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...find both the responses of Little Brown and their author Kaayva [sic] Viswanathan deeply troubling and disingenuous. Ms. Viswanathan's claim that similarities in her phrasing were 'unconscious' or 'unintentional' is suspect. We have documented more than forty passages from Kaavya Viswanathan's recent publication 'How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' that contain identical language and/or common scene or dialogue structure from Megan McCafferty's first two books, 'Sloppy Firsts' and 'Second Helpings.' This extensive taking from Ms. McCafferty's books is nothing less than an act of literary identity theft...
...display of youthful innocence or an unconscious or unintentional act. We are extremely proud of Megan McCafferty's success to date with 400,000 copies of her books in print and her most recent book CHARMED THIRDS (4/11/06) already climbing the bestseller lists. We will be supporting our author by seeking an amicable and timely resolution to this situation...
...boys admitted to having carried a gun or a knife or been in at least one physical fight in the previous year. But the girls were not far behind, at 25%. And when the violence is girl-on-girl, it can get especially ugly. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, co-author of Sugar & Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence and professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health, meets with teachers and administrators around the country and is taken aback by what she hears. "Principals talk about not only the increased number of girl...
...other cells don’t have—they have both a K4 and K27 signature, which was surprising because we thought they were mutually exclusive,” said Bradley E. Bernstein, assistant professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and the lead author of the study. Since the master regulatory genes near the simultaneous K4 and K27 states are by and large silent, it appears that K27 dominates K4 when both are simultaneously present. However, the presence of K4 indicates that these genes may later be activated. “For genes, this...
...without citing it or quoting it, that might not be copyright infringement because I wouldn’t necessarily need permission to use it,” Lessig said. “But since I’m asserting that I am, in fact, the author of that sentence, that would be plagiarism...