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...survey of more than 1,000 faculty members at 21 schools reported that over a two-year period, a third ignored cheating when they saw it in their classes. When policies seem harsh or are confusing, professors don’t want to bother. Similarly, students may be reluctant to report their fellow students for what they may consider minor infractions—few would want their roommate expelled for doing a problem set with a friend...
...friend Raj has always been a classic Type A personality. He becomes restless anytime he has to wait; he hollers at other drivers in traffic; he often doesn't bother to sit down when he eats. He is also hypertensive, with a blood pressure of 150/90 at age 34. This past week I decided to share with him the results of a new study presented at this year's American Heart Association meeting. Although he always knew his lifestyle wasn't healthy, he thought it wouldn't affect him much--or at least that his relative youth would protect...
...newly enhanced facility, he began musing on the idea of a fantasy film. "I thought, Nobody seems to be making those anymore," says Jackson. "Fran kept saying Lord of the Rings was the prototype [for fantasy], and if we can't think of something better, we shouldn't bother. Eventually we came up with the obvious question: What's happening with Lord of the Rings? Why don't we try doing that...
...caustic torments terrorize his mild student?and gradually cause Jian to question the career that has been set before him, the mentor he thought he knew and the world in which he lives. He's not the only one. While Jian sinks into depression, wondering whether he should bother sitting for his exams and doom himself to a barren life "as a clerk in a workshop", news of a student gathering in Beijing arrives through BBC radio broadcasts and Meimei's letters from the restive capital. Jian wants to stay out of it, but in the spring of 1989 that...
Moore's law holds that computers will continually get faster, but there's no corollary that says users will bother to buy them. Consumers no longer feel the need to upgrade to the latest hardware every time Intel unveils a speedier microprocessor or Microsoft releases a heftier version of Windows. According to the consumer technology-research firm Odyssey, home users nowadays are perfectly willing to go almost five years between PC purchases. Meanwhile, the computer industry, mired in its worst-ever sales slump, is desperate to dream up a compelling innovation that will put the forced back in forced obsolescence...