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...petty theft, too, Cambridge was named in recent years the bike theft capital of the United States...
...case, the first time either academy has had a student charged with murder, marked the latest trouble for the nation's military academies, which have been racked by cheating, sex and car-theft scandals in recent years. But academy officials note defensively that the killing took place months before Graham and Zamora learned, in June, that they would be attending their schools starting in July...
...obliterate. Detectives sift the residue for clues, a job that would be far easier if microscopic chemical agents called taggants were present at the scene. Taggants are like fingerprints or bar codes. Mixed with gunpowder and other explosive agents, they can identify the manufacturer, the point of sale or theft, and provide other useful information. They were invented by a Minnesota chemist in 1973 and for the past 11 years their mandatory use in Switzerland has helped Swiss police solve more than 500 explosives cases. But adding taggants to black and smokeless gunpowder in the U.S.--the materials common...
...series of break-ins was reported last week at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, resulting in the theft of several Lampoon artifacts including brass dishes, a wolf pelt, a bottle of 1990 Chenin Anjou and an autographed copy of The Poetry of Leonard Nimoy...
...Navy, the timing of the arrests could not be worse. The service is reeling from the fallout of the Tailhook sexual harassment scandal; a succession of cheating, drug-dealing and car-theft scandals at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; and the May 16 suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence...