"Oh, random screening," Mrs. Hicks said.
For some reason, I always make the random screening.
At LAX airport, I was selected for a random screening.
Two years ago, a random screening found I had high blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
It is thought that the extra measures at UK airports could include increased random screening of passengers and tighter scrutiny of footwear, mobile phones and computers.
When researchers found in a random screening process that the drug killed mouse cells infected with the agent that causes mad cow disease, they decided to test it quickly in people.
Following the Sept. 11 attacks, Greyhound officials instituted a series of security measures, including random screening of passengers and carry-on luggage at many bus terminals around the country.
Many existing drugs are derived from plants, and many more await discovery; according to the biodiversity nonprofit E.T.C. Group, contemporary bioprospecting is five thousand times more likely to result in a new drug if the process is guided by traditional knowledge, as opposed to random screening.
The world is flat in ways the high-flying global theoreticians don't always acknowledge; these days, even someone from the materially fortunate parts of the world – a man with a ruddy complexion, a woman in a Prada suit – is pulled aside for what is quixotically known as "random screening".
"There are still some very, very nice T.S.A. agents, so I don't want to generalize," Mr. Kapson said, "but it seems like occasionally, you come across this agent that's -- I don't want to say power hungry -- but they're on this kick like, 'You'll do what I say or you're not going anywhere".' He described an incident when he groaned, "Oh, man," as he was pulled aside for a random screening.
It was subject to a random screening and didn't make it onto my flight as a result.
