Air Travelers Stripped Bare with X-Ray Machine
From USA Today
Excerpt: "The agency in charge of the nation's air security expects later this year to begin using a controversial X-ray machine that will show airport screeners a clear picture of what's under passengers' clothes — whether weapons or just bare skin...
...Security workers using the machines can see through clothes and peer at whatever may be hidden in undergarments, shirts or pants. The images also paint a revealing picture of a person's nude body..."
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Labels: national security, privacy

Firms can no longer take life insurance on workers
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Excerpt: "Companies statewide [WA] will no longer be allowed to secretly take out corporate life insurance policies on their rank-and-file employees under a law signed this week by Gov. Christine Gregoire. Through a practice critics call "dead peasant insurance," many companies, particularly large ones, had bought life insurance policies on workers without telling them. The companies then collected the death benefits, often long after the employee had retired or left the company..."

Also see: Dead Peasant Insurance

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US Eases Saudi Visa Restrictions
From Arab News
Excerpt: "US Ambassador James C. Oberwetter says changes in the US visa process would ease travel between the States and Saudi Arabia..."
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FLASHBACK: US VISA EXPRESS
From the American Embassy in Riyadh
6/25/2001
Excerpt: "Applicants will no longer have to take time off from work, no longer have to wait in long lines under the hot sun and in crowded waiting rooms, and no longer be limited by any time constraints. Effective immediately, ALL APPLICANTS will be expected to use the US VISA EXPRESS service offered by any of the selected companies listed below..."
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Labels: immigration, national security, Saudi