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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (292812)11/21/2010 1:06:16 AM
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<<...“A University of California at San Francisco professor of biochemistry told CNET today that the Obama administration’s claim that full-body scanners pose no health risks to air travelers is in ‘error’,” he reports. “The administration’s defense of the controversial machines, which use X-rays to perform what critics have dubbed naked strip searches, has ‘many misconceptions, and we will write a careful answer pointing out their errors,’ said John Sedat, a UCSF professor of biochemistry and biophysics and member of the National Academy of Sciences.”...>>

<<... The Washington Post’s Charles Krauthammer is also fed up: “This has nothing to do with safety – 95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary. The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling – when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, uniquely definable and universally known. So instead of seeking out terrorists, we seek out tubes of gel in stroller pouches.”....>>

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