Word: collectivity
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...started to collect stamps again, which, I confess, is somewhat embarrassing. There's nothing cool, hip or urbane about it. James Bond never showed off his stamp collection. But I do confess I like it, having taken about a 33-year hiatus from when I was a 10-year-old in New Jersey and used to fill books with stamps of moon landings and soldiers and exotic birds. Having a young son now has heightened my interest and so has this week's once-in-a-decade stamp show in Washington...
...yearned incessantly for the motherland. Their wives were even more miserable, and some naturally took to having affairs, especially in the hill station of Simla, where the thin mountain air was reputed to encourage promiscuity. As Gilmour notes, almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension and get back to Britain. Yet once home, a strange fondness for India would often afflict them, and they would spend their evenings sunk in a club chair with a gin and tonic, boring everyone with endless tales of the Punjab...
...data that saves a lot of legwork and saves a lot of time," Kortan told TIME. While saying it did not sound plausible that the FBI has bought phone records from Advanced Research, Kortan said he hasn't looked into the matter closely. "We have very established ways of collecting information. The FBI can only collect and retain data available from commercial databases in strict compliance with applicable federal...
...Most purchasers of cellphone records online tend to be those checking up on a spouse or trying to collect debts. Other users include lawyers, private investigators and the police. While the evidence is not admissible in court, knowing whom a suspect is talking to can prove useful in solving crimes and inducing confessions. "Just because evidence is not used at trial doesn?t mean it has no effect on the case or that there?s no harm," says Sherwin Siy, staff counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Texas-based PDJ Investigations, which runs several online information-gathering sites, along...
...women obtained life insurance policies for the homeless men through several companies, including Mutual of Omaha and Monumental Life. After the men had signed the policies, authorities allege the women provided the transients with food and shelter for a little over two years before mowing them down to collect the payments. The waiting period appears to stem from California insurance law that allows companies to contest new policies only within two years of issuing them...