I was pulled aside just as I was boarding the plane to be re-screened, a process that apparently required reading every scrap of paper in my possession and re-possessing a pen from Paris in Las Vegas as somehow being airport property -- after all, it said "Paris" on it, didn't it. I barely got in before the doors closed. And I'm a woman. I figured it was a case of trying to prove to Americans that they're as serious as Americans about the security nonsense, especially after the shoe bomber debacle. But it is not a procedure I would like to see implemented anywhere else.