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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 11:31 am
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The new scanners, officially called the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), purport to make the jobs of the TSA employees easier by revealing if the person being scanned has any potentially dangerous objects concealed on their person.
a.k.a. Drugs
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