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Glass exit portals: Security to leave the airport

By Carolyn Thompson
Published December 2, 2013 5:00am ET
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Glass exit portals: Security to leave the airport
FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2012 file photo, passengers walk through security portals at the Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. The doors are designed to keep people from coming back through exits to secure areas, and to keep the TSA from posting a guard at such exits. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein, File) MANDATORY CREDIT | Michael Ein

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Now you have to pass through security to leave the airport.

Futuristic unmanned portals have replaced officers at the security exits of two small Northeast airports, adding a few seconds in a bulletproof glass pod to the end of every passenger’s trip.

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