Cheers, Ken Hanly
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Robert Dean" <qualiall_2 at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:27 AM Subject: Acting Strange...
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> Neuroscientist forced off plane
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> 11/14/01
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> JULIE SULLIVAN
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> The Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting is the
> largest of its kind, drawing 25,000 of the world's
> brain biologists. Among them, Thanos Tzounopoulos of
> Portland who in a black suit, got to the airport two
> hours early Sunday to travel.
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> He was in Seat 19C, the meeting agenda on his lap,
> awaiting the 2:41 p.m. takeoff when a ground-based
> Alaska Airlines employee boarded and asked him to step
> outside.
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> You cannot fly, he was told, because a passenger had
> complained that his behavior was strange.
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> "Are you serious?" asked Tzounopoulos. He had a panel
> of international colleagues to meet with that evening.
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> On Sunday, according to a signed report prepared by an
> Alaska Airlines supervisor, Tzounopoulos was removed
> from the flight after an unnamed passenger told a
> flight attendant that the 32-year-old researcher was
> "acting strange" and the flight attendant observed
> that he appeared "very nervous" and "seemed
> uncomfortable."
> Full Story:
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