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Hands Off My Laptop, iPod, Cellphone, Pager, Beeper, Flash Drive, Pocket Litter, First Born (OK, Not My First Born)

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, TSA-Friendly Laptop Bag, Progressive, Airport Security, Customs, Constitution, Drdigipol, Airports, Laptop, Privacy, Border, Fourth Amendment, Illegal Search and Seizure, IAmProgress.Org, Politics News
Alan Rosenblatt

Customs and Border Protection just released its new policies for searching and seizing laptops at the border.

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How to Cure Airport Blues: Fly Nice!

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 08.02.2008 | Living

Read More: Airplanes, Airports, Air Passenger Rights Law, Being Nice, Air Passenger, Airlines, Ticket, Luggage, The Giving Life, The Inner Life, Living News
Joel Schwartzberg

The next time you find yourself waiting at an airport terminal in a waiting-at-an-airport-terminal kind of mood, give being nice a try. It's way cheaper than coffee, and the favor often makes a return trip.

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Keep Your Hands Off My Laptop

Alan Rosenblatt | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Laptop, Progressive, Constitution, Customs, Border, Airports, Drdigipol, Privacy, Illegal Search and Seizure, TSA-Friendly Laptop Bag, Airport Security, Fourth Amendment, Politics News
Alan Rosenblatt

As it stands, Customs can grab anyone at the border, seize their laptop, and demand passwords and encryption keys as a pre-condition to entering the country. And who knows when you'll get your computer back?

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More Than 10,000 Laptops Go Missing At US Airports Each Week

Engadget | Donald Melanson | Posted 07.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Airports, Laptops, Airport Security, Laptop Airports, Business News

As we've seen, laptops have a tendency of getting stolen from even the most unsuspecting places, but a new study has now found one not entirely surpri...

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Greening Our Airports

Laurie David | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Summer Travel, Air Travel, Airports, Environmentalism, Travel, Green Living, Summer, Green News
Laurie David

Tens of millions of people will spend a portion of their summer vacation traveling through an airport. Airports are essentially like small cities, and greening them will make a big impact.

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Scanners That See Through Clothing Installed At US Airports

AFP | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: See-Through Scanners, Scanners, Airports, Travel, Airport Scanners See Through Clothing, Aviation Security Scanners, Airport Security Scanners, Business News

Security scanners which can see through passengers' clothing and reveal details of their body underneath are being installed in 10 US airports, the US...

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Air Travelers Hit With Higher Prices And Fewer Options

AP | DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Air Travel Woes, Air Travel Delays, Airline Delays, Airport Delays, Airlines, Air Travel, Air Travel Headaches, Airports, Business News

CHICAGO — First it was soaring ticket prices and vanishing bargain fares, then new baggage fees. Now air travelers are facing dwindling choices ...

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Why Airlines Might Abandon Your City

ABC News | RICK SEANEY | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Airports, Airlines Abandon City, Airlines, Airline Cutbacks, Business News

Nightmare Scenario #1: You've got your briefcase in hand, boarding pass in pocket, and your carry-on rolling behind you. You head to the airport with ...

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TSA Blog Lets Travelers Air Grievances

AP | DAN CATERINICCHIA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: TSA, TSA Blog, Air Travel, Travel Complaints, Evolution of Security, Airports, Business News

WASHINGTON — Frustrated by long airport-security lines? Certain those screeners aren't paying attention? Wondering why your grandma always gets ...

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Employees Hate Airlines As Much As Passengers

New York Times | Jeff Bailey | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Airport, Holiday Travel, Airports, Holiday Travel Mess, Airlines, Airline Employees, Airline, Airport Delays, Holiday Travel Headaches, Business News

And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too -- with pay cuts, increased workloads and management's miserly ways, which...

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Study Finds No Proof That Airport Security Makes Flying Safer

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Airports, Airport Security, Harvard School of Public Health, X-Ray Screening, Home News

Airport security lines can annoy passengers, but there is no evidence that they make flying any safer, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. A team ...

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Snow And Ice Plaster Midwest, Hundreds Of Flights Canceled

AP | NAFEESA SYEED | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Airports, Travel, Weather Kills Three People, Weather Kills 3 People, Highways, Snow Weather Midwest, Home News

Forecasters predicted freezing rain and snow flurries in Iowa on Sunday, a day after snow and ice plastered the Midwest, disrupting airport and highwa...

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Bush Promises Not To Shoot Down Your Plane This Holiday Season

236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Security, National Security, Holiday Season, Heightened Security, Preparing for the Holiday Season, Holidays, George W. Bush, Airports, Airplane, Home News

The holiday season is not all about fun, family and suicidal thoughts. It's also about traveling. In order to relieve the annual stress of overcrowded...

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Fatal Airline Crashes In US Down 65 Percent In Past Decade

New York Times | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Plane Crashes, Airlines, Airplanes, Air Disasters, Airline Industry, Airports, Business News

After two infamous crashes in 1996 that together killed 375 people, a White House commission told the airline industry and its regulators to reduce th...

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Stores And Spas Sprout At Airports As Flight Delays Mount

Los Angeles Times | Peter Pae | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Flight Delays, Airport Concessions, Airline Industry, Airport Delays, Airports, Business News

Ricky Yngsdal flies at least twice a month, but lately he has been spending more time in airports than on planes because of the soaring pace of flight...

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Beijing Debuts World's Largest Airport Terminal

Times of London | Jane Macartney | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Beijing AIrport, Air Travel, Norman Foster, Architecture, Airports, Home News

China offered a first glimpse into the world's biggest airport terminal yesterday and admitted that the £1.8 billion colossus will soon be too small ...

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