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Then, as smoothly as things started, the harsh airport fluorescents turn back on. Her dance-trot regresses to a sprint as she picks up her suitcase to rush to her flight. We’re left standing there, and all we can manage is a silent shout of “Wait! Come Back...
...Taoiseach cuts a dash internationally with his decisive role in Northern Ireland's peace process, which, he says, has "turned a corner" toward permanency. Despite his opposition to military action in Iraq, he has also managed cordial relations with Washington, allowing U.S. warplanes to refuel at Shannon airport while maintaining Ireland's traditional policy of neutrality. Yet there are forces at work that could still upset Ahern's apple tart: not least, cheap labor and the ingenuity of entrepreneurs in rising economic superpowers like China and India. Ahern claims Ireland's economy has attained "critical mass": around 1,000 multinational...
Checking in at the airport is like opening that present from your grandma on Christmas—you’re never quite sure whether you’ll be pleasantly surprised, or just...surprised...
Instead of having the TSA both regulate and operate airport security—a clear conflict of interest—we should leave the government to its proper oversight role and revert to the old system of private airport security provision. If the free market can protect Israel’s airports, where screeners are run by private companies, there’s no reason to believe it can’t guard American ones...
...catch the 9/11 hijackers, but there’s no reason to believe that TSA employees would have done a better job. Market incentives wouldn’t make procedures perfect—screenings will still be somewhat humiliating and abusive—but, as a whole, private airport security would be more effective, efficient, and risk-based...