U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed. The complaints ranged from concern about genitals being seen and the use of the devices on children, to anger over passengers not…
The Butterfly Effect February 10, 2010 2:58 PM by Zainab Salbi The World Through Tom’s Shoes The butterfly effect is a metaphor for the concept that small, seemingly insignificant events—like the fluttering of a butterfly’s wings—can produce tremendous and unanticipated consequences. In this blog, Zainab Salbi, the founder of the humanitarian group Women for Women…
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TO THE WILD Edgy and bold, the organic accessories revel in their raw and exotic splendor, inspired no doubt, by Maestres’s childhood in her native Colombia. Although she’s now based in Toronto, Maestre’s frequent travels, along with her respect of indigenous and tribal cultures, color much of her ethnic-inspired aesthetic. Maestre’s accessories showed up at…
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Even the most market-oriented capitalist would hesitate to encourage Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, or Boeing to produce more sophisticated weapons systems for other nations than we produce for ourselves, even if it meant huge profits for those companies and their shareholders. It would simply not be in our national security interest. Yet few voices are raised…
Readers Want ‘Better’ Digital Content Before They’ll Cough Up By Marion Maneker Posted Tuesday, February 23, 2010 – 2:40pm The Nielsen company conducted a survey of 27,000 consumers in 52 countries—now that’s a sample!—to find out more about readers’ attitudes toward paid content. What they discovered, and released last week, is that readers are not…