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...gels have been banned from hand luggage on flights in the U.S. and elsewhere. And passengers flying between the U.K. and the U.S. were for several days all searched by hand and barred from bringing anything on board with them other than a select few items in a clear plastic bag. The British Home Secretary, John Reid, urged other European countries at a meeting in London Wednesday to work together to coordinate tighter security. "It's very important that the measures that are taken in one country are reflected in other countries because we want equal security...
...people have been trying for almost 20 years to blow up planes with liquid explosives packed in carry-on baggage. Terrorists, like movie studios and toddlers, don't like to try new things. In 1987 two North Korean agents posing as father and daughter put a radio packed with plastic explosives and a whisky bottle full of liquid explosives in a bag in the overhead bin of a South Korean airliner. Then they got off on a layover. The subsequent explosion sent the plane spinning into the jungle near the Thailand-Burma border, killing all 115 people onboard...
Liquid explosives are particularly diabolical. Like plastic explosives, a small amount of them can release a massive amount of force. And they can be easily disguised to look harmless. In 2002 the FBI issued a warning that al-Qaeda members had discussed sneaking onto planes liquid explosives disguised as coffee. The bombers who struck London's transit system in July 2005 used a variant of a peroxide-based explosive, triacetone triperoxide (TATP). "We didn't wake up and discover liquid explosives this week," says DHS Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson...
...officialdom expects. They may not be perfect at it, but they do it every day. Nancy Bort of Arlington, Va., landed at Washington's Dulles International Airport on the first flight from London Heathrow after the arrests. The plane arrived nearly two hours late, and the passengers emerged clutching plastic bags for their passports and not much else. But Bort was unfazed. "I still think I have a greater chance of being hurt in a car accident than getting killed by a terrorist," she said...
...into epicurean revelry. Don’t get me wrong: I love Cambridge. But let’s face it, the closest an average Harvard student gets to enjoying wine is guzzling a seven-dollar magnum of Yellowtail, which might as well be packaged in a box with a plastic pour spout...