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...quarter of all fake weapons carried by undercover TSA agents were not detected.) The fact that most checked luggage is still not being screened for explosives remains a glaring lapse, and there's a raging dispute over the machines the TSA has selected for the job. Plus, as the LAX shooting at an El Al check-in counter revealed, there are plenty of other places in an airport that are vulnerable to people intent on causing havoc...
...quarter of all fake weapons carried by undercover TSA agents were not detected.) The fact that most checked luggage is still not being screened for explosives remains a glaring lapse, and there's a raging dispute over the machines the TSA has selected for the job. Plus, as the LAX shooting at an El Al check-in counter revealed, there are plenty of other places in an airport that are vulnerable to people intent on causing havoc...
...BORDER In December 1999, Algerian Ahmed Ressam was stopped trying to cross from Canada to the U.S. in an explosives-packed car, which he intended to use in a plot to blow up LAX...
...survivor of prostate cancer, I owe my life to those on the front line of medical research, the courageous participants in clinical trials. But to those researchers who use shoddy procedures and put their patients at risk, as well as those institutions whose lax oversight undermines public trust, shame! Without well-designed research efforts, fully informed patients and strict oversight, we will not be able to find and develop the medicines and therapies we desperately need to treat debilitating diseases. As a board member of Friends of Cancer Research and a cancer survivor, I am all for clinical trials...
Another downside is that the actors’ blocking, which is generally effective, feels constricted when confined to one corner of the stage (which happens more often than one would like). Scenes feel static, crowded or both, as in one early scene when the lax Kaffee sits on the edge of a table during a meeting. The choice is appropriate for his character, but it blocks the poor actor behind him from the audience’s view...