the times september NUMBER NUMBER 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 NUMBER 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 NUMBER NUMBER 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 yahoo groups sponsor plan to sell a home URL to unsubscribe from this group send an email to forteana unsubscribe URL your use of yahoo groups is subject to URL 