The suspicious items were discovered over the course of a frantic inspection of packages, many of them abandoned as pedestrians, runners and others rushed away from crowded public streets.

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By law, the across-the-board cuts are supposed to be taken in equal measure from front-line programs like air traffic control, meat inspection and the Border Patrol and lower-priority items such as agriculture research and subsidies for airline travel to rural airports.

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