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...week-old footage. Since David Richards' company, International Sportsworld Communicators (ISC), bought the TV and commercial rights to the WRC two years ago, bringing the sport to the public has been transformed. Today, television companies using satellite communications produce same-day programs editing together helicopter and trackside shots with on-board video footage that are broadcast to 186 countries. But ISC's ambition goes further than that. By next summer it expects to be able to produce live images direct from cars negotiating the harshest and most spectacularly beautiful courses around the world. It was on a visit...
...passengers that have already checked-in should be separated from those that have not. To make it more difficult to sneak weapons onto planes, every carry-on should be opened for inspection—including search with a bomb-sniffing wand. And, as a final safeguard against unauthorized passengers on-board, identification presented at check-in should be scanned into a computer database so that, upon boarding, each passenger can be photographed again for comparison...
...September 11, being small suddenly became a huge advantage in the airline business. While the major carriers focused largely on a $15 billion financial bailout and convincing Congress to take over the costs of airport security, small airlines went to work on on-board safety. Given their tiny fleets, enthusiastic employees and more nimble management, micro-carriers like JetBlue Airways and Frontier Airlines were able to have entirely redesigned, and reinforced cockpit door designs within two weeks. Officials from both airlines tell TIME that they are also making plans to install hidden cameras to monitor the passenger cabin from...
...Instead, airlines are asking the government to take over areas of concerns like airport security and insisting on rapidly increasing the Federal Aviation Administration's program of armed, on-board air marshals. This is not only not enough, say skeptics, it is also misguided energy...
...February 9, the Greeneville, demonstrating its maneuvers for an on-board civilian audience, struck the Japanese fisheries training boat Ehime Maru, killing nine passengers. The disaster strained U.S. relations with Japan and raised serious questions about the U.S. Navy's practice of taking civilians onto active military vessels...