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...Schleicher cannot divulge if he won—“They reserve the right to ruin my life and take my first-born child if I say how I did”—he did share that he and Trebek didn’t exactly get along...
...McCumber started Sixty Days, it seems, almost as a pre-emptive strike against other blogs that cover Seattle. "I'll be looking for ideas as we go along," he says. But he's not averse to batting the paper's eyelids at any civic-minded Seattleite with deep pockets. "[The P-I has] so many strengths," he wrote, "and I'm going to hammer relentlessly at them as the online infomercial part of this blog continues in coming days...
...behind items don't trigger police alerts. "On Inauguration Day," the system adds in a final indignity, "all Metrorail station restrooms will be closed for security reasons." (Luckily, the subway is setting up 146 porta-potties near its stations, and 5,000 will be located on the Mall and along the parade route...
...Obama, who is expected to give his inaugural address from behind a bulletproof shield, will be able to ride along the 1.7-mile parade route in his brand-new heavily armored Cadillac limousine. He'll be shadowed by Secret Service vans crammed with heavily armed SWAT teams and electronic-warfare gear capable of jamming detonators designed to set off certain explosives. Electronic devices - like those already in use in the D.C. subway - will be used above ground, to sniff the air for biological or chemical agents. They'll be aided by at least four Army dogs that will be sniffing...
...Everyone attending the festivities will be subject to a "thorough security screening," the Secret Service says, warning that "lines may be long" outside the 13 entrances along the parade route that will open at 7 a.m. on Inauguration Day. Everything that you think might be banned is. The list of items ranges from the "duh" variety - firearms, ammunition, explosives, knives and Mace - to the more mundane: coolers, thermoses, umbrellas, strollers and backpacks...