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...compatriots, rejoice! Breathe the fresh air of freedom: The government is now letting us take liquids on-board airplanes...
Meanwhile, under the TSA’s new half-hearted limitation, terrorists can be sure that they will probably succeed at sneaking liquids on-board anyway. Screeners conduct full bag searches on less than one out of four passengers, and they are unlikely to distinguish a three-ounce from a five-ounce bottle. Moreover, the time that they spend ferreting out that dastardly four-ounce container (a full ounce over the limit!) detracts from the time they can spend looking for real threats...
Fain touts the ship as a "city at sea," but that comes with some of the attendant problems. "The possibility of crime goes up, costs go up, and it gets more crowded," says Carolyn Spencer Brown, editor of Cruisecritic.com Royal Caribbean says on-board crime is rare, but hired a former top FBI official to run its security operations. Competitors warn that a ship this big can spoil a cruise destination. "Some ports just won't support 4,000 guests," says Bill Smith, vice president of Crystal Cruises, whose ships have no more than 1,000 passengers. "At that size...
...always a little weaker in getting faculty on-board because we find it easier to table and mass e-mail and recruit our fellow students, and because we can be a little shy about approaching faculty,” according to Hazlett. But he predicted that “faculty will become a powerful and moral voice for divestment right alongside the students...
...ship carrying food aid in September, a Maltese-registered cargo ship carrying 15 tons of iron ore, and, just last weekend, a cruise ship with some 300 American and British holidaymakers aboard. (Though the pirates fired semiautomatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, the ship's crew used an on-board "acoustic bang" to scare the pirates off, according to a spokeman for the liner.) Maritime authorities are worried not only that the number of attacks off Somalia has jumped from last year, when just two were reported, but that Somali pirates are becoming more aggressive and skillful...