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...from occurring again. “We’re also looking at a disclaimer that will be published in each edition of The Circle. It would assume the honesty of the contributors,” she told The Plainsman in an interview. “Hopefully, it will deter students from submitting plagiarized work...
...have hit the headlines. But recently, the problem has taken a new and nasty turn, with statistics showing that cell-phone theft is not only rising, it also is becoming more violent. In response, lawmakers have vowed to use everything from tough new sentencing laws to modern technologies to deter cell-phone thieves. But there remains a disquieting feeling that operators and handset makers are dragging their feet, focusing more on revenue from calls and future sales (victims need to get new phones) than customers' frustrations...
...spite of initial resistance, operators in some countries are coming together to pool information on IMEIs. In France, the country's three main operators have announced they will create a single database for serial numbers by June in order to deter theft. In Britain, BT Cellnet and Vodafone agreed to join other national operators in utilizing IMEI-based security measures: over the next six weeks, the U.K.'s four major networks will start to exchange the IMEIs of stolen handsets. Ministers are also to introduce laws making it an offence to reconfigure phones...
Another problem for would-be invaders is how to deter Saddam from launching any biological, chemical or radiological weapons he may have mounted on Scud missiles. "If Saddam feels it's the end, the constraints that acted on him last time wouldn't this time," says an Israeli diplomat. Israeli leader Ariel Sharon expressed this fear to Bush during his visit to Washington earlier this month...
Both sides generally agree that U.S. forces are needed to deter another invasion of Kuwait or Saudi Arabia and to keep up the pressure on Iraq. That is in line with the traditional basis for the strong relationship: the Saudis provide oil and the U.S. provides security. Some U.S. military men feel the Saudis "owe us" - a reference to Operation Desert Storm saving Saudi skin back in 1991. But the Saudis are fearful that a carte blanche could entangle the Kingdom in American wars against Iraq or even Iran, making popular opposition to the U.S. military presence a hot political...