Word: airport
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...racist friends even helped him find a wife. "They wrote and asked if I was meeting skinhead girls," Leyden remembers. "When I said it was hard in Hawaii, white-power girls on the mainland started to write." Leyden clicked with Nicole Rodman, who met him at the airport when he returned to California. They had an Aryan wedding two weeks after meeting and were legally married...
...Thirty-three years ago, my wife gave me a bronze replica of a famous medieval crucifix. It has been in my carry-on luggage ever since. As long as carry-on luggage has been X-rayed, its discovery--or failure to find it--has been my private check on airport security. Abroad, at least 8 out of 10 screenings discover this object, and my hand luggage is searched; in Britain, 19 out of 20 screenings pick up my cross and result in inspections. In the many hundreds of times I have gone through the process in the U.S., having...
...blew off both his legs and one arm when a bomb he was assembling in an east Jerusalem hotel room accidentally detonated. Israeli security officials believe Mikdad was building the bomb using a powerful plastic explosive called RDX and planned to place it aboard a flight leaving Ben Gurion Airport. This was the first known time that Hizballah slipped an operative into Israel by way of an international airline. FBI agents are planning to travel to Israel to study Mikdad's methods for any telltale bits of bombcraft that may be traced to TWA Flight...
...podium looks like. The Republican National Committee and the San Diego Host Committee have overtaken two floors of a downtown office building, spending about $3,000 alone to rent plants and purchase floral arrangements for the space. And, in not necessarily detrimental but certainly unusual occurrences, streets connecting the airport to downtown are being repaved, billboards welcoming the GOP fleet are popping up and the homeless are being readied to disappear from downtown's boulevards...
Modern technology is such that these sick individuals are catapulted to power with a little gunpowder and some simple ingredients. There are books on the market, often purchased by children, detailing the construction of simple explosives, like the amateur pipe bomb recently found in LaGuardia airport. There is no escaping these realities; the work of our own hands has come back to haunt...