hour of bird watching before dusk. Planetary demise three decades away isn’t worth losing sleep over...