Word: porousness
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...real damage from the Lee case isn't the leaks from porous national labs or the mystery of secrets that got away. Instead, the case makes it harder to believe that in America at least, the government will always ensure that the punishment fits the crime. After last week, it's almost reasonable to ask whether federal agents cut corners on all their cases or just the ones involving Chinese Americans and national security. "Most federal cases are well founded and ethically prosecuted," says John Barrett, a former U.S. prosecutor who teaches law at St. John's University...
...with Lehane, a sort of higher-pitched, 78-rpm Mike McCurry who likes to use words like "indefatigable" and ask reporters if they're sure the world wouldn't be a better place if they quoted him using the word "indefatigable." On the trip, Lehane is the semi-porous membrane between reporter and Big Cheese, and press requests are supposed to go through him. So I'm more than a little worried when he tells me the e-mail proposal sounds fine, but that he doesn't know when the vice president will have time to write an e-mail...
...UMass netminder gave up 21 goals against No. 3 Loyola last Saturday when the Greyhounds registered 48 shots on the cage. Campolettano is certainly porous, but needs to be tested...
...knows exactly how many tigers prowl Russia's taiga, the vast northern forest, but their numbers have dropped sharply in recent years, perhaps to no more than 350. The pressure on the animal intensified in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed and Chinese traders flowed across the newly porous border with Russia. In traditional Chinese medicine, tiger parts are reputed to have almost magical powers, and even though China has outlawed products made from the endangered cats, traders will pay Russian poachers big money for bones that will fetch $10,000 a lb. on Hong Kong's black market...
...case of Administration anxiety came largely from the sudden appearance of a 32-year-old Algerian named Ahmed Ressam. Trying to sneak into the U.S. from Canada, he was caught by luck as much as diligence. The 3,000-odd-mile northern border of the U.S. is as porous as Swiss cheese. Some checkpoints are screened only by video camera. The one at Port Angeles, Wash., where Ressam was arrested, might have seemed like a sleepy, lax place to cross into the U.S. But around 6 p.m. on Dec. 14, Diana Dean, an inspector working that checkpoint, was doing...