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...that brings us to the second part of the solution. What should governments be doing? Some, most notably in the European Union, think they should pass laws restricting the use of personal data. Others, like the U.S., restrict the use of medical information but are pretty lax on almost everything else. Still others haven't addressed the issue. (And all are hampered by the fact that their citizens use websites outside their own country and beyond their own government's control...
Reputedly America's oldest athletic game, "lax" is played by a team of 10 players, each using a long stick with a webbed pouch to maneuver a ball into the opponents' goal. Male players wear helmets and pads, and they are allowed hard body checks, but in the women's game, players are not allowed to strike one another. The sport will get a boost on June 7, when the Fox Sports Net begins televising the inaugural season of Major League Lacrosse. It's made up of six teams in the Northeast, which will play games through August...
...first time, Harvard officials plan to cut off Yard access to all non-ticket holders on Class Day. Enforcement of ticketing has been lax in the past, with anybody interested able to attend...
...While the Food and Drug Administration has chosen to downplay the risk associated with tuna, watchdog organizations like the Environmental Working Group and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group are throwing up red flags, accusing the FDA of taking a lax position on an important safety issue...
...infuriating blindness that means none of my British friends have heard of Jorie Graham. Perusing his last book of lyric poems (The Breakage, Mariner Books) before Wednesday’s reading only seemed to confirm, though, that here was the most English of poets; formal, in the perversely lax manner of late Auden: Colloquial and ironic to the point of self-effacement...