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...dangerous. After a two-day shutdown, American air space reopened tentatively last Thursday, under a list of strict new rules that many experts have been demanding for more than a decade: banning curbside check-in or parking, forbidding family and friends to accompany passengers to the gate, having security personnel check all planes before passengers board, conducting random searches of flight crews and equipment, and prohibiting the transport of cargo or mail on passenger jets...
Charles Sumner is watching you. You may never have noticed him, but he sits—day in and day out—spitting distance from Johnson Gate, ensuring that Harvard students—and numerous foreign tourists—are safe as they cross Massachusetts Avenue. During an anonymous public competition in 1875, the statue was nearly chosen to reside in Boston’s Public Garden as a memorial to honor Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. After the judges learned that the identity of the Sumner sculptor was that of a woman (Anne Whitney), they declared that...
...front of the security gate, a sign reads “Attention: beyond security checkpoint all persons may be subject to random searches, ID verification and ticket verification...
...This whole thing is short-lived,” says Jim Hutchigs, who works at Anthony’s Pier 4, a small store that advertises live Maine lobsters for tourists next to the American Airlines Terminal B security gate. He gestures to the airline employees in front of the security gate. “How long is this going to last...
...Hutchigs, who has watched countless passengers pass through the security gate in his months behind the Pier 4 counter, says he believes the security measures should have been implemented years before, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center...