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...modern vessel, built during the Cold War and armed with missiles, torpedoes and a 76 mm gun. But one of Bosco’s jobs next year might be more in the tradition of John Paul Jones: boarding a ship and searching compartment after compartment for terrorists or contraband...
...checks, enormously inconvenient lines and physical patdowns, the screeners missed an average 25 percent of the fake weapons that TSA agents were carrying on their person or in their bags. At Cincinnati, one of the most traveled airports in the country, screeners missed an incredible 68 percent of the contraband items. There are other gaping holes in airline security, as well. One of the most glaring examples is the cargo carried aboard passenger flights, which for the most part goes completely without inspection. Only recently, the government began screening an undisclosed (but certainly small) percentage of this freight traffic...
...beings--has consistently turned down glamorous leading-man roles in large, profitable movies so that he could play a chorus of memorable (to those who saw them) character parts, like Cesar, the Gypsy horseman in The Man Who Cried, or Bon Bon, the Cuban transvestite prostitute who smuggles prison contraband in his rectum in Before Night Falls. Only Crispin Glover's representatives have suffered more for their percentage...
When Fiona Sigalla crossed back into the U.S. from Canada a few days after Christmas, she expected the usual questions about firearms--routine in these times of terrorist threats. But the border cop in his bulletproof SWAT uniform took one look inside her car and immediately seized the contraband held by Sigalla's 8-year-old daughter: her lunch leftovers. "He looked slightly embarrassed, but he confiscated my McDonald's trash," Sigalla says with a chuckle. "Of course, you notice that I wasn't afraid to purchase a McDonald's hamburger, even in Canada...
...French cigarette prices to the third-highest in Europe (behind the U.K. and Norway ), and increases revenues to treat tobacco-related diseases that cause 66,000 deaths in France annually. Infuriated French tobacconists claim the move is pricing them out of business, and encouraging the import and sale of contraband cigarettes. But the price hikes are at last inspiring French smokers to kick butts. Last year, the number using nicotine patches grew by 30% to 2 million; antidepressants prescribed for quitting smokers rose by 20%. A big year for France 's tough-love tax. - By Bruce Crumley Work Longer! Troubled...