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...risk of coronary heart disease. The study, which tracked the health of more than 82,000 women, showed that cutting back on white bread and pasta--as advocated by the South Beach diet--doesn't boost chances of a heart attack. "The diet is healthy," says study co-author Frank...
...without a face" for his ability to elude photographers during most of his 34-year reign over the foreign-intelligence division of the Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police; in Berlin. Rumored to be the model for John le Carr's shadowy Karla (a suggestion the author has denied), Wolf placed his 4,000 spies in such enemy territory as NATO headquarters, cannily converted West German agents to his team, and famously touted the "Romeo method"--the wooing of lonely government secretaries to gain access to confidential files. Among his best-known feats: placing an operative in the inner...
...paste” plagiarism from the Internet at some point during their college career. TurnItIn.com is already used extensively by high schools and works by comparing submitted material to a vast database culled from the Internet, previously submitted student work, and periodicals and journals, to determine if the author has cheated. If the program works well, it is a long-needed remedy to the current luck-of-the-draw system in which getting caught for or accused of plagiarism depends largely on the reading breadth and vigilance of a Teaching Fellow (TF); even a single TF can apply different standards...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
...Huckabees,” which may or may not be a bad thing depending on how you feel about his recent tendency to ignore his natural talent.Emma Thompson, however, completely saves the film at some of its worst moments. She throws herself into a stereotype—a dark author with writer’s block, who duses phrases like “fantastically depressing”—and plays her character as a modern, witty Virginia Woolf. It’s fascinating, too, to watch her face off against Queen Latifah, who plays her assistant in some...