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Ask the Pilot: What have we come to when foreign airlines tout around-the-world travel that avoids the U.S.? Plus: Make your own airline route maps. And: Wizz Air?

All right, no doubt you caught the latest Transportation Security Administration alert. Allegedly, would-be saboteurs engaged in terror-attack rehearsals have been caught trying to sneak bomb-making materials past airport security. Over the past several weeks, we are told, screeners have confiscated various improvised components -- including, um, wires sticking from blocks of cheese. A new twist on the "dry runs" conspiracy we've been following for the past three years. I have decided <i>not</i> to author an entire column on this bizarre story because I run the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time. (For reference, click over to my earlier discussions, such as <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2006/08/25/askthepilot198/">this one</a> or <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/06/08/askthepilot235/">this one.</a>)<p>...</p><img src="http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/tech/~4/142580537" height="1" width="1"/>

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