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...over the time the inspector from the bureau of weights and measures wouldn't let her sell her extra peaches at the farmers' market because she didn't have a regulation scale. "I had this old postal scale, you know, which was working fine. I wasn't trying to cheat anybody or anything," she says. "But he told me I had to go, and I couldn't come back until I had the right kind of scale...
This arrangement has been complicated by the influx of tens of thousands of women into the armed forces since the early 1980s. Many married service members have chosen to cheat with one another instead of using prostitutes. Linda Bird Francke notes in her new book, Ground Zero, that 64% of the Air Force personnel responding to a Roper Poll of Gulf War units reported sexual activity in their squads. Not that it bothered them: 77% of the Roper respondents said it had little or no effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization...
However, proctoring exams is not always easy. The job often entails responding to students who become ill or decide to cheat...
Students in CS 50 are repeatedly told at the start of the course that copying solutions is not allowed. But the existence of the "cheat detector" is not announced until after the third assignment, Shelat said...
DIED. CAROL BOTWIN, 68, sexologist author and columnist; of cancer; in New York City. An infidelity expert, Botwin bared eye-popping findings that 60% to 75% of married men cheat at least once and 40% of wed women seek an extramarital relationship...