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...characters in B.C., the Stone Age comic strip created in 1958 by Johnny Hart, made readers laugh by pondering naively the wonders of fire, stone and the wheel. (A prehistoric dictionary defines rock as "to cause something to swing or sway--by hitting them with it!") More controversial were the religious panels Hart occasionally drew after he converted to evangelical Christianity. A 2001 Easter strip of a menorah slowly transforming into a cross led several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, to drop B.C. Hart, who told a reporter that "Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will burn...
...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...
...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...
...ACLU) disagrees. The ACLU has wasted little time in rallying its lawyers to persuade Congress to ban the use of such technology for routine security screening. Because X-rays pass through clothing, an ACLU officer, quoted in the New York Times, dubbed the scan a “virtual strip search,” claiming that the additional security of the scan is not worth the loss of passenger privacy...
...Potential donors are worried that charity will be wasted or create dependence," says Jonathan Morduch, an economics professor at New York University. But the most influential microlenders--Yunus' Grameen Bank, FINCA, Accin International--are self-sustaining and profitable. They strip away the bureaucracy common to aid programs of governments and large foundations, and repayment rates of 97% are the norm...