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Remembering Pearl Harbor: Arizona seeks gun from battleship Arizona
Nation NowPearl Harbor anniversary: On the eve of the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Arizona's secretary of state is leading an effort to bring gun barrels from the USS Arizona and Missouri to the state for a World War II memorial.... -
Goldberg: Rage against the TSA machine
The backdrop for my favorite science-fiction novels, Frank Herbert's "Dune" series, is something called the Butlerian Jihad. Some 10,000 years before the main events of the story take place, humanity rebelled against "thinking machines" —...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Diseases and Illnesses, Employees
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Airports: Are we any safer?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn May 1, 1961, Inez Harlow flew into the history books. The 23-year-old flight attendant had been suspicious of the slim passenger from the moment he boarded the National Airlines Convair CV-440 in Miami. "He had dark glasses on, his collar up,...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Explosions, Disasters and Accidents, Crisis, Murder
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TSA officers to try interview technique
If you are flying out of Boston Logan International Airport, be prepared to have a brief conversation with a Transportation Security Administration officer who will be interested in more than what you have to say.
Under a 60-day pilot program that starts...Tags: Ryanair Holdings Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Air Transportation, Virgin Group, Ltd., Layoffs and Downsizing
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Behind the scenes at LAX
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's a Thursday evening, and the landing lights of incoming LAX flights glow like torches from Westchester to the San Gabriels. Torch one, 200 lives suspended in air. Torch two, 500. Torch three, 350 awaiting their return to loved ones, bosses, business...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Explosions, Employees, Air and Space Accidents, Consumers
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25 things about LAX
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTravelers usually try to get in and get out of Los Angeles International Airport as quickly as possible. Who wouldn't? But in their haste, here are 25 things they might have missed: Full-body scanners were deployed late last year after it was revealed...Tags: Science and Technology, UFO Sightings, Employees, Human Interest, Los Angeles International Airport
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Airlines trade group predicts global profits to shrink in 2012
Money & CompanyA trade group for the world's airlines fears surging fuel prices and the ongoing Eurozone crisis could cut into the industry's rebounding profit margin. In a report filed Wednesday, the International Air Transport Assn. maintained its previous... -
TSA to expand faster security check program
Money & CompanyIn the two months since the federal government launched a program letting fliers who provide background information to zip through special airport security checkpoints, more than 120,000 passengers have taken advantage of the program. Fliers who... -
N.Y. lawmakers ask TSA for passenger advocates at airports
Nation NowIn the wake of claims by an elderly woman that she was stripped searched at Kennedy Airport, two New York lawmakers want to establish passenger advocates at all airports.... -
Fraudulent airline ticket orders on the rise, reporting group says
Money & CompanyThe number of fraudulent airline tickets ordered in the U.S. has surged recently, with more than $1 million in unauthorized tickets issued in the last few months. The Airline Reporting Corp., the Arlington, Va.-based company that settles transactions... -
Vegas tour helicopter climbed, turned before crashing, NTSB says
Nation NowVegas helicopter crash: The National Transportation Safety Board released its initial report on the recent helicopter crash outside Las Vegas that killed five people.... -
STRIP Act targets TSA uniform: End 'impersonation' of 'real cops'
Nation NowA lawmaker has introduced the STRIP Act, or Stop TSA's Reach In Policy Act to prevent airport screeners from wearing law enforcement uniforms and police-like metal badge and calling themselves officers unless they receive law enforcement training....
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