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Retail sales may be sluggish this holiday season, but aside from theft, there's at last one ultra-cheap way to put more presents under the tree. Organizers behind the massive online freebie network known as Freecycle.org say that they have noticed a surge in new users looking for hand-me-downs and raw materials being given away on the nonprofit site, which has more than 6 million members around the globe. "People used to ask others in the network for luxury items," such as laptops and other high-tech gadgets, says Michelle Martinez, a Freecycle volunteer who oversees...
...compelling vision: China as a high-tech powerhouse. But making it come true will take years, and there are major obstacles. Idea theft is the biggest. Though the country has made progress in strengthening intellectual-property rights over the past several years, rampant piracy of software, music and other IP remains a huge issue. "People with the ideas have to be protected," says Rosen, the New York City economic consultant. "They've moved on this because they know without it a high-tech China remains a dream...
...cash were taken off the wall. The thief also reportedly stole three Lenovo laptops, each valued at $2000 or more. The police log states that officers conducted a field interview of an individual involved. HUPD arrested the individual in the course of its investigation, but not specifically for the theft. HUPD Spokesman Steven G. Catalano said that the man had access to the room in which the stolen items were kept. Detectives took the man into custody because of an outstanding warrant for a different incident. Catalano did not disclose the reason for that warrant, and Law School officials declined...
...retired civil servant who lives with his wife in an upscale development in the city's southwest. "Every morning when I get up, my main worry is water," his wife Kusum says. Near the entrance to their flat, they keep a 265-gal. storage tank--locked to prevent theft. The couple are awake by 6:30 a.m. to ensure that the municipal supply is running, and they use an ultraviolet filter to purify water intended for drinking or cooking because contamination is constant...
...Kozlowski recently complained that the technically legal actions of executives who profited as Wall Street burned in the past few months were far more damaging and reprehensible than his own theft. Perhaps he’s right; there are some fallen Wall Street executives who ought to join him in jail. They, like he, ought to be made into memorable examples, serving out full terms for their highly destructive crimes...