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T-ray scanners are developing rapidly, but so are the threats facing the personnel who would use them.

David L. Shenkenberg, FEATURES Editor, [email protected]

On Sept. 21, 2007 – just six years and 10 days after two planes took off from Boston’s Logan International Airport and rammed into the World Trade Center in New York – MIT undergraduate Star Simpson entered the very same airport wearing some LED lights attached to a plastic board, with attached battery dangling, on the front of her hooded sweatshirt. Unremarkably, she had gone to the airport to wait for someone – in this case, a man who identified himself as her boyfriend. She went to the information booth to ask about incoming flights, but little did she know that an airport staffer...Read full article

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