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...office space at the airport to house what will eventually be a force of nearly 2,000 people in three rotating shifts. Baumgartner wants to charge the going rate of $72 per sq. ft.; the TSA complains that's too steep for a federal agency already stretched thin. "You can't just walk 2,000 people into an airport and put them somewhere," says Baumgartner. "You have to do a lot of work beforehand...

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

...validity and justification for him being committed." But there is no record that the court knew the whole story before ordering Yoder to the hospital. He was held there three months, until the feds sought to prosecute him for threatening President Ronald Reagan. That prosecution collapsed on thin evidence, and he was finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call Him Crazy | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...office space at the airport to house what will eventually be a force of nearly 2,000 people in three rotating shifts. Baumgartner wants to charge the going rate of $72 per sq. ft.; the TSA complains that's too steep for a federal agency already stretched thin. "You can't just walk 2,000 people into an airport and put them somewhere," says Baumgartner. "You have to do a lot of work beforehand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation's Best Run Airport — and Why It's Still Not Good Enough | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

ALTERNATIVE REALITY To combat the greased-chicken effect of smearing on so much sunscreen, researchers suggest covering the body with a thin layer of sunblock first, then again half an hour later. Be warned: the old rules about reapplying after swimming still hold. Plus, tans are bad for your skin, period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, It Can Be Too Thin | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...laced the stuff of ordinary life with a dose of terror, for the deepest fears derive not from the wildly grotesque, but from the slightly twisted familiar. Terror is a thing of the mind, not the eyes, and the line between mundane normality and unbridled horror can be as thin as that between dusk and night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japanese Water Torture | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

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