Body Scanners Unveiled At Jfk Airport; Homeland Security Sect. Janet Napolitano Doesn't Volunteer
Airline passengers might want to consider a trip to the gym before heading to the airport, coach handbags after high-tech body scanners were unveiled at Kennedy Airport Friday.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano hailed them as an important breakthrough for airport security and the fight against terrorism.
Yet when it came to testing the devices - which produce chalky naked x-ray images of passengers - she turned the floor over to some brave volunteers.
"These machines represent an important way to stay ahead of the ever-evolving threat that faces the aviation industry,Ugg Boots Sale," Napolitano said.
About 300 of the high-tech machines already are operational at 62 airports across the country, coach purses and 450 will to be in place by the end of the year, officials said.
JFK will have a "substantial" number, but officials would not reveal the exact figure.
They will be installed at Newark and LaGuardia airports within weeks.
The machines work by projecting low-level x-ray beams at the passenger's body to produce an image.
Any hidden nonmetal objects that wouldn't be detected by the old style scanners are easily spotted,UGG Boots Ireland.
They're optional for all travelers, but Napolitano hoped to ease any fears that airport staff would use them to leer at passengers.
"Those who read the images are not actually physically at the gate, so they cannot associate an image with an individual person at all," she said.
"And the machines are set so that no image is retained,Ugg Boots Ireland."
They are the Yankees, defending champions of the sport, best team money can buy, most expensive pitching staff ever assembled. They are Mo Rivera, the greatest money player of them all, and Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez and Robinson Cano, their best player this season, maybe the MVP of the league and the league championship series before it's over. And here is where they are in Arlington Friday night:
Playing for their season. Again. Trying to win a play-in game to get to Cliff Lee.
It is funny how these things work out,
especially when you only manage to produce a few big innings in five games of the ALCS. The guy you didn't want to have to face - Lee - is the guy you want more than anything in the world to face.
The Yankees showed up on Wednesday in Game 5, they did, hundred percent. Now they have to do it again in Texas, or they become another big, bad Yankee team of this decade that got hit somewhere before the World Series and never recovered.
You know who is supposed to show up Friday night for Game 6? Alex Rodriguez.
So far he has three hits in the series and only one of them - two-RBI single that Michael Young should have made a play on, eighth inning of Game 1 - has mattered. There have been times when he seemed perfectly happy to take a walk, leave it to Cano when Cano was still hitting behind him.
This game Friday night, then in Game 7 if the Yankees make it, would be a good time for A-Rod to remind us that October and November of 2009 actually happened,uggs online.
Cano isn't supposed to have to carry this offense on his own. Carrying an offense is supposed to be Rodriguez's job description. Rodriguez got his numbers this season, the way he always does in the end, got to 30 home runs and 125 RBI,Uggs outlet sale, even hitting just .270. Friday night he is the one who's supposed to hit the ball over the fence, do something to get his team to Cliff Lee. This is the night when big Yankees show up, make the kind of swing A-Rod made against the Twins in the last postseason, the Angels, the Phillies.
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