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...Angeles International Airport is not my favorite place. I’ve lost more luggage there than I care to mention, it is devoid of skylights that might help travelers’ body clocks travel over the Pacific a little faster and it has peculiarly bad food—worse than a number of regional airports in decidedly poorer countries. It is the sort of place where you just want to listen to music and make your few hours of layover pass as quickly as possible...
...members of the Harvard College Democrats helped carry the Kerry campaign one piece of luggage at time, when they met the Democratic presidential nominee last Friday at Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford, Mass...
...students shook hands with John F. Kerry and then unloaded the luggage of the campaign and press corps at the airport. Another team of 10 College Dems met the motorcade at the hotel and carried the bags from the curb...
This past Wednesday United Airlines Flight 919 was ordered down; Homeland Security’s Advanced Passenger Information System detected a member of the Terrorist Watch List on board. The flight made a special landing at Bangor International Airport where the would-be terrorist was unloaded and detained. The remaining passengers continued on to Dulles International in Washington, D.C., while Yusuf Islam was interrogated and sent back to London via Boston and Washington...
...reminders of the country's vulnerability are hard to avoid. Government authorities announced last week that two female suicide bombers who carried out the attacks that brought down two passenger jets in August had actually been stopped at the airport by counterterrorism officers and then released without being searched. The unspoken assumption is that they bribed their way onto the planes. And Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev posted a message on a website last week claiming responsibility for the plane bombings and the school attack, noting that Beslan had cost a total of just $9,700. The government promptly blocked...