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...cultures. I hope it piques his interest of wanting to go to places like that on his own, wanting to travel on his own. That?s what I hope for this film for anybody who sees it. We live in a country where 1 in 4 people has a passport. I think that it would be great if in some way people suddenly said "I want to go out and see what?s happening for myself. I want to make up my own mind and not just be sold the bill of goods that I see on TV or read...
Organized by the Harvard Square Business Association, the Bookish Ball featured a “Passport to Wisdom” stroll, in which visitors could receive “Stamps of Wisdom” from local book stores, while also enjoying discounts and refreshments...
...bags an hour. And yet seven flights left on Thursday without luggage. By the early evening the airline had suspended check-in luggage because the terminal's conveyor belt was clogged, and arriving passengers waited up to four hours to reclaim their luggage. Angry scenes reportedly erupted in passport control and baggage claim areas as disgruntled passengers pushed and shoved...
Washington Memo Several State Department workers and contractors stirred national controversy by snooping through the confidential passport records of Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama. But beyond those high-profile intrusions is a much larger government push to make everyone's passport data more readily accessible to a host of federal agencies. The same database that the prying workers peered into is being opened up to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and other federal bureaucracies. The stated aim: To tap into the records "for counterterrorism and other purposes such as border security...
...pushing State to integrate the passport database with a DHS program called E-Verify. The Web-based program is now mandatory for companies in several states and voluntary everywhere else. It helps some 52,000 employers make sure that workers are in the country legally (even though it has a 10% error rate for foreign-born U.S. citizens). Linking E-Verify to the passport records--especially passport photos--"will help reduce data mismatches," DHS spokesman Russ Knocke says, and help ensure that employees are who they say they...