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...intent upon developing its own special guidelines and judicial procedures concerning academic dishonesty. The Internet now has hundreds of sites where teachers, employers, and your significant other can check what has been cited or appropriated from millions of other sites. Plagiarism is, at least as feared as the avian flu. But recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education remind us that even many professors do not really understand plagiarism, let alone their students...
...works for an entire Harvard community evacuation. In the past week, members of the University’s Incident Support Team—which is comprised of Wrinn, the director of University Health Services, and the HUPD chief—have met to discuss a perhaps more likely scenario: avian influenza. The group met with other emergency management teams from across the University to draft a pandemic emergency plan, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...self-referential—a musical about itself.A revival of this show has also arrived on Broadway, having opened at the beginning of October. Yet unlike the “Company” revival, “A Chorus Line” has preserved its retro sensibility. Director Bob Avian has banked on the show’s inherent gravitas—the poignancy of the meat-market image of dancers lined up for directorial scrutiny—to transcend time and place.Closer to home, the upcoming HRDC production of “A Chorus Line” is slated...
...determine the right approach for contingency,” Certon said yesterday. “We are interested in getting public strategies and non-pharmaceutical approaches that people could try while dealing with the flu.” The current pandemic threat results from an outbreak of avian influenza in Europe and in Asia. Certon said that these basic methods of contagion control were necessary because they may be the only option. “We may very well find ourselves in a situation where that’s all we’ve got for a period of time...
...diarrhea is a major killer in developing countries, in the rich world it is usually no more than an irritant. So developed nations channel health-care funds into areas perceived as presenting greater risks. Antiviral drugs are purchased and vaccines are ordered to guard against the potential threat from avian influenza instead of getting packages of rehydration solution costing just 6? a liter to those at risk of dying from diarrhea elsewhere. But far more children die from diarrhea every day than have ever died from avian...