Word: airporter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suburban Maryland where he and his father got reacquainted (above) and waited for the courts to determine their fate. Finally, on June 28, the Supreme Court declined to consider the case, thus leaving in effect a decision respecting the father's wishes. The Gonzalez family headed for the airport. Their plane touched down outside Havana late in the day. Cubans in the U.S. and in the boy's homeland were chanting, for very different reasons, "Elian...
...last night, the Federal Aviation Administration listed no delays on flights from Logan to Atlanta. But students traveling to places like Chicago's O'Hare Airport and New York's LaGuardia Airport were experiencing delays, in some cases upwards of 5 hours...
...admitted to having drunk an entire bottle of vodka and had a breath-alcohol content of 0.26%, more than three times the legal limit. A more serious run-in came in October, when Tyler summoned police to the house claiming Antley had been talking about going to the airport to pick up his wife Natalie, saying "I'm going to do away with...
...setting: any airport, U.S.A. The victims: you and your laptop. Action! You put your computer on the X-ray conveyor belt and get in line for the metal detector. The guy in front of you gets stopped and has to empty his pockets. Turns out he's a walking scrap heap, and it takes him five minutes to get through. Meanwhile, your defenseless laptop is waiting helplessly on the other side. By the time you're finally through, it's gone--swiped by Scrap Heap's accomplice on the other side...
...when you're in an airport, several companies make fancy motion-sensor alarms that beep distressingly if someone tries to walk off with your machine (for example, while you're in a phone booth). The winner here is the Defcon 3 ($129), a laptop case from Targus that has a motion alarm built in. As a Targus representative puts it, the Defcon 3 is "a sexy unit"; no less studly a geek than Harry Connick Jr. carries...