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Last month, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation requiring all workers who screen baggage at airports to be federal personnel. The Senate plan acknowledges the importance of airport security as a law enforcement role, unfortunately neglected before Sept. 11. Last Thursday, however, the House narrowly defeated the Senate’s bill and instead passed a Republican version of the legislation that removes the personnel requirement. We urge the conference committee to move quickly on the bill and to restore the Senate language as much as possible before sending the bill to the president’s desk...
...large projection screen covering a wall of the ballroom began posting polling results shortly after precincts closed at 8:30 p.m., confirming the expected Menino landslide of about a three-to-one margin...
...hand-searched before being loaded onto a plane. Those bags, which are chosen randomly or flagged by a computer system, are subjected to intense scrutiny - much like the rigors endured by each and every bag tagged for Israel?s El Al airline. But most experts agree we should screen every bag that makes it onto an airplane, a task that would require at least 2,000 highly sensitive giant CT-scan machines. Each of these truck-sized x-ray chambers costs a whopping $1.2 million to install, and while the government has pledged $2 billion for the new machines, there...
...mark on the power play. The goal was set up by junior forward Kalen Ingram who won the faceoff and passed off to Corriero on the right wing. Junior forward Tracy Catlin kept a Big Red player in front to set up a screen, and Corriero shot the puck short-side past Cornell goaltender Sanya Sandahl...
...financial team is feeding bank transfer intelligence to Operation Green Quest, a Treasury Department program to block al Qaeda?s cash flow. Agency scientists are also fielding anti-terror gizmos like OASIS, a computer that scans thousands of foreign TV broadcasts and quickly plucks out terror suspects on the screen from their voiceprints...