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An Anonymous Coward writes:

This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:

University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.

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Original Submission

1. "the front lines of the War on the Unusual:" - http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ivy-league-professor-doing-math-equation-flight-mistaken-terrorist-n569911
2. "differential equations" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_equation
3. "kick" - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslim-woman-kicked-off-plane-as-flight-attendant-said-she-did-not-feel-comfortable-with-the-a6986661.html
4. "him off" - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/muslim-family-kicked-off-united-airlines-flight-for-how-they-looked-a6964471.html
5. "the" - http://college.usatoday.com/2016/04/19/calif-student-pulled-off-southwest-airlines-my-crime-was-i-spoke-arabic/
6. "flight." - http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/travel/aeromexico-sikh-turban-waris-ahluwalia/
7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=13572

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