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...father and uncle were former FBI agents, and when Christopher Boyce was investigated for security clearance, he came up clean. TRW, a major CIA contractor, hired the young man with the genius IQ, and Boyce went to work in the company's code room. Now serving a 40-year sentence for selling spy-satellite information to the U.S.S.R., Boyce, 32, told a Senate subcommittee last week that once he was granted top-secret clearance and saw how inefficient security procedures were, he "decided the intelligence community was a great, bumbling, bluffing deception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spying to Support a Life-Style | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

CHICAGO The City of Broad Shoulders opts for transparency on www.cityofchicago.org, listing vendors, contracts and lobbyists. Still doubt Chicago's gone clean? Watch city trash get recycled live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your City In Cyberspace | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...harder for Fox to trumpet his accomplishments when criminals like El Verdugo are on the loose. According to Mexican officials, Lazcano was a clean-cut Mexican army recruit from the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz when he was picked a decade ago to be part of the highly trained Airborne Special Forces Group. The unit was sent to the eastern border to battle drug trafficking. But in the late 1990s, Lazcano and more than 30 other members of the special forces began working for drug lord Osiel Cárdenas, head of the Matamoros-based Gulf cartel, which at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killers Next Door | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...CLEAN AND DISINFECT Spyware?programs that covertly send information about your Web activities to third parties?is often a big reason a computer is acting sluggish. Fix it with software like Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition (download free at www.lavasoftusa.com) or Spy Sweeper 3.5 (webroot.com; $29.95 for a one-year subscription). To avoid future digital insurgencies, set your Web browser to block pop-up ads. The Firefox browser (mozilla.com) makes that easy, and experts say it has fewer security vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer. Make sure your antivirus program is up to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

Impassioned TV viewers responded to the cover story on efforts to clean up sleazy programming. Some called for more oversight to reduce the level of sex, violence and profanity, but most objected to government involvement. Many felt the values activists should let grownups make their own decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 18, 2005 | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

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