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...think is necessary. And most of the money has gone toward counterterrorism. While some counterterrorism equipment can be useful in other kinds of disasters, the money cannot be used to pay the salaries of state and local employees. That would violate an ideological position against making the Federal Government bigger (even though the Federal Government has grown under the Bush Administration through other outlays, like military and education spending). So $18 billion has gone out to states and cities, but most of it has been spent on shiny equipment like haz-mat suits and X-ray machines--even in cities...
...Hollywood - where egos, paychecks and breasts tend to run bigger than anywhere else in the U.S. - gift bags, also known as ?swag,? are generously handed out to presenters at each of the half-dozen or so major awards ceremonies that take place each year. Typically the bags contain tens of thousands of dollars worth of goods and services donated by companies eager to have celebrities using their products. Even the richest stars snag swag, and who could blame them...
...9/11 Commission and author of the 2006 book 9/11 and the Future of Transportation Security, says that since 9/11 "the privatized security and the federal screeners have performed as well as or as badly as the other. To Mr. Argenbright's point, 9/11 was a systemic flaw bigger than the failure of some screeners. Part of federalizing was to reassure the public that security was better. It was worth it for the public to know a major break had been made from the past...
...Some of the initial draconian restrictions have now been relaxed, and small carry-on bags are once again being allowed on transatlantic flights. But the new rules permit only carry-on bags that are about half the size of those permitted before last week: no bigger than 45 cm. by 35 cm. by 16 cm. (17.5 in. by 13.5 in. by 6 in.),about the size of a computer bag. In Britain, government officials are considering whether to make this rule permanent...
...important or interesting the stories are, and Digg posts them on its home page accordingly. The articles are tagged with the number of "diggs," or positive votes, from readers. Click on "Switch to Cloud View" in "Upcoming Stories" to see which stories are gaining traction (the headlines appear bigger). And don't miss the new Digg Labs page, offering two visual alternatives to displaying the same info: Swarm http://labs.digg.com/swarm) which looks like a cluster map, and Stack http://labs.digg.com/stack) which resembles more of an expanding and contracting bar graph. Watch the hype as it actually happens...