Word: stripping
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...might have uncovered Abdulmutallab's alleged plot before he had the chance to botch it with a bum detonator. Full-body scanners might do the trick, but they have their drawbacks. The ACLU has condemned backscatter X-ray and millimeter-wave-radar scans as the high-tech equivalents of strip searches. Furthermore, "every technology can be defeated one way or the other," says Vahid Motevalli, who studies aviation security at Purdue University...
...woman in her late 50s, played by Meryl Streep, 60, is an object of great desire. Her ex-husband, Jake (Alec Baldwin), who left her 10 years ago for a skinny meanie, has suddenly taken to eyeing Jane as if she were the comeliest pole dancer in his favorite strip club. Meanwhile, a lonely, reasonably attractive architect named Adam (Steve Martin) wants to take her to French film festivals and do the Wild and Crazy-guy dance with...
...fitting thought for cartoonist Joe Sacco to include at the outset of his latest piece of visual journalism. The unique form in which he operates--reportage translated into comic-book panels--is perfect for conflating time: then, now, it's all the same. Especially in the Gaza Strip, a land haunted by decades of bloodshed and oppression. Sacco, whose previous works include Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, investigates a pair of events, from November 1956, in which Israeli soldiers massacred hundreds of residents of the towns of Rafah and Khan Younis during the Suez Canal crisis. His reporting on those...
...Murren waited five years to welcome the world to CityCenter, the 18 million-sq.-ft., $8.5 billion resort complex that opened this week in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. When he took over as CEO of MGM Mirage a year ago, he was a youthful 47. "I'm now an old 48," he says, and he's got the gray hairs to prove it. That's because CityCenter came within a whisker of not opening at all, even as it was billed the most expensive private construction project in American history and thought of among locals...
...eager banks are over. Land is too expensive if you don't already own it. Banks are reticent to lend to developers who lack land equity and plenty of cold hard cash. MGM Mirage owns a larger parcel than CityCenter a few miles north of it on the Strip. It's unlikely the company will attempt a sequel. "I think people will quickly come to a conclusion that no one will ever top this," Murren says. "We've delivered in excess of people's expectations...