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SCANDAL-LESS The TSA wants this ProVision ATD machine in Helena, Mont., for itself. It provides less-detailed images as comparison below shows.
ger airports in the system,” Dave Rup- pel, who manages a regional airport in Steamboat Springs, Colo., told The Associated Press. The Associated Press reports that
when TSA contractors showed up at the Helena, Mont. airport to remove an L3 machine, local offi cials threat- ened to have them arrested. And in Grand Forks, N.D., TSA offi cials want to yank a scanner from a terminal that was recently reconfi gured to fi t the new scan-
Scanners Yanked From Airports
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taff at scores of small air- ports around the country are
angry that federal offi cials are confi s- cating new, full-body scanners from their facilities. The scanners taken from smaller
hubs are being re-installed at major airports, whose older scanners gener- ated images of airline passengers that were deemed excessively revealing. The Transportation Security Admin-
istration has identifi ed 174 such scan- ners. By law, they must be yanked out of service by June 1. To make up for the losses at big air-
ports, federal authorities are remov- ing the newer L3 Millimeter Wave body scanners from 49 smaller cities around the country. The L3 scanners produce a more cartoon-like image of a person’s body. “Smaller airports are being treated as less important as big-
ner. The TSA says it is moving the scanners to improve conditions at air- ports with greater traffi c. But local air- port managers point out that passing smaller airports provide access to the entire air-traffi c system. Now, they’ll have to go back to
using metal detectors, which have been deemed less eff ective. Despite the introduction of full-
body scanners, airports continue to experience security problems. On Feb. 25, for example, an undercover TSA agent with a mock explosive device hidden in his pants passed through a series of security checkpoints — includ- ing a TSA pat down — at Newark Lib- erty International Airport.
Number of Food Stamp Recipients Breaks All Records BY DAVID ALLIOT
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he number of americans tapping into food stamps, offi cially called the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program or SNAP, has reached an all-time high — 47.8 million for the month of December 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency that handles the program. SNAP enrollment has mushroomed 70 percent since 2008, with a total of 15 per-
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cent of the country receiving benefi ts — almost double the 1975 rate when the United States faced crippling infl ation,
MSN.com reports. The United States spent $74.6 billion on food stamp
benefi ts in 2012 — more than double what was spent before the Great Recession. The state with the highest number of recipients was Texas, with over 4 million peo- ple accepting benefi ts — 15.5 percent of the population.
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