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...TIME: So if there?s no argument that the system is broken, why use your energies to start...
Kinsley made an excellent argument in support of Jones. We should consider the many competent people who have sought further graduate study in order to enhance their capability to do a job, only to find that they're unemployable because of an excess of documented qualification. They're often not wanted because of a perceived threat to those under whom they would work. For every Marilee Jones, there's another person who has been passed over because she is considered overqualified...
Aside from the guilty-until-proved-innocent argument, many students are apoplectic that a for-profit entity--which charges 87˘ per student per year for plagiarism detection--is making money off their homework. As soon as a paper is vetted for cut- and-paste plagiarism, it joins a database against which every new submission will be compared. Thus, argues a recent Op-Ed in the Texas A&M newspaper, the company should have to pay to use these works, "without which their service would be crippled." Concerns about intellectual-property rights as well as cost led the University of Kansas...
...reason I wrote the book," he begins, "is that I've tried for years to tell the story of the climate crisis, and it has taken far too long to get through. When the best evidence is compiled and there's no longer room for dragging out a pointless argument, we're raised as Americans to believe our democracy is going to respond. But it hasn't responded. We're still not doing anything. So I started thinking, What's going on here?" While Gore was mulling that, another test of American democracy presented itself-the walk...
...founders has gone awry-how the American marketplace of ideas has gradually devolved into a home-shopping network of 30-second ads and mall-tested phrases, a huckster's paradise that sells simulated participation to a public that has all but lost the ability to engage. Gore builds his argument from deep drafts of political and social history and trenchant bits of information theory, media criticism, computer science and neurobiology, and reading him is by turns exhausting and exhilarating. One moment he is lecturing you about something you think you know pretty well, and the next moment he's making...