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National ID cards aren't here yet, but the Federal Government is about to give us a foretaste. Soon to appear: Transportation Worker Identity Cards (TWICs). Envisioned as a universal credential to be carried by everyone in the transportation industry, from airport ramp workers to truckers and longshoremen, they are a response to complaints that despite new security measures, the various IDs that many ports and other facilities use are too easy to steal or fake. The agency is ready to begin testing several types of cards at the ports of L.A.--Long Beach, Calif., and Philadelphia--Wilmington, Del., according...
...sure there's due process," says Ed Wytkind, executive director of the transportation trades department of the AFL-CIO. "And that they single out not the person who committed a crime 20 years ago but the person who is a security threat today." Yet even those who are wary appear resigned. "We're not 100% behind it," says Mike Russell of the American Trucking Association. "But we realize it may come to that." --By Viveca Novak
Everyone knew a rebuilding year was in store for Columbia, but now that it’s headed for a winless season, people want blood. Losing, it would appear, is not Hill’s sin. The magnitude of it is. A fifth-place finish, as Hill posted last year, doesn’t offend Columbia’s sensibilities. A last-place finish apparently does...
...left and right? It should. The recent push to de-emphasize Ivy athletics hurts the league’s top programs a lot more than it does a Columbia, which has competitiveness issues beyond its head coaches and which, should it decide to fire Hill, will all the more appear to be acting for appearance’s sake. Armond Hill may or may not be the best person to lead Columbia basketball, but if he’s not, it shouldn’t be simply because of the shock value of the number in the school?...
...says that five to five-and-a-half inches was more common, and that many tactics were used to make the foot appear smaller. The tiniest shoes may even have been just for show...