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Here's what screeners cannot do:
Ask you to remove your shoes before entering the metal detector.
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Perhaps the author should tell this to the folks at EGE who, today, made every passenger remove there shoes and place them on the x-ray (along with all outerwear) before entering the metal detector.
Anyone who would write such a story has obviously not done much flying lately.
[This message has been edited by Dudster (edited 01-14-2002).]