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Airlines to Ask More of Passengers

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Extra personal info should prevent watch-list mixups.

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All who've been wrongly barred from flying thanks to a terrorist watch-list "mixup," take heart: On Saturday, U.S. airlines will start asking travelers to provide their birth date and gender under a new aviation-security requirement, in an effort to prevent no-fly-list confusion.

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