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...trucked from Sydney and installed in a white booth in Menzies' town hall. Persuading 130 people to enter, strip naked and allow a red beam to scan their bodies for 15 sec. was an achievement in itself. "It was like trying to get a mob of sheep through a gate," says Kath Finlayson. "They'd all break and go everywhere." Here the cowboy qualities of Ronald Hogarth were called upon. As Finlayson tells it, "I said, 'Hogie, look you haven't had a bloody missus for 30, 40 years, come on. No one wants to look at what...
Taking Off from Gate 3: Tourism...
...bucks for an in-flight meal recently? That's because cost-cutting airlines don't want to pay for expensive food anymore. So the now empty-handed caterers are going after your business directly. Leading the way are two of the industry's biggest caterers, Switzerland-based Gate Gourmet Group Inc. and Germany-based LSG Sky Chefs. "Before, our customer was the airline," says David Siegel, former president and CEO of US Airways Group Inc. and Gate Gourmet's newly appointed chairman and CEO. "Now, it is the passenger." How do passengers feel about forking over money for food? Dalene...
...address is a suspected hideout of foreign fighters allied with Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, thought to be the mastermind of the recent wave of insurgent violence. Bravo has been joined by some special-forces soldiers, and together they come barreling out of their vehicles, clamber over a metal gate and charge into the house...
Ports have been another site of suspicious activity. On June 24 at the Benicia Port terminal, 24 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, a photographer fled as police approached him twice on the same day. A few days later, a Middle Eastern man was spotted training a camera on the terminal piers of New York City's Staten Island ferry. Law-enforcement sources have had reports of suspicious photography of ferries in California, Texas, Louisiana and Washington State. In yet another incident, a guard confronted three Middle Eastern men who were photographing and videotaping the Towne Square Mall in Boise...