Word: illicitness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Program for $27,000 of collect phone calls from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe full of moon rocks. They were caught when they later tried to unload the illicit geology on the miniscule market for authentic lunar objects...
According to the Yale Daily News, Yale officals say the university has “hired an agent to identify illicit file sharing.” The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act is cited as the motivation behind this move, though the act only requires service providers to remove or block access to copyrighted information after receiving notification from the copyright’s owner. To top it off, Yale has reduced the maximum possible Kazaa connection speed to a slothly 50 kb per second, allowing students to download a sizeable movie over the course of about a week...
Andrew M. Fichte ’05 procured his DHAs the illicit way. “I stole them from a friend of mine who played baseball,” he says. “I was so much cooler than him, I deserved it much more than he did.” In light of that view, it is somewhat surprising that modesty lies behind Andrew’s DHAppreciation. “I don’t like to wear clothes that have Harvard blatantly written all over them,” he says...
...wife. But when Kate's husband Rich, a low-energy architect, picks up the household slack, she loses interest in him. She is hard-wired to want a hunter-gatherer and nearly has an affair with one, an alpha millionaire client. But she cheats on her boss instead, stealing "Illicit Mummy Time," which requires "the same lies to get away for the tryst, the same burst of fulfillment and, of course, the guilt...
...chief concern for the organizers and the authorities alike was drugs. Festival officials warned bands not to bring illicit substances, threatening--emptily, it turned out--to search the musicians thoroughly at the airport and subject them to random urinalysis. The bands' playlists also received a cavity probe. Before the festival opened, each band was asked to send a representative to what was described as an "extremely important meeting." There organizers announced that six songs had been struck by local government sponsors for "unhealthy" lyrics. The band originally scheduled to go on second, Masturbation (whose singer has a penchant for removing...