More Caveats Than Clarity in Batteries-in-Baggage Rule
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LAST week, I spent most of an afternoon trying to get a cogent explanation of a confusing news release issued late on the Friday before New Yearâs by a mouthful of an agency called the United States Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
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New lead-acid batteries could achieve high performance.
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Pack away those power cells Virgin Atlantic has become the third airline to restrict the use of Apple and Dell laptop batteries on its flights. Passengers who want to take their Inspirons, Lattitudes, iBooks, PowerBooks, MacBooks or MacBook Pros onto the carrier's planes are asked to remove the battery first.â¦
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Shoes off at airport security checkpoints. Forms that are hard to understand. Complaints that go unheeded.
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Thereâs something not quite kosher about some private equity dealings, or so it seems to me. But I could be wrong.
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Established security players profit from the rush to look for bad things in luggage and spot faces of evil-doers in crowds -- without real technology breakthroughs. But some little guys with the right products may get in on the homeland-security market, as well.
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Karen Gral knows how difficult it is to travel with small children: standing in long lines with squirming toddlers, dealing with new security rules that prohibit liquids -- including some baby foods -- and lugging strollers, car seats and diaper bags through airports.
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Travel: 'One bag only' rule lifted at some airports, but retained at others
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Plans to lift the one piece hand luggage limit for airline passengers is expected to lead to mass confusion, airport officials say.
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To help reduce the risk of fires, air travelers will no longer be able to pack loose lithium batteries in checked luggage beginning Jan. 1, the Transportation Department said Friday
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Stores are stocked with an abundance of featherweight gadgets. But some of these tiny gadgets raise a new question: how small is too small?
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Automakers are pitching hands-free technology as a safe way to rein in the expanding clutter of gadgetry, but these devices are probably not as safe as you think.
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Duty free sales will suffer from the stringent security restrictions imposed on in-flight hand luggage, experts said, but as the anti-terror measures stay, the duty-free lobby is already eyeing up ways around them.
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New rules that will require the scanning of all cargo containers imported to the United States, a move to stop nuclear weapons being shipped in, are expensive, unnecessary and misguided, industry and security experts said.
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By Goldsborough, Reid  Airline rules continue to change regarding carry-on toiletries as well as carry-on laptop computers. Some airlines banned the batteries of certain laptops because of the risk that they might explode midair. As of this writing, rules for each were easing.
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Stores are stocked with an abundance of featherweight gadgets. But some of these tiny gadgets raise a new question: How small is too small?
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Few precise details of the product are known although the company has been releasing tidbits of information.