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Woman who thought Italian mathematician’s model was ‘terrorist code’ delays flight

By Kyle Feldscher
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Woman who thought Italian mathematician’s model was ‘terrorist code’ delays flight

Math can be scary, but it shouldn’t be that scary.

An American Airlines flight was delayed by hours after a woman reported her seatmate might be a terrorist. In reality, he was an Italian-born Ivy League economist working on a quantitative model.

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