Word: illicitness
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...Consider the North's motivation in helping Syria build a reactor: "Cash," a CIA official told reporters. The North earns hard currency any illicit way it can. The point of diplomacy is to give Kim sufficient incentives - both economic and diplomatic - to get to a point where his regime doesn't need to proliferate to survive. A return to Bush's "strangulation" strategy only increases the incentive for Kim to behave badly, with very little hope that the Pyongyang government will disappear anytime soon...
...announced a deal last week to create “CrossCheck,” an anti-plagiarism computer program for academic journals. The software utilizes much of the same technology found in iParadigms’ “TurnItIn,” the program used by colleges to find illicit reproductions in students’ papers, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Katherine J. Povejsil, iParadigms’ vice president of marketing, said that CrossCheck identifies matching passages and provides the full text articles . “Our service cannot detect plagiarism,” Povejsil said...
...have a cell phone or a computer, has purposely impaled his doorbell with a screwdriver so as not to be bothered, and uses a periscope perched on his window to verify the identities of those who knock. He is perhaps best known as either the subject or photographer of illicit acts. Almost one full year ago I visited one of his new installations, made with Dan Colen, at a gallery in my neighborhood. “Nest” was an adaptation of the “hamster nests” that the two artists had previously created privately...
...around 5 p.m. on April 2, local police and officers from the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation descended on a four-story warehouse in suburban Manila. They were acting on a tip-off about possible illicit activity. But the agents weren't searching for drugs or knockoff Rolexes. They were looking for rice. The inspection was part of a nationwide effort to nab profiteers who, taking advantage of sky-high prices for Asia's most basic food, are suspected of repackaging government-subsidized rice and reselling it at higher market rates. Officers have had some success, discovering 27,000 bags...
Lowell House residents emptied their rooms of illicit stashes of plates, cups, silverware, and even the occasional salt shaker last night as part of the one-day “Operation Dish Storm”—an initiative aimed at recovering dining hall property that had made its way into student suites over the course of the year. Lowell’s Resource Efficiency Program representative (REP), Susan E. DeWolf ’10, launched the initiative as part of an effort to bring the Green Cup—for the most environmentally conscious House?...