Sears Tower Security Checkpoints Increase Screening
Employees and visitors at the Sears Tower will be screened with metal detectors and have bags X-rayed as part of heightened security by TrizecHahn Corp. Anyone not complying will be denied entry. Lines formed Monday morning as bags were scanned. Federal authorities have not issued any specific threats. Security staffing has doubled since the attacks, with off duty Chicago police patrolling the lobby and dogs sniffing trucks and packages at the loading dock.
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Sears Tower
Chicago
Sears
TrizecHahn Corp
Mark Spencer
TrizecHahn
Spencer
Aiken Standard prompts baggage scan rollout at building
Aiken Standard reports on new X ray baggage scanners debuting Monday in the tower’s two main lobbies. Metal detectors will operate in a week, per memo to the building’s 125 tenants from city officials.
Sea level rise linked to global warming study says coastlines up to two feet
International researchers report Maine coastlines rose 12 to 20 inches and Nova Scotia up to two feet over 250 years. Using salt marsh cores and foraminifera, they reconstruct levels dating back 1,200 years in Maine and 300 years in Nova Scotia, with 1912 tide gauges confirming 20th century trends.
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Portland
Maine
Nova Scotia
Roland Gehrels
University of Plymouth
England
Geological Society of America
Boston
Gehrels
University of Maine
Reading University
Machinsport
Wells
Cheztercook
Orson van de Plassche
The
Free University
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Connecticut
Joseph T. Kelley
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