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What's changed: Rules adopted on July 1 require that ports have a specific security plan, which may include crew ID checks, X-ray machines and expanded baggage screening. The coast guard boards and searches all foreign vessels that enter u.s. waters...
...What is fundamental is that the CfA is able to contribute to the x-ray center and the telescope,” he said...
...level in marginal seats, where most election campaigns are settled, incumbency is a huge advantage. The local M.P. becomes well known in the community. He or she will be ever-present in community media and associated with popular causes or the funds to pay for a bridge, say, or X-ray machines for the local hospital. A electorate office (with staff) is a citadel for an incumbent; the requirement that the benefits be used only for electorate or parliamentary purposes is hardly onerous in the hands of clever operators. Every federal member receives an annual $A125,000 printing and stationery...
...airlines can simulate an environment of airtight security—then it’s business as usual. If the illusion is really good, it might even deter terrorists from trying any new plots. But we shouldn’t be fooled by the false impression of safety: extra X-ray machines don’t by themselves add up to extra security. In the meantime, I suppose we also shouldn’t be lured into a false sense of danger. After all, it’s still statistically safer to fly than to drive...
...about the Middleland, which we may get to know through the comforting familiarity of islands like Cincinnati or Atlanta. The Middleland is a vast sea populated by atolls, stopover oases in the middle of an untraversable desert. Its airports simply reproduce the array of gates, fast-food establishments and X-ray machines that we’d find in any airport. Every airport looks the same, and no matter where we have to stopover, we feel comfortable because it looks just like the place we’d like...