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...would be different if the indignities of airport security served a self-evident lifesaving purpose. But the first thing the inquisitive traveler learns is that the X-ray machines that constitute the principal barrier between parking lot and planes can detect only teaspoons and hairpins and are utterly indifferent to the plastic devices favored by modern mass murderers. Why not buy machines that can actually detect bombs? Too expensive, the airlines say, as if airplanes were cheap. And of course nothing reveals the purely ceremonial nature of airport security like the long-standing rule against telling bomb-related jokes...
...Their primary concern was my immediate well-being," Sauer explains. "The X-ray they did when I first went in didn't show a break, so at that point there was no need for an MRI. It just wasn't a major ligament...
...letter spelled doom. They were about to be spun off to a new company being formed around 3M's money-losing data storage and medical imaging divisions. The outcasts would have to teach those old dogs some profitable new tricks. The outfit's products, ranging from floppy disks to X-ray film and magnetic resonance devices, were well regarded but caught in viciously competitive markets. When Gallup polled the spun-off workers about their fate, typical responses included "shocked," "betrayed" and "apprehensive...
...airline supervisor, I would send bogus bombs twice a day through airport-security X-ray machines, and several of them went frighteningly undetected. There are an infinite number of ways to put explosives on airplanes, but we trust that no one would be insane enough to try it. If the White House really wants to do something about airline safety, it needs to take off its blinders. Ask airline employees, airport staff or even travelers for the facts. Naivete is going to be the demise of this country. TRACY SCHADEBERG Laguna Hills, California...
Consider the most promising new development, and the only new scanning device certified by the FAA: the InVision CTX 5000, which combines computed tomography (CT scanning) and high-quality X-ray imaging to produce cross-sectional images of a bag's contents. The CTX 5000 is the only device available that is equipped to detect all varieties of bombs: military explosives that might be concealed behind a circuit board, like the bomb that brought Pan Am Flight 103 down; plastic-sheet explosives contained in suitcase linings; and commercial explosives that might be composed of dynamite and powders...