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...reason Logan decided to reinvent its security is not just that it had to live down its role as a jumping-off point for the 9/11 hijackers. It was also the place where the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, landed on Dec. 22. Aviation director Thomas Kinton, a 27-year veteran at Logan, remembers the phone call he got alerting him to the explosives that were found in Reid's shoes: "We knew from that moment on that we weren't waiting for anyone to make Logan secure." Within hours, Kinton and Major Robbins ordered the screeners--who were still airline...
...screen computers with no Internet access. Like scriveners from another century, agents wrote their reports out in longhand and often in triplicate. In fact, until a few months ago, many agents were still communicating with one another--and with outsiders--via fax. Some agents kept their best information in shoe boxes under their desks because they didn't trust the computer security system. That's hardly surprising after it turned out that one of their own--FBI security and computer whiz Robert Hanssen--had been working for the Soviets and the Russians for more than a decade. In the years...
This year, he notes, the academic shoe is “on the other foot...
...THESE SHOES WERE MADE FOR ... WALKING? This extensive collection of shoes from around the world concentrate on the rise from sensiblity to the height of fashion. 60 pairs of shoes, sandals and boots are exhibited from different cultures and different times. The ethnographic collection from the Peabody Library should appeal to shoe and fashion aficianados alike. Through Feb. 2004. Tozzer Library, 21 Divinity Ave. Free with Harvard...
...thought sports endorsements were getting out of hand in May when Nike recently signed Lebron James, 18, to a $90 million shoe deal before he played his first NBA game, brace yourself. A few days later, the company gave a $1 million contract to soccer prodigy Freddy Adu, 14. And rival shoemaker Reebok has signed its own precocious pitchman, Mark Walker, who is all of 3 years old. Reebok features Walker on its website, reebok.com where in a video clip he nails 18 straight shots into a basket set up in his family's garage. Jim Thompson, president...