At first, I wasn't much of a fan of the whole-body scanners. I thought that we Americans should be allowed more dignity than to be stripped naked when we planned to board a plane. The whole-body scanners to me were an expensive strip-search solution that created as many problems as it solved. But over time, I have realized that there are many pluses to these contraptions.

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