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...might directly affect Denver. Satisfied that it wasn't, he went on to assess whether it called for any fundamental rethinking of his airport's security. The short answer is no; even with 240 armed police officers assigned to the airport, along with scores of security people, preventing such random acts is all but impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airport Security: Welcome to America's Best-Run Airport* | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...Lockney officials are vindicated by last week's Supreme Court ruling that random drug testing of students involved in extracurricular activities is constitutional. Still, Lusk is reluctant to give testing another try for fear of rekindling local opposition. "It's opened the door," he says of the ruling. "We just don't know how wide or even if we want to walk through it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Learning | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...student per test, the price was manageable, and the district's administrators believed that random testing of even 10% of the student body each month was worth it. That is, until a parent, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union (A.C.L.U.), sued to have the testing stopped, claiming a violation of the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The district settled the suit and discontinued testing after just one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Learning | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...schools that are willing and able to pay the price, the court's ruling provides one more weapon in the war against drugs. Oklahoma school officials say that after everything from surveillance cameras to canine patrols failed to reduce drug use, random testing was a desperate last resort--and proved the most effective deterrent of all. "Without testing for drugs, we just weren't effectively eliminating the problem," says Linda Meoli, attorney for the Oklahoma school district. "We really needed another, better tool." --With reporting by Joe Pappalardo/New York

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Learning | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...sick," said Bill Clinton on catching sight of Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Cologne G-8 summit in 1999. Clinton was a shrewd judge of his counterpart's state. By the end of Clinton's presidency, writes Strobe Talbott in his excellent new book, The Russia Hand (Random House; 478 pages), the American had met Yeltsin almost as many times as Clinton's nine predecessors combined had met their Russian equals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moscow Without Tears | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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