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...Consumer Protection Identity Theft Resource Center www.idtheftcenter.org A surge of identity-theft crimes in recent months makes this a must-read for consumers looking for tips on how to avoid trouble and what to do if the worst happens (see Victim Guides, under Victim Resources). There are tips for businesses too. Run by a San Diego-based nonprofit organization of the same name...
...from the fact that 10 years earlier, a different version of the picture--there are four--had been nabbed from another Norwegian museum. On the one hand, it was a comfort that that version was returned unharmed. On the other, nobody seems to have learned anything from the first theft. Museum security was still utterly insufficient, in part because gallery officials depended on the fantasy that no one would steal such a famous painting. And you wonder why that poor little guy is always screaming...
...first Scream heist is the main concern of The Rescue Artist (HarperCollins; 270 pages), an entertaining account of the eternal struggle between high art and low cunning. Along the way, it's also a wider look at the world of art theft, a place where, to put it mildly, curatorial standards are not maintained. Gainsboroughs are manhandled by drug dealers; Vermeers are jammed into car trunks like Mafia stool pigeons. One set of thieves decided that a large Henry Moore bronze, King and Queen, was too heavy to move, so they took out a chainsaw and cut off the heads...
Just six months before the 1994 Scream theft, Hill had cracked the biggest art case in ages, the 1986 break-in at Russborough House near Dublin in which robbers made off with 11 pictures, including a precious Vermeer. In one of many cloak-and-dagger games the book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes...
Given such success, it may seem ludicrous to ask, Can China innovate? The country produces four times as many engineers as the U.S., and its spending on basic R&D is accelerating smartly. What's to stop innovation from breaking out all over? Skeptics have a ready answer: theft of intellectual property. Innovation depends on the value of ideas being protected, so the entrepreneur with a technological breakthrough reaps the rewards--not "six guys down the street who've stolen it," says Jim Hemerling, senior vice president of Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai. In the past two years, companies from...