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Nov.11.2012
Last month I had the great pleasure of sharing my passport with border officers when I was traveling to Quebec and Ontario on a book tour. I love my passport, because right now it has visas for Syria and Lebanon. These days, there is little that causes more conversation with a uniformed official on...
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Feb.09.2012
About a week ago I was in Houston Hobby Airport and I was impressed at how much more comfortable they made the prison like searches before we boarded the airplane. Then I thought to myself “Self you have not had enough coffee, there is a brilliant idea about to occur and you desperately...
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Sep.12.2011
I flew back to Philadelphia yesterday from Boston's Logan Airport. The heightened security was obvious on the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. As much as I tried not to think about the events ten years ago as I boarded my airplane, it was like "the elephant in the room." The thoughts...
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Jun.28.2011
REGURGITATING WORDS
I’ve said the words to myself…but not out loud. I need to tell someone. A woman is keeping me up at night. I don’t know her. I’ve never met her – I haven’t even see a picture of her, but she haunts me day and night. Perhaps it’s because of the kind of inhumanity suffered;...
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Mar.15.2011
Right around the time a 9.0 tsunami struck Japan and left in its wake the worst nuclear reactor disaster since Chernobyl, the Transportation Security Administration made public the results of its internal review that shows what they call "record-keeping errors" and miscalculations by TSA...
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Dec.16.2010
Here's a solution to those intrusive full body scanners proposed by the TSA. Stop by your friendly airport Burger King and buy pancakes to hide your junk. Sorry folks, the french toast won't work--it's gotta be pancakes.
According to the Journal of Transportation Security,
"It is very...
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Nov.29.2010
when I was a young girl entering the workplace, my dad told me "be thou friendly, but not familiar." I recently remembered a jingle from one of the largest airlines. "Fly the Friendly Skies..." Perhaps now it should say "Fly the Familiar Skies...."
If TSA keeps...
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Nov.24.2010
According to a recent CNN poll, 80% of the Americans approve the use of airport full body X-ray scanners. Yet, back in April, a group of prominent scientists, physicians, and professors at the University of California San Francisco challenged their safety in a letter to Dr. John P. Holdren, the...
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Nov.18.2010
The day I moved into my dorm room, a man called just after my mother left me alone for the first time in my life. He threatened to come and rape me. He went into graphic detail of what he was going to do to me. I laughed at him and hung up, but I didn't leave my room until I saw women in the...
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Jan.16.2010
Just when you think we got enough to worry about, along comes a big old raging controversy over airports utilizing full body scanning machines that can see through fliers' clothing all the way down to our naughty bits. Let me tell you where I stand on this brouhaha: I don't care. Haha. In the whole...
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