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They Advertisementlooked like zombies to me, but they may have just been Republicans.

It was hard to tell.

As we zombies chilled on the sidewalk, the director set up the camera on the roof of the seven-story Crandall Building.

In the scene we were shooting, "The Rising's" human survivors are trapped in the building by a horde of hungry undead.

"There's been a virus that's killed most of the population.

And then they [the zombies] start to rise from the dead," explained Zombie Video Check out photos from the Zombie shoot.

co-director Dave Sasich, who developed the project with his brother, co-director Eli.

No wonder they chose to shoot in deserted downtown Salt Lake on a Sunday - it's lonelier than the men's room at an Indigo Girls concert.

Before we could shoot the crowd scene, however, we needed to learn how to walk like zombies.

So producer Jack Allred and second assistant director Maxwell Morrill gave us a tutorial.

"There's a specific body motion we need for this scene," Morrill said.

"It's not the typical Frankenstein, arms-straight-out walk.

It's more of a rigor-mortis-setting-in, joints-stiffening, leg-dragging shuffle." Got it.

But what's my motivation?

"You're hungry for the scent of human flesh," he said.

By 3 p.m., the crowd of zombies had swelled to more than 200, thanks in p...

Yet finding cleansing liquid in small bottles is difficult.

Christopher Slaughter, who works at a video production company in Hong Kong and travels throughout Asia and to the United States and Britain, will sometimes fill his contact-lens case so he has enough solution for the flight.

But more often than not, he has put his lenses away and worn glasses for the flight.

The restrictions on carrying contact-lens solution, he said, "is the best argument for the Lasik surgery." While Slaughter has been unable to take his contact-lens solution on trips to the United States and Britain, he has been able to carry liquids on flights to countries in Asia that have yet to adopt the 3-1-1 guidelines.

That loophole, however, is closing.

In March, Hong Kong and New Zealand joined Australia, Japan, South Korea and several Pacific Island countries on the list of nations following the rules.

More travelers have found that avoiding carrying on toiletries entirely is the ultimate solution.

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