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Bag’s Take-Away:
Open wide. Very wide. Not sure I could do this. He must be practiced at the scan. I’d need the device from Clockwork Orange.
(credit: Bikas Das/Associated Press caption: A man getting his retina scanned in Kolkata as part of India’s giant identification project. It also involves fingerprints and photographs and aims to give all 1.2 billion Indians an identity record and number for the first time.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
After the brouhaha in Columbia, is protection fading into the woodwork? I don’t know, it looks to me like an invitation to see this agent’s etchings will be immediately forthcoming.
via DayLife
(credit:Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images caption: A Secret Service Agent holds his tuxedo together as Marine One with US President Barack Obama lands on the South Lawn of the White House on May 8, 2012 in Washington. Obama was returning after traveling to upstate New York to speak about the economy.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Message to VIPs: Don’t go to South Korea for the Nuclear Security Summit, that last guy looks like the bomb.
(photo credit: Lee Jin-Man/AP caption: South Korean police officers cover a mock VIP during a police security demonstration in Seoul on Feb. 15, 2012. The Nuclear Security Summit will be held in Seoul from March 26 to 27.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Actualizing what was once just a feminist plot concept, this VII slideshow of “Hillary’s Angels” by Stephanie Sinclair, features the female security team assigned to Sec. Clinton. This shot, in particular, riffs off the logo from the original show. If the women played along with some of these scenes, I still wouldn’t want to get on anyone’s bad side.
VII Slideshow.
(photo: Stephanie Sinclair caption: Members of Clinton’s security detail do drills at their training facility in West Virginia.)
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