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Travel by bus has long been the least glamorous transit option. But with no advance check-in times, no baggage check and reasonable walk-up fares, bus travel could be just the ticket for short-hop trips. Hip new lines, budget carriers and luxury services offer riders looking to avoid airport hassles an alternative at several price points...
...also act tyrannically, so they legislated against themselves. The British government is considering profiling Muslim air passengers in the wake of recent security concerns. Is that justifiable? Have we so quickly forgotten the lessons of the Birmingham Six, imprisoned for 16 years because they were in transit to Ireland carrying mass cards? Is possession of the Koran now to form the same wrong basis for suspicion? 25 years of conflict in Northern Ireland was fueled, not solved, by targeted stigmatization. I.R.A. suspects the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six spent years in jail before you secured their release. Do their cases...
...branch of M?decins Sans Fronti?res, the only NGO operating on Lampedusa, says that push-and-pull pressures mean that people will continue to risk their lives for a shot at a living wage. "The migratory flow depends on the conditions of the country of origin, the countries of transit, and the country of destination," he says. "There is extreme poverty at one end, and a demand for manpower at the other." Virtually all agree that the two keys to solving the problem are for Europe to forge a single, comprehensive continent-wide immigration policy, and for Africa to achieve rapid...
...explosives, a small amount of them can release a massive amount of force. And they can be easily disguised to look harmless. In 2002 the FBI issued a warning that al-Qaeda members had discussed sneaking onto planes liquid explosives disguised as coffee. The bombers who struck London's transit system in July 2005 used a variant of a peroxide-based explosive, triacetone triperoxide (TATP). "We didn't wake up and discover liquid explosives this week," says DHS Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson...
...that they were generally anchored to labs. But given the portability of this 3.5-pound tool, the TSA could quickly deploy it in airports nationwide. The gadget is simple enough to use that airport screeners and security officials with just several hours of training could monitor suspicious materials in transit. In its latest iteration, the FirstDefender can identify 2,500 liquid and solid substances. The U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center issued a recent assessment of the new handheld as an effective portable tool in detecting dangerous substances, including sarin and mustard gas: "The FirstDefender can be suitable...