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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will start randomly inspecting bags on the public transit system in an attempt to deter terrorist acts, Governor W. Mitt Romney announced yesterday. MBTA officials will use equipment that can detect any trace of explosive material on a bag, such as on seams, zippers, or handles. The tests can be conducted in under a minute, according to a statement from the Governor’s office. In most cases, officials will not actually open passengers’ bags, though they may request to do so, the statement said. In addition, “impact teams?...
...carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the research firm will form 10 focus groups, consisting of teachers, parents with children in the system, parents who have withdrawn their children from the system, and parents with children enrolled in private schools. The other phase will be a random telephone survey of 400 Cantabrigians. Declining enrollment has plagued the city’s schools over the past decade. In the 1995-1996 school year, the school system boasted a total enrollment of 7,988. By the 2002-2003 school year—the last year for which there...
...stock,” said a fiscally conservative male friend—he and all my other friends asked if they could be anonymous so that they could speak more freely. “You’re not just going to throw your money at a random penny stock that’s not going to perform better in the future...
...been it for him. He would have had to find another job and health care, and the difference between that and now is the union,” Martin said. “And that’s what the workers in Burlington are hoping for now. No more random firing. No more harassment on the job. These are all kinds of things that workers can’t do individually...
...with only one notable success (in 1987, North Korean agents blew up a South Korean airplane). But as Time magazine notes, of the roughly 2,000 bombs planted on U.S. territory every year, almost none are liquid explosives. Six months ago the TSA itself stated, “While random items commonly found under a kitchen sink could conceivably be concocted into an IED [improvised explosive device], there are so many things that could go wrong with this hypothetical scenario that we find it highly implausible...