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...purely visceral kind: no aliens from outer space, no philosophical musings about man's place in the universe. All the movie has to do is show us a familiar, alarming menace - the aforementioned snakes - slithering around in a closed, inescapable space - the aforementioned airplane - threatening its customary human cargo, which will be familiar to anyone who remembers passenger list of, say, The High and the Mighty or the Airport series of yore. You know this crowd - the brave, the mean, the selfish, the feckless, most of whom, when the crisis peaks, are capable of being whipped into an effective fighting...
...reasons best known to the slightly desperate screenwriters (John Heffernan and Sebastian Gutierrez), it is a master criminal who rounds up every known type of deadly snake from the four corners of the world, introduces them into the cargo hold and hots them up with pheremones (the creatures are passive, we are told, except when they have sex on their very tiny minds). I especially liked the gigantic boa constrictor, which is used to grisly comic effect a couple of times in the course of the movie. But never mind - each of you will have your special favorites among...
...domestic and 28 European airports. That business vanished soon thereafter when the Transportation Security Administration was created. Argenbright started his new company, AirServ, in 2002, contracting with airlines to provide workers who check passenger IDs at checkpoints, along with services such as ticket processing, bus transportation and cargo handling. And now that his business once again could be supplanted by the federal government, the airline security entrepreneur is not shy about expressing his ongoing frustration...
...government scrambles to defend against the newest threat, it runs the risk of shortchanging more pressing ones. Investing in body-scanning machines or prohibiting carry-on luggage might provide a degree of security against liquid explosives, but such steps would do nothing about the fact that most of the cargo shipped on passenger planes goes entirely uninspected--for bombs or anything else. DHS relies instead on a program it calls Known Shipper, which leaves it up to air carriers and freight forwarders to screen regular cargo customers so they can load boxes onto planes with only spot inspections. The Government...
...called their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt but the whole world's waste," says Mohammed Borhan, director general of coastal and maritime zone management for the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Pollution, like overfishing, threatens fish stocks...