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[zzzzteana] Scissors are a snip for Third World
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From sentto-2242572-53808-1031308225-zzzz=spamassassin.taint.org@returns.groups.yahoo.com  Fri Sep  6 11:49:00 2002

The Times
September 06, 2002
Scissors are a snip for Third World
From Richard Owen in Rome
IT IS one of the unanswered questions of the past year: what happens to the
millions of nail scissors confiscated by airport security officials from
passengers’ hand luggage? Most are thrown away or recycled after being seized
as part of security measures since September 11. But an enterprising chaplain
is sending them to Catholic missionaries for distribution to Third World
hospitals and clinics. In theory travellers who have left nail scissors, nail
files, corkscrews or manicure sets from their hand luggage can arrange for
them to be returned. In practice many just shrug and leave the scissors by the
X-ray scanners.
Father Arturo Rossini, chaplain of Malpensa airport in Milan, said that
scissors were costly or unavailable in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin
America.
He told Corriere della Sera that he had “plucked up the courage” to ask the
authorities if he could have the confiscated scissors. With the help of a
retired airport policeman, he had packaged 60,000 nail scissors and manicure
sets, using the airport chapel as a packing centre.
Packages were shipped in aircraft holds to Peru, Brasil, India, Mozambique,
Argentina, Zambia and Kenya. “In such countries, what we think of as a
personal grooming accessory can be a vital tool.”
The idea has been taken up at other Italian airports.
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