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...dotted with inspirational posters (JUST BECAUSE THE SITUATION IS TENSE ... YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE!), managers from American Airlines sat down recently to do something unheard of--exchange ideas with employees. From the back, a consultant acting as a "marriage counselor" observed silently as flight attendants and pilots, airport workers and reservationists, and even skycaps made suggestions about how to improve service for American's premium passengers. The rancor of early meetings was gone, replaced by--what's this?--a raucous cheer that went up when flight attendants learned they had won a round in a yearlong battle...
...went belly-up this year before finding a replacement. Work originally scheduled to be completed by April now has a wish-and-a-prayer July deadline, without landscaping or other embellishments. But the roof worked, and there are other bright spots. Greece has finished, on time, a brand-new airport, the Olympic village and parts of a new subway. The Markopoulo Equestrian Center is "an Olympic venue par excellence," said British equestrian Matt Straker, attending a recent test event. Athens itself, an ancient city with enough noisy charm to put Sydney and Atlanta to shame, is being spruced up. Some...
...American citizen who, according to government officials, received explosives training from al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and later plotted with al Qaeda lieutenant Abu Zubaydah to detonate a radiological bomb in the United States. Padilla was arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in May 2002. Since being classified as an enemy combatant, he has been detained in a South Carolina naval brig...
...college student from Maryland can sneak the requisite tools for a hi-jacking on board a jet, who’s to say that someone with far more sinister motives couldn’t do it, too? As it turns out, the TSA has known about its Swiss cheese airport security for a while. In July, 2002, it conducted an internal test of its security procedures at the 32 largest airports in America. Even with the newly instituted random checks, enormously inconvenient lines and physical patdowns, the screeners missed an average 25 percent of the fake weapons that TSA agents...
...with all this said, would it surprise you if I argued that our airport security procedures are doing their job splendidly? Well, they are, but not because they’re any good at catching terrorists, either real or simulated. When it comes down to it, all of the heightened security procedures at our airports and aboard our airliners (bulletproof cockpit doors, armed air marshals, and so on) are not designed to make air travel completely secure. They are meant to make us, the traveling public, feel as though we are completely secure...