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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SirVinny who wrote (351845)9/25/2007 6:10:49 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1574976
 
Tensions are high and many people are understandably nervous. Little old ladies being cuffed for carrying nail clippers on a plane or airports being evacuated because a vacationing family had a bottle of shampoo in their carry on luggage.

Let me see.....she was at the airport to pick up her boyfriend. She wore one of her school projects to show her boyfriend. She also had some putty/play doh shaped in a rose to give to her boyfriend.

This is the circuit board she wore......it looks to be about the size of a brick:



While I think its an odd piece of jewelry, I've seen much worse. Someone mistaking it for a bomb would have to have an overactive imagination IMO.

And if "tensions are running high", whose fault is it? 9/11 was bad enough but there are leaders in this country who take every opp. to invoke fear.......they run their campaigns on that fear [see Nagel's comments this AM].

"For those unfamiliar with the story, the student is Star Simpson, a 19-year-old MIT sophomore. On Friday, she went to meet a friend at Boston's Logan Airport, but made the mistake of wearing her Career Day outfit: a sweatshirt to which she'd attached a circuit board, light and battery. On the back of the sweatshirt she wrote, in reference to her dual electrical engineering and computer science major, "Socket to me" and Course VI."

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