Talking Point: Travails of modern travel

The new regulations against the carrying hair gel and toothpaste in airplanes unless scrutinized and okayed -- have been followed by a crop of stories that are connected to this development...

Mothers have to sample the milk to be given to babies.

This is too much --- said a Sri Lankan. This is worse than security scares that we have ever had in Sri Lanka. Said one wag "what then of breast milk?''

Answer: There are no easy solutions to that one. Passengers will have to leave their breasts behind, no? Oh, tempora, oh travel in the these times...