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...will make the security process much easier for prescreened travelers. But airport officials are supportive. "We love the idea," says Tim Anderson, an executive director of the Minneapolis--St. Paul International Airport. "It helps move us away from treating everyone the same and searching for the needle in the haystack...
...Krzysztof,” describes a young cowherd, likely in Poland, who encounters the effects of Nazi occupation. A soldier deduces from Krzysztof’s nervous manner that his identification papers are false, and so the boy must flee through the countryside, seeking refuge in a haystack. The soldier pokes for him with a bayonet...
...train station. "It's a leak from inside that little by little can grow," says Milan antiterror prosecutor Elio Ramondini. On Dunstable Road, the heart of the vibrant Pakistani community in Luton, an industrial town 48 km north of London, the perplexities of finding a terrorist needle in the haystack of a long-settled, law-abiding group of immigrants are manifest. Nearby are four houses the police searched as part of their raids. Muslim elders are disgusted by terror. "Our younger generation is going astray," says Anwar Khan, a retired university lecturer, "getting brainwashed" by the siren song of jihad...
...rather lacked the organization to use existing information meaningfully. Information-seeking measures established in the PATRIOT Act will not make prevent terrorism, she said, comparing the Act’s method to the concept “that if you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, you put more hay on the stack...
...bucktoothed pop songs and can therefore be listened to safely are few and far between. I can understand that this must be reassuring to some: things never change much, the song remains the same. But for the snob, the challenge is to find sublime needle in the cotton candy haystack without forever tainting the ear drums...