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Dozens of tourist agencies cater to this clientele, which is made up of both pedophiles and pederasts taking advantage of lax law enforcement in Third World nations. Pederasts in particular have lots of help in finding a good time in Asia, Africa or Latin America. Numerous gray-market publications and computer networks provide information. One of the most notorious guides to world sex spas for homosexuals seeking boys is called the Spartacus International Gay Guide; available since the 1970s, it is now published in Germany in several languages...
...Lax grading allows instructors--of all ranks--to slide by without doing much of anything; it's easy to give a paper an A and write no comments. But a stricter policy would force all teachers to examine and criticize work more carefully. Giving high grades for mediocre work fosters contempt for the instructor, the field, the institution, and academia in general...
...have passed laws regulating the industry's water-quality and -labeling standards. Several, like Georgia, require companies to provide documented proof of their sources for water. Vermont requires bottlers to disclose any amounts of lead, arsenic and nitrate in their beverages. Spurred by criticism that its enforcement has been lax, the Food and Drug Administration this month began drafting tough new rules for the industry...
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...Lax grading allows instructors--of all ranks--to slide by without doing much of anything: it's easy to give a paper an A and write no comments. But a stricter policy would force all teachers to examine and criticize work more carefully. Along the same lines, grade inflation makes it impossible to evaluate teachers accurately. Students tend to be unduly harsh with tough graders--who, ironically, tend to be the most dedicated and hardworking teachers...