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...part of a crackdown on China's alleged theft of U.S. nuclear secrets, the FBI found that Lee, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, had downloaded classified information to his home computer. Lacking any evidence that those secrets were leaked to any foreign country, the FBI charged Lee with 59 counts of mishandling classified information--not quite espionage, but still punishable with a life sentence. Government prosecutors successfully argued that Lee should not be set free on bail before trial, since he represented a "a clear and present danger to the security of the United States." And so Lee spent...
...Bicycle theft is one of Harvard and Cambridge's most common crimes...
...photo array does not positively identify a suspect in the Sailing Center theft, but the detectives remain hopeful as they head back to the station...
...straight-to-video shelf, there's been a profound lack of screwed-up teen heartthrobs. But BRAD RENFRO, 18, appears ready to step up. Last week Renfro, who made his debut in The Client in 1994 and has since starred in Sleepers and Apt Pupil, was charged with grand theft after he and an accomplice allegedly tried to steal a 45-ft. yacht from a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., marina. They might have got away with it had they only untied the dock lines. Police are investigating whether the duo was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, a touchy subject...
...three banks in Cali and blew up a section of coastal highway the day before Clinton arrived, while students protesting the US aid occupied a building in the capital, Bogota. Most of the violence in the country - where the murder rate is said to be higher than the auto theft rate - is far from the relatively tranquil resort town of Cartagena, U.S. officials said reassuringly. But you can never been too careful in a country overrun by narcoterrorists: Colombia deployed 5,000 soldiers and police to protect the presidents, assisted by some 200-400 American security agents. A good thing...