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...Federal prosecutors allege that on Dec. 11, 1994, Yousef tested his larger plan for attacking the U.S. carriers by boarding a Philippine Airlines flight on the first leg from the Philippines to Japan. He carried with him the components for a bomb, unassembled in his carry-on bag. The X-ray operators never detected the components. On board the plane, Yousef allegedly went to the lavatory and assembled the bomb, which was made up of gun cotton, a nitroglycerin solution, an explosive detonator and a timer all packed into a contact-lens bottle. He then went back to his seat...
...requires that all carry-on baggage for international flights be inspected, that all checked luggage be matched with a passenger, and that checked luggage be X-rayed. But a former top security official with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees Kennedy airport, says that to save time, baggage checked at curbside is often taken directly to the cargo area without going through an X-ray machine. U.S. domestic flights still do not require bags and passengers to travel together--even after the CIA issued a warning last summer that there were signs of increased terrorist...
...illusion of safety. The reality is that U.S. airports have no systematic way of screening for explosives that a terrorist might want to sneak aboard an aircraft. Metal detectors might miss plastics or liquids used to assemble a bomb, as might bored, poorly paid and poorly trained operators of X-ray machines. At some U.S. airports, including Kennedy, checked-in luggage for international flights is sniffed by specially trained dogs or scanned by electronic vapor-particle detectors that can locate explosives. But if the explosives are in airtight containers, they may be missed...
Harvard affiliates can also work with the Smithsonian on major research projects like the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF), a satellite that Kirshner calls "the X-ray equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope...
...Orozco"; David E. Benjamin '96 for "Report From Iron Mountain: A Look at Modern American History"; Manjul Bhargava '96 for "On P-orderings and polynomial functions on arbitrary subsets of Dedekind-type rings"; Joshua S. Bloom '96 for "Studies of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Standard Candles and Globular Cluster X-ray Binaries as Dynamical Probes"; and Cliff W. Chiang '96 for "'If answerable Style I Can Obtain...': An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost...