[Xenalyte]

Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport has just issued a warning--passengers are being told to pour out all liquids before boarding. This includes bottled water, cologne, contact lens solutions, lotion and hair gel.

All of which could be tasted to verify.

I don't know how contact-lens wearers can fly without drops. Airport air is so dry, I can't make it through the terminal without them, and it's worse on the planes.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport has just issued a warning--passengers are being told to pour out all liquids before boarding. This includes bottled water, cologne, contact lens solutions, lotion and hair gel.

All of which could be tasted to verify.

Would you want to be "tasting" nitroglycerin? That is the substance that was replaced in a contact lens solution bottle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434

The bomb

US prosecutors said the device was a "Mark II" "microbomb" constructed using Casio digital watches as described in Phase I of Operation Bojinka of which this was a test. On Flight 434, Yousef used one tenth of the explosive power he planned to use on eleven U.S. airliners in January of 1995. The explosive used was liquid nitroglycerin, which was disguised as a bottle of contact lens fluid. The wires he used were hidden in the heel of his shoe. At that time, metal detectors used in airports did not go down far enough to detect anything there.