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Kip Hawley is the author of a forthcoming book, "Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security" (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2012). He left his job in Silicon Valley one month after 9/11 to help build the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Apr 20th 2012, 15:10 by R.G. METRO, a London freesheet, has a fine article about 3-D printing today.
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