Word: metallism
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...decided that the bars weren't up to the job. "[That bar] is simply a feel-good measure," says one pilot from a major carrier. Frontier's engineers were unable to find any acceptable hardened cockpit doors quickly and eventually built their own from scratch. They will have shallow metal grates that cover the entire door, and deadbolts...
...this added security will not be cheap. The State Police has already invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime since the attacks. Companies around the Hub have added security guards and metal detectors. Here, the University has hired extra security guards...
...seven TVs. Patriotism is normal, not sentimental or defiant or retro. At an Iowa orthodontist's office, kids are choosing red-white-and-blue braces. "It's because of all the things that are happening," explains Katie Slocum, 12, flashing a sweet, self-conscious smile of patriotic metal...
...back, it doesn't help to have to pass armed guards with grenades strapped to their chests at Boston's Logan airport, or to hear that there are generals authorized to shoot a passenger jet out of the sky should they conclude that it poses a threat. The metal detectors are so sensitive that an underwire bra will trip them. So will a candy wrapper. Yet a federal marshal was able to slip through with a buck knife in his pocket. Thus many passengers, returning to the skies last week, resorted to their own incantations: It's never been safer...
...glazed by the heat from Pakistan's 1998 nuclear test on its side of the border. There are only a scattering of thorny shrubs on the landscape. A few Pakistani frontier guards use stubby whips to hold back a tide of gaudily painted trucks, donkey carts loaded with gnarled metal scraps (about all that remains of value in Afghanistan) and a multitude of pushing, elbowing and complaining Afghans. Inside the Pakistani border post, an official sits in the corner of his office shouting into an ancient telephone. His desk is as far as possible from the windows, shattered by angry...