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UPDATE: I have written several followup posts detailing my Clear experience. http://snurl.com/2282y I coughed up $99 and joined Clear… retinal scanning…. cool. Clear security lanes will be available at SFO in September, already operating at San Jose Mineta. Travelers who join the Clear Registered Traveler program are pre-screened for security and provided with a biometric [...]
A silly measure by SF Supervisor Chris Daly to call for an end to the Blue Angels appearance at Fleet Week (a San Francisco tradition bigger than rice-a-roni) was rejected by a committee. The committee voted 2-1 to table the measure, authored by Supervisor Chris Daly, effectively killing it. But Daly, who cited public safety [...]
The U.S. dollar is surging against foreign currencies, a consequence of the spreading credit crisis that started in U.S. subprime fixed income securities. As this article points out, the irony is that when times are good the dollar weakens and when seas get rough foreign investors come back in to the safe harbor that U.S. [...]