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In the days before you could order both groceries and magazine subscriptions online, it was damn near impossible to walk through a supermarket checkout line without seeing the term “bikini body” plastered on glossies at the newsstand. By today’s standards, strapping two pieces of material onto any body fits the bill, but a decade ago, the term was still reserved for only those with six-pack abs and not an inch of perceived bodily "imperfection" in sight. The definition was so narrow, the ideal so unattainable, that when actress and runway model Kate Upton appeared in a bikini on her first...

Why the Israeli Airport Authority Doesn't Use Full-Body Scanners They don't work, are a monstrous invasion of privacy and a waste of money.  The Israelis, who've been a target of Islamic stupidity a time or two, must use these things - right?A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions of dollars to install "useless" imaging machines at airports across the country."I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747," Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state...

Dubai airports will not use hi-tech full-body scanners because they "contradict Islam" and violate passengers' privacy, according to reports — even though the scanners can detect terrorist threats like those posed by the Christmas Day bomber. Neither of Dubai's two airports will use the scanners "out of respect for the privacy of individuals and their personal freedom," the head of airport security for the emirate told Al-Bayan daily, AFP reported.

More travelers will be going through full-body imaging machines as the Transportation Security Administration shifts its three machines at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to primary use. The shift of the use of the machines at the main security checkpoint and international checkpoint means that in the lanes that have the full-body imaging machines, those machines will be the default system for screening passengers instead of walk-through metal detectors. Up until now, the machines installed in November 2008 had been used for secondary screening, meaning they were only used if a passenger set off a metal detector or was selected for secondary...