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Wendy Diamond

Retriever Nose Best: Dogs Follow Their Scents in Travel Safety

  In maintaining public safety in the nation’s airports, officials inevitably send in the dogs.  Even in this age of technology, aviation officials believe a dog’s nose remains the best machine for detecting suspicious material.   Hounds trained to sniff explosives and other hazardous substances accurately identify even microscopic residue

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Wendy Diamond

Pets on Wheels — Triumphs & Travails of Traveling With Your Pet

  Travel with pets is either rewarding or risky business. Consider Mike Bell. Last June, the quality assurance manager for Network Associates in Santa Clara, boarded United Airlines for his direct flight home to California from Washington, D.C.  While Bell’s boarding pass was coded, correctly, for San Jose, his dog’s

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