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Since 9/11, U.S. transit officials have made some changes. Amtrak and big-city subways have added police and dog units and removed some large, bomb-ready fixtures--like trash cans and vending machines. At Amtrak, names given by passengers are checked against various government watch lists (a spokesman declined to say which ones). Last week Amtrak upped security patrols and electronic surveillance of tracks, bridges and tunnels...
...maps are just the beginning. The entire institution of travel is undergoing a rapid phase of abstraction. We are a generation that has never known what it means to reach a far off destination by passing through every point in between. Mass, rapid, modern transit means a loss of contact with the “in-between-ness” of places. Air travel is great because it lets us connect two distant places by just folding a map. And you’ll notice that if you fold correctly, what disappears into the crease is all the area...
...Spain appears to have arrested those responsible, security analysts on both sides of the Atlantic are already focused on one question: Where next? Italy, France, Australia, Japan and others are tightening up security procedures; the New York City Police Department, mindful of the vulnerability of the city's mass transit system, has sent experts to Madrid to study the mechanics of the train bombings that killed more than 200 commuters there. "Attack on London is Inevitable," screamed one British headline on Wednesday, quoting British security officials...
...INDIA, PAKISTAN Nationals from both countries landing at London's Heathrow Airport en route to continental Europe must usually carry a special Direct Airside Transit Visa even if they are merely changing planes, according to regulations drawn up last October. The British Home Office provides a handy "do I need a visa?" calculator at www.ukvisas.gov.uk...
...problem of Duck Hunt. Who’s to say that Nintendo-addled children of the early 1980s, so frequent on the College campus, wouldn’t grab gray-plastic rifles and start shooting at the pixellated fowl they imagine they see flying by their newest form of transit...