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...three latest cases have increased the sense of alarm in Washington that the U.S. intelligence community has been lax in detecting moles within its midst. Yet many saw the arrests as the fruits of an intensive crackdown. "I think it was a good week," FBI Director William Webster said in an interview with TIME. "It shows that those who want to betray have a substantial risk on their hands of being detected and prosecuted and given severe sentences." In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President Reagan declared, "We will not hesitate to root out and prosecute the spies...
...second largest polluter. A U.N. report found that emissions from China nearly doubled from 1994 to 2002. "In the next 10 years the problem will become even more serious," predicts Zhu Tong, an environmental-science professor at Peking University, who notes that China's skyrocketing car ownership and lax implementation of power-plant-emission regulations could be an asphyxiating mix for global air quality...
...investigation into academic plagiarism published in December 2004, the Chronicle of Higher Education found that “the same professors who constantly bemoan their students’ lax attitudes toward plagiarism often clam up when it is their colleagues doing the copying...
...Steen said that the lax security surrounding students’ and staff’s ID numbers is not usually a serious risk...
...there for him in nearly the numbers in which they watched Friends. Sunday, when The Contender, the boxing reality show from Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) proved to have a glass jaw. Pretty much any night that saw the debuts of a poor-performing class of new shows (LAX, Hawaii, Committed, Father of the Pride...