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...patch are placing odds on whether your first tobacco-free 24 hours will really last forever. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center studied 200 smokers who buttressed their "quit day" by starting on a nicotine patch program. Those who broke down and cheated that first day were "10 times more likely to be smoking" in the long run, said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Westman of Durham, N.C. "This finding contradicts the common idea that people can cheat, even just a little, and still quit smoking." So where was the supposed satisfaction...
...good looking," the President says; "let me buy one." The inmate's reply is hardly Marxist: "Ten soles" ($4). He hands the hat through the bars, and Fujimori puts it on. "Pay the man," he tells an aide. "I don't want him to think I'm a cheat...
...Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set.) These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
Without an honor code, Harvard remains an institution overtly suspicious of its students. Proctored exams, a practice that would disappear with an honor code, insult the very integrity we are meant to have. The proctors prowl up and down the aisles with the suspicion that we might cheat. Thus, during exams, students are reduced to "potential cheaters" and not considered mature individuals who have gathered to learn. Only one person can go to the bathroom at a time during an exam at Harvard. What kind of trust does this imply the University has in its students? Harvard applicants are accepted...
Having an honor code does not mean that people who were previously inclined to cheat will not; what it means instead is that whether to live morally becomes a choice; a sense of responsibility is incurred--both to oneself and to others; and the idea triumphs that we should do what we know or think is right because it's right and not because we have to. There will be few proctors in the real world; therefore, moral choices must ultimately come from within...