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...airport-security measures passed by the U.S. Congress will do little to improve the situation in the short run [AIRLINE SAFETY, Nov. 26]. One quick solution would be to provide a monetary incentive to security screeners for each and every bomb, knife and other dangerous object found. Federal supervisors could verify the found objects, and bonuses would be based on the number of weapons found. Although funding would be required, the cost could be more than justified by screeners highly motivated to do a better job. It should provide an immediate security improvement, even before more qualified security personnel...
...Last year, the Honorable Mention All-Ivy selection led the team in scoring, assists and minutes played. He did it all without even practicing, as he tried to baby his injured shoulder which had undergone unsuccessful experimental surgery over the off-season. Unfortunately for Yale, he went under the knife again this off-season, sidelining him until January, although he should return for the start of the Ivy campaign...
...words I remember most—it’s the mess. Editing copy on coarse yellow sheets of paper, the type from the old machines upstairs so uneven you had to notice the way the letters made themselves. Doing paste-up with an X-acto knife that more than once sliced my finger open, smearing blood onto the layout sheet. Swiping down the dripping offset plates so they could be loaded onto the cylinders. Scrambling to scoop the fresh-newsprint-smelling pages as they swarmed off new, and then gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped...
Massita picks up one knife and explains how it is used to remove the clitorises of young women. Her mother did the same job before her, she says. And her grandmother. "These are the very knives they used...
...becomes more common for young women to shun circumcision, the heavy stigma of being "uncut" is fading. Ivorian Banassiri Sylla, 34, recalls the day 26 years ago when she was to be circumcised. "I remember the blade. How it shone! There was a woman kneeling over me with the knife. I bit her; it was all I could do. Then three women came to hold me down. One of them sat on my chest. I bit her with all my might." The women finally let Sylla go, but her uncut status was a mark of shame for her family. "Never...