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From: Liz Ditz <ponytrax@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 27, 2004 1:06:08 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Air travel without ID.

Dear Dave, [for IP if you wish]: Air travel w/out ID with teens.

My daughter (Allison the Adorable*) is now 15 1/2 years old.  While she  
has a passport, and I mostly remember to bring it with me when we fly,   
we usually don't present official ID when we travel. (And we fly about  
4-5 times per year.)   What the security systems seem to expect from  
teens below driving age are school IDs, which she's never had  (the  
wonders of going to a small school or homeschooling. )  Her lack of ID  
has never been questioned.  I have never had to produce her passport.    
  She has never been selected for additional examination (wanding,  
etc.)

Who is to say that a person dedicated to taking over an aircraft can't  
be young and cute?  I passed for 14 when I was 25.  I wonder how  
different our experience would be if she weren't so cute, or so white,  
or so blue-eyed, or if she wore a hijab,

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*This list is largely for scientists.  Substantiating claims of  
adorability:
photo here:  
http://lizditz.typepad.com/photos/family_photos_more_curren/ 
al_liz_grad_03_1.html

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Liz Ditz
ponytrax@xxxxxxxxxx
cell: 650-303-5967

blog: http://lizditz.typepad.com

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On Aug 27, 2004, at 8:42 AM, David Farber wrote: