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Look out for those TSA body scanners and cell phones, take a minute to ponder the oddest book titles of the year (including "Bacon: A Love Story") and read all about the political collapse of the left, right here on today's list.
Look out for those TSA body scanners and cell phones, take a minute to ponder the oddest book titles of the year (including “Bacon: A Love Story”) and read all about the political collapse of the left, right here on today’s list.
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The Oddest Book Titles of the Year
100 Girls on Cheap Paper A Tortilla Is Like Life Advances in Potato Chemistry and Technology Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter An Intellectual History of Cannibalism Bacon: A Love Story (and more where that came from)
The Political Collapse of the Left Half a century ago, a new decade ushered in the rebirth of the American left and of those forces for radical change grievously wounded by the savage cold war pogroms of the Fifties. …
The Unexamined Dangers of TSA Body Scanners A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather.
Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health Ever worry that that gadget you spend hours holding next to your head might be damaging your brain? Well, the evidence is starting to pour in, and it’s not pretty. So why isn’t anyone in America doing anything about it?
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The airport security agency will discontinue the use of scanners that show travelers’ naked bodies, amid widespread cries of privacy violations.
After months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to explore the health effects of the agency's X-ray body scanners.
In as little as one year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will have a mobile, long-range, laser-based molecular scanner that can identify any chemical substance in or on your body -- including gunpowder, flecks of cocaine on your sleeve and the half-digested Pop-Tart in your gut.
It’s D-Day for pat-down protests and so far it looks like most people just want to get where they’re going AP reports that waits at major airports Wednesday morning were surprisingly short -- the TSA estimates 20 minutes or less .
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