Delta to use Clear system to speed Logan screening

Verified Identity Pass Inc.'s Clear program, which speeds prescreened travelers through security checkpoints at participating airports, will debut at Logan International Airport's Terminal A this month, the company said. Clear gives travelers who pay $128 a year a high-tech ID card to verify their fingerprint or iris image at designated security kiosks. A Clear spokeswoman said Massport's long approval process has held up Clear's arrival, so instead Delta Air Lines is sponsoring the program at its terminal. A spokesman said he did not know if Massport had been considering Clear, but it will be interested in seeing how the program fares. More than 200,000 travelers nationwide have registered for Clear since the program began three years ago. (Nicole C. Wong)

The University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute released its final version of a $250,000 study on how the state could help life sciences companies find qualified employees. Companies have long complained that it's difficult to recruit employees such as experienced clinical researchers. Among the recommendations: Produce and retain more graduate students with interdisciplinary training, improve vocational training, and encourage younger students to consider careers in science and technology. The study, sponsored by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, is at www.donahue.umassp.edu/docs/growing_talent on the Web. (Todd Wallack)

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has agreed to buy a Seattle coffee brand for $40 million. The Waterbury, Vt., company will buy the Tully's brand and wholesale business from Tully's Coffee Corp., which will remain a separate company, its retail outlets operated under agreements with Green Mountain. Tully's sells specialty coffee via food service distributors and more than 5,000 supermarkets, primarily in the West. (AP)

Covidien AG, a unit of a company spun off by Tyco International last year, sued a rival maker of blood products, CaridianBCT, accusing it of changing its name in an effort to sow marketplace confusion. Lakewood, Colo.-based CaridianBCT in June said it was adopting that name and discarding its identity as Gambro BCT. Covidien AG and Tyco Health Care Group LP, which does business as Covidien USA and is based in Mansfield, Mass., alleged that the new appellation has been shortened to Caridian, deceiving the companies' customers, according to a complaint filed in federal court in St. Louis. (Bloomberg)

About 190,000 MacGregor and Mitre folding soccer goals were recalled after the death of a child. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said a 20-month-old Texas boy was strangled when his head and arm became entangled in the net of one of the recalled goals. The commission got one other report of a child's head becoming entangled in a net. The Chinese-made goals were distributed by Regent Sports Corp. of Hauppauge, N.Y., and sold by sports and hardware stores, including Wal-Mart and Ace Hardware. They were available between May 2002 and May 2008. The nets can be returned to Regent Sports for a free, safe replacement. For more information, call 877-516-9707. (AP)

Gilead Sciences Inc. failed to win Food and Drug Administration approval for its inhaled antibiotic for patients with cystic fibrosis. The company said the FDA sent a so-called complete-response letter, asking for another clinical study on the treatment, aztreonam lysine, to kill bacteria in the lungs. Gilead said it will work with the agency to determine whether further analysis of existing studies could win approval for the treatment or whether the California company must do another clinical trial. (Bloomberg)

The McClatchy newspaper company disclosed its second major round of job cuts and blamed a sour advertising environment for having to trim its payroll 10 percent. McClatchy Co., owner of The Miami Herald, said it expects half of the 1,150 new reductions to come through voluntary buyouts and attrition, with the rest through layoffs. The company said the cuts and other initiatives would save $100 million over the next year, not including severance costs of about $20 million. In June, McClatchy said it would lay off 1,400 full-time workers. (AP)