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Passengers are chosen for screening by a “random mathematical permutation” generated the morning of the checks to guard against accusations of racial, gender, or religious discrimination, Venturelli said...
...search process is non-invasive and random. Bags are not opened—the handles and zippers are swabbed with a special test strip which is then fed through an explosives detection machine, according to Venturelli...
Travelers at the Harvard Square T station faced minor delays yesterday as Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority police performed random security testing of passengers’ bags...
This is the first time checks have occurred at the Harvard Square T station, though they have been occurring elsewhere at random throughout the T system, according to Lt. Salvatore Venturelli, the commander of the MBTA district that serves the Harvard station...
Handcuffs, lipstick, lingerie, a straitjacket, a martini glass, and a naked woman have conspicuously snuck onto the cover of a science book. Something is afoot.Looking at the fluorescent assortment of seemingly random images on the jacket of Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” one gets a sense of what to expect from this charming and provocative investigation into language.For its author, language is a reflection of our conception of the world—and, consequently, human nature.Fittingly, Pinker uses cultural references, sexy verbs, and toilet allusions to describe...