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Il ministro alla Salute Ferruccio Fazio prova il body scanner

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A crowd of photographers and video cameramen film Italian Health Minister Ferruccio Fazio inside a body scanner during its presentation to journalists, at Rome’s Fiumicino International Airport, Thursday, March 4, 2010. Rome’s main airport is trying out Italy’s first body scanner at a terminal that serves U.S. airliners. Authorities said the scanner went into use Thursday at Leonardo da Vinci airport’s Terminal 5 on an experimental basis. If there are no problems after a few weeks, more machines will be added. Italy’s civil aviation agency says that unlike other scanners using X-rays, this machine employs electromagnetism because the nation’s laws permit X-ray use only for medical reasons.