1.   Already many courthouses are more difficult to enter than airport gate areas.

2.   Also, those seeing off passengers will no longer be able to enter gate areas.

3.   But as we walked toward the gate area, a woman from security back at the X-ray machine loudly called us back.

4.   Delta recently announced plans for wireless Internet connections in its airport gate areas and Crown Room lounges.

5.   However, the gate areas to which they now lead would be demolished.

6.   In the gate area, automated ticketing kiosks with touch-screen technology allow passengers to receive their boarding pass in less than a minute.

7.   Inside the terminal, signs at the security entrances said that only ticketed passengers would be allowed to the gate areas, another new federal rule.

8.   Lewinsky circumvented the crush, going directly from the first-class cabin into a waiting car without ever entering the gate area.

9.   Most big airports are served by hydrant systems, in which fuel is piped from a tank farm to each gate area.

10.   More jets have laptop plug-ins, and Delta soon will offer wireless connections at gate areas and in Crown Room lounges.