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...their chests at Boston's Logan airport, or to hear that there are generals authorized to shoot a passenger jet out of the sky should they conclude that it poses a threat. The metal detectors are so sensitive that an underwire bra will trip them. So will a candy wrapper. Yet a federal marshal was able to slip through with a buck knife in his pocket. Thus many passengers, returning to the skies last week, resorted to their own incantations: It's never been safer to fly. Lightning doesn't strike twice. If I stay home, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Comes Next? | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...their chests at Boston's Logan airport, or to hear that there are generals authorized to shoot a passenger jet out of the sky should they conclude that it poses a threat. The metal detectors are so sensitive that an underwire bra will trip them. So will a candy wrapper. Yet a federal marshal was able to slip through with a buck knife in his pocket. Thus many passengers, returning to the skies last week, resorted to their own incantations: It's never been safer to fly. Lightning doesn't strike twice. If I stay home, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Comes Next? | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...that had all the sexy material. The rest is just history - just homework. Maybe that was Starr's intent all along - to queer your post-presidential book deal by pre-emptively spilling the most salacious stuff (the blue dress and the cigar and all that) under the plain brown wrapper of an official special counsel's report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Book Publishers Should Have Said to Bill Clinton | 8/9/2001 | See Source »

...Deciding that time was of the essence, he asked her anyway--with a ring to boot. When Megan Henry saw the ring, a makeshift wedding band molded from a York Peppermint Patty wrapper, she laughed, "Are you serious...Is this a joke...

Author: By Dana M. Scardigli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Campus Life to Man and Wife | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

...which is shaped like a boomerang. The President seemed relaxed during the interview; it was obvious that he had been giving a lot of interviews lately and was in a kind of groove. He leaned over the desk while he answered questions, absent-mindedly fiddling with a cellophane candy wrapper as he spoke, and finally tearing it into little pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George W. Bush Interview: 'My Job Is to Set Priorities' | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

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