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...potential problem is that individuals may not have access to the facts necessary to make an informed choice, but this could be easily solved by having the TSA, or another agency, rate airlines’ security policies. Thus, an individual would be free to choose an airline that rates, say, a D in security—just as they are free to choose a car that gets only one star in crash tests—if they prefer the convenience or price despite the risks...
...spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said “Harvard, MIT, and the other colleges are prepared but the problem is we want to make sure, and that was what the meeting was about...
...discussion was not simply about the difficulty of life in Balata; a discussion such as this would be irrefutable by anyone outside of the refugee camp. The problem is that the stories the children read were filled with political statements—unverifiable, at the very least, and logically untrue at other points...
...shootings, all mass killers also tend to disengage from the people around them. More and more of their emotional energy becomes consumed with planning their assault and, tellingly, with what often appears to be a newfound fascination with firearms and other weapons. "The quiet is the problem," says Welner. "The anger and rage just get bigger and bigger and seep into a fantasy life, and the person becomes increasingly alienated and isolated and contemptuous...
...Secretary Bodman, who will testify Friday April 20 before a congressional oversight subcommittee on security issues, has already taken a number of steps of his own to deal with the problem. He not only commissioned the task force report and reviewed the results of a DOE inspector general investigation, but in January fired the department's top official in charge of nuclear security in response to the latest Los Alamos and earlier incidents. As Bodman put it: "Unauthorized removal of the classified material from the Lab marks a significant breach of security protocol and of the public trust. Unfortunately...