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...public registry and barred from living or working within 1,000 ft. of a school or a child-care center anywhere in the U.S., Cambodian authorities were not notified when Sporich relocated to Phnom Penh in 2006. Sporich was arrested after an investigation by a local agency - Action Pour Les Enfants-Cambodia - alleged that he had lured three Cambodian boys ages 9 to 12 to his home with toys and candies. Court documents state that Sporich also enticed them by dropping Cambodian currency in the street as he rode along on a motorbike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Move to Register Sex Offenders Globally | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...even though it has shown little interest in the past in curbing the excesses of the markets. At the same time, any politician who meddles with the Fed gets pilloried for threatening its hallowed independence; it's like the Supreme Court, if the Supreme Court could pour trillions of dollars wherever it wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Reappointed Bernanke to the Fed | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Widener Library: 1. Titanic library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. Home to the stacks, where students go to pour over books. Yup, nothing but readin’ in these stacks...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Smitty thinks that the college process should be about self-discovery and growing up - not board scores and grade-point averages. So he urges students to talk with classmates about their essays, and really to pour their souls into their writing - what I call essay therapy. Too many students just see the college application as one more task during senior year. But it should be one of the best learning experiences of high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the College-Admissions Process | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...After all, this is the land where salarymen pour over comic books on their way to work and where stay-at-home moms are also videogame afficionados. In many ways, robotics combines two of Japan's biggest cultural crushes: technology and animation. Some experts say the roots of the national love of robotics are in Japan's Shinto religion, which blurs the line between the inanimate and animate and in which followers believe that all things, including objects, can possess living spirits. "Robots have a long and friendly history in Japan, and humanoid robots are considered to be living things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind Japan's Love Affair with Robots? | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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