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...After the principal at Our Lady of Charity (a private Catholic school that is not formally affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church) heard of the illicit relationship last week, she reported it to the state's Department of Children and Family Services. Police questioned Hernandez last weekend - after she returned from a trip to Disney World with the boy - and she made a taped confession, they say. She was charged with sexual battery on a minor, akin to statutory rape, but has not yet been arraigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Epidemic: Teachers Sleeping with Students | 5/30/2009 | See Source »

...reasons for this trend is that middle management, often a company's eyes and ears for detecting illicit activity, regularly bears the brunt of redundancies during a slowdown. "When that layer's removed, you've eroded your internal processes which are there to control fraud or misconduct," says Hitesh Patel, fraud-investigation partner at KPMG in London. A key factor in fraud cases during Britain's last recession, in the early 1990s, it amounts to a "change to business strategy, without a change to the business process," says Patel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reasons Fraud Spikes in a Recession | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Unfortunately, as long as people are prescribed study drugs, there will always be a black market among students. Even more important than stopping the illegal drug selling, however, is addressing the underlying reason why so many students feel the need to use illicit substances to expand their mental and physical capacities. Students should realize that they won’t need to swallow pills if they stop trying to accomplish more than is within their natural abilities...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Overcommitted to Medication | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Most international observers, including the International Atomic Energy Agency have agreed that Iran is operating an illicit uranium-enrichment program to develop material for use in a nuclear weapon. It is the national interest of the United States, Israel, Russia, the European Union, and most Arab nations to prevent this nation from developing nuclear weapons...

Author: By Daniel A. Handlin | Title: Nuclear Nightmares | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...shot from the 1958 film My Uncle, featuring the filmmaker in his iconic pose: riding a Solex, decked out in felt hat and overcoat, signature pipe clenched between his teeth. Forced by Métrobus - and, claims the company, France's advertising law - to do something about the illicit pipe, the Cinématheque decided not to airbrush it out, but instead drew a yellow propeller over the bowl to turn it into a child's pinwheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Paris Métro, Even Dead Legends Can't Smoke | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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