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Terrorist hysteria has common sense by the throat. No one wants a sequel to Sept. 11, and it’s only with best intentions that we’ve deployed M-16 toting National Guardsmen to airports nationwide. But Logan Airport wasn’t the target of terrorism on Sept. 11, it was only the vehicle. M-16s would not have changed a thing. With the same well-intended logic that has soldiers in our airports, the troops could be in stadiums, malls, busy streets and anywhere else that might be associated with a terrorist threat. Then America...
...Connecticut woman died of anthrax in late November; despite increased security since Sept. 11, airports have allowed people with sharp implements and potential weapons board airplanes. At O’Hare Airport in Chicago, passengers managed to bring cleavers, stun guns and tear gas past security checkpoints; at Logan, a checkpoint was left unmanned while an employee took a break...
...women who dreamed up these technological wonders probably never imagined that civilization would someday rely so heavily on their ingenuity, but heroes rarely become so by their design. There is no guarantee, of course, that their creations will be used wisely or well. At Boston's Logan Airport, where the planes that hit the World Trade Center began their flight, the security codes to Jetway doors were often scribbled in pencil next to the locks. Technology can always be undone by human error...
...those Crimson from California, Europe and beyond? Even with the three-hour rollback going west, it’s hardly possible to make it door in door in under eight hours—unless you live right next to an airport and, by some anomaly, your flight leaves Logan on time...
Mawuena M.M. Agbonyitor ’04 said she is concerned about flying to Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., which is close to several major monuments. But “as long as they’ve beefed up security at Logan,” she said, “[flying is] alright...