Word: transportable
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...schools, though, have tightened their security as thoroughly as Permian High. It has formed an alliance with Sandia Labs, based in Albuquerque, N.M., which has three decades of experience in locking down top-secret facilities that manufacture, transport and store nuclear weapons. Sandia started advising schools on security in 1991 after Congress ordered the labs to share the wealth of its technologies. Yet protecting a nuclear facility, says Sandia analyst Mary Green, is in some ways easier than securing a school. "Nuclear weapons usually stay where you put them," she says. "They don't have a lot of civil rights...
...Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins was one of the four great architects of the U.S. civil rights movement; in Fredericksburg, Va. Farmer's Congress of Racial Equality provided the nonviolent vanguard for the perilous sit-ins and Freedom Rides to integrate the public places and transport of the South in the 1950s and '60s. Asked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to postpone some of their actions so that people could "cool off," Farmer replied, "We have been cooling off for 350 years...
...Star (United, Lufthansa, SAS, Air Canada, Thai, Varig, Ansett Australia and Air New Zealand), account for more than 60% of world airline traffic today. "Alliances give airlines the advantage of retaining their own identity while getting a global marketing reach," says Tim Goodyear of the International Air Transport Association, based in Geneva. Star is run by a management board and boasts integrated check-ins and sales forces. Other alliances allow partners to sell seats on one another's flights...
Strange as it sounds, the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has made the first moves toward an anti-smoking ban of Californian proportions. The ban would cover all workplaces, stadiums, schools, universities, theaters, hospitals, even public transport, nearly every place where Russians light...
...miles Total length of traffic jams on Paris streets after a separate strike by transport workers...