Word: fleetly
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...only and starting to hit Americans to show support for bin Laden and solidarity with Afghans. COINCIDENCE? Nabil Al-Marabh, the Boston cabdriver arrested in the post-Sept. 11 antiterror dragnet, is a subscriber of the Globe, a tabloid published from the Florida building exposed to anthrax. SMALL AND FLEET: Small airlines get more secure faster. Mesa Airlines, based in Phoenix, Ariz., was first to put trained guards on flights, while mini-carriers Frontier and JetBlue had reinforced cockpit doors by early October...
...secured the use of two Pakistani bases, at Pasni on the Arabian Sea and at Jacobabad, where a fleet of U.S. helicopters and a Marine contingent have already landed. (Ostensibly, their mission is limited to search and rescue and the evacuation of Americans endangered by protests in Pakistan, though the Pentagon seems relaxed about the constraint. "There's not that much difference between a search-and-rescue and a search-and-destroy mission," says an official.) The price for this help? Islamabad won't tolerate a postwar government in Kabul dominated by the Northern Alliance...
...attacks of Sept. 11 have spurred the trucking industry to improve its lax security. Some technology is already available. A security feature installed in some trucks is a tracking device similar to the transponders used on commercial jets. The device beams a truck's location by satellite to fleet managers, while a two-way messaging system allows drivers and trucking officials to stay in touch. Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego offers truckers a panic button. When it's pushed, a ping sounds in the company's network management center, a NASA-style command base with 31 computer monitors...
...Across the now mostly metaphorical Fleet Street (few London papers still have offices there), he got some solid Tory backing. The Telegraph's Boris Johnson agrees that the Labor lefties and many of his conservative colleagues have plenty of valid concerns, but that toppling the Taliban and eliminating Bin Laden make waging the war an essential responsibility." There is always a period of Fleet Street nervousness, during any war. It happened during the Gulf. It happened during the Falklands. So come on, you Peggy Panics. Remember Margaret Thatcher on that very conflict: 'The possibility of failure does not exist...
...solutions favored by majors like United and American, such as rigging a horizontal bar across the cockpit door, chiefly because they could: the big carriers have hundreds of planes to retrofit, and that takes time and money. Frontier, which has both Boeing and Airbus aircraft in its 31-plane fleet, decided that the bars weren't up to the job. "[That bar] is simply a feel-good measure," says one pilot from a major carrier. Frontier's engineers were unable to find any acceptable hardened cockpit doors quickly and eventually built their own from scratch. They will have shallow metal...