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...shedding its qualms. More than half those interviewed in the TIME/CNN poll said it would be acceptable to profile by age, race and gender to help identify suspicious passengers. And thanks to a new software program dubbed the Threat Image Protection System that will soon appear on X-ray machines across the nation, the FAA will periodically be able to paint virtual images of guns or explosives onto the monitor to test and better prepare screeners for the real thing...
...After one briefcase-sniffing dog, one X-ray machine, and a lot of ushering through corridors by the NYSE?s swamped but immaculately mannered press-handlers, we reached our quarantine in the exchange?s ad hoc press pen. A vaulted-ceilinged, red-carpeted, den-of-J.P. Morgan room with a long mahogany table and oil portraits of NYSE chairmen past on rococo-detailed walls. No view of the exchange floor. No windows...
...about 10:00 a.m., the line to check baggage is about a 100 yards long. Each passenger’s bag is subject to an x-ray in a newly-purchased $50,000 machine before it can be checked...
...would hazard a guess that this was not a failure of physical security. So eliminating curb-side check-ins, better training for x-ray machine guards, bomb-sniffing dogs, and other proposed remedies are unlikely to prevent this sort of crime,” said Andrew Moravcsik, a government professor at the Center for European Studies...
DIED. E.T. HALL, 77, archaeologist and leading archaeometrist who famously uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; in Oxford, England. Using X-ray fluorescence, Hall showed that the Piltdown Man's skeleton--once thought to be evolution's "missing link"--had been stained to look fossilized and that the teeth of an orangutan had been filed to appear more human...