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...soil might slip into the hands of irresponsible governments or terrorists elsewhere on the planet. More than 25 countries are on the road to building weapons of mass destruction -- or buying them from those who have too many arms and too little money. Every industrial state is trying to steal another's high-tech secrets and protect its own. Terrorism is a multifaceted worry, emerging from religious and ethnic conflicts around the globe. Governments -- whole countries -- are being subverted by billionaire drug traffickers...
...full scope of changes is not reflected simply in organizational tinkering. International conflict is increasingly becoming a struggle for economic and commercial success, for contracts, exports and market share. This means the successful nations are trying to steal high-tech secrets from one another. The Third World and former communist states do not have the money to buy or build themselves quickly to prosperity, so they are seeking a shortcut by stealing technological, scientific and commercial secrets from more advanced countries...
...bribing foreign governments to give contracts to their countries' companies" rather than American firms. Though these forms of hard-knuckled competition are not new, Washington says it's not going to take them quietly anymore. That accounts for the fuss the U.S. made last month over French efforts to steal American technical and commercial secrets. The CIA issued an official warning that companies attending the Paris Air Show would be exposing their trade secrets to scrutiny by French agents. Hughes Aircraft stayed home, and Pratt & Whitney decided not to display what it had hoped would be its technological showpiece...
...five decades have done little to change other student groups. According to Sheeline, while the Lampoon was "doing its usual crazy things." The Crimson stealthily crept to the top of the Castle in 1942 to steal the Ibis "a difficult feat done brilliantly by The [Crimson] staff." And The Crimson beat the Poonsters softball squad by the unbelievable score of 23-2. Mirth-seeking students read the Lemon, an alternative humor magazine, while Lampoon staffers licked their wounds...
...setting is Kindle County, the imaginary Midwestern tract that also provided the Rust Belt backdrop for Turow's first two best-selling novels, Presumed Innocent (1987) and The Burden of Proof (1990). The moral climate remains much the same as in the earlier books: inducements to lie, cheat, steal, even kill, proliferate, while those in the legal profession -- unsworn priests of the social order -- struggle to sift right from wrong and to keep themselves, if possible, uncorrupted...