1.   One hundred percent airline security is a practical impossibility.

2.   As it now stands, the federal government is not involved in airline security and does not certify security companies.

3.   A planned Bush administration bill to provide new airline security measures could become part of a nasty partisan tug-of-war over benefits for laid-off airline workers.

4.   A Senate hearing Wednesday on airline competition quickly became a discussion of airline security.

5.   A top FAA official later acknowledged that this decision had the effect of relaxing FAA scrutiny of airline security at Logan.

6.   Airline security deadlines loom, and the just-named head of the agency, John Magaw, needs answers to lots of questions, soon.

7.   Airline security at Washington-Dulles and Boston-Logan broke down, but was there no communication among conspirators that our satellites or computers could detect?

8.   But Ives said he will not fly again until he sees much tougher airline security like that used in Europe.

9.   But that same year, a strategy for tightening airline security, proposed by a vice-presidential panel, was largely ignored.

10.   But the rest are local law enforcement officers whose thousands of business-related flights each year have thrust them onto the newly drawn front line of airline security.