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Since Jan. 18, thousands of Boston drivers have taken advantage of the latest blessing afforded them by the gargantuan public works project known as the Big Dig—a tunnel connecting Logan airport to the Massachusetts Turnpike. The three-and-a-half mile tunnel, which runs above an active subway and below Amtrak and commuter rail train lines, is an engineering feat for the history books. After 12 years and $6.5 billion, the tunnel officially completes Interstate Highway 90, which now reaches all the way across the country from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean...
...tunnel will undoubtedly provide relief for the city’s perennially congested traffic and be welcomed by countless Harvard students who make the trip between campus and the airport...
...look out for possible trouble. Though the number of FAMs has increased dramatically since Sept. 11, 2001, the exhausting and often boring job is causing morale problems. In response, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is about to take some agents off airplanes and reassign them to surveillance duty in airport terminals. The land-based FAMs will watch out for suspicious behavior and enter their observations into a specially configured Palm Pilot linked to a TSA database. The FAMs will be authorized to detain or arrest suspects. The TSA will not disclose which airports will be watched, but sources say Chicago...
Critics of the plan, including some airport directors and aviation-security experts, say it takes the undercover FAMs off planes, where they are most needed, and puts them in terminals already patrolled by local cops (both uniformed and undercover) and often by customs officers and Immigration and Naturalization agents. In addition, the FBI for years has had agents dedicated to airports, conducting surveillance. "I'm afraid they will all end up tripping over each other," says David Plavin, the U.S. director of Airports Council International. --By Sally B. Donnelly
...most peaceful place in town. Compared to America's saturated literary market, China's is hungry for talent. Often, Chinese authors are treated like stars. After I wrote a best-selling Chinese-language book about Berkeley, I went to Beijing to visit family and friends. At the Beijing airport, journalists pointed cameras at me and college students waved posters. Some readers even had me autograph their T shirts...