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...Many [passages] include identical phrasing, establish primary characters, and contain shared plot developments...It is understandably difficult for us to accept that Ms. Viswanathan’s plagiarism was ‘unintentional and unconscious,’ as she has claimed,” Pulcini wrote in an e-mail late last night...
...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...
Answer: All these items contain some petroleum-derived ingredients...
...Business School (HBS). The stairwells smell like rotting metal and the concrete steps are worn. American flags and Easter baskets adorn the scratched red and blue doors. Bicycles and television buzz overflow into the landings. Inside the apartments there is wall-to-wall carpeting, a couch, a television. Some contain two stories and many open onto private decks. In 1995, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) identified the apartments as “troubled” property in need of repairs to remain viable. Aware that the apartments needed resources for extensive renovation—and that...
Video games rated “M” for mature audiences contain sexual content, drug references, and strong language not labeled on the box, according to a recent study by Kimberly M. Thompson, an associate professor of risk analysis and decision science at the Harvard School of Public Health. Thompson has previously completed studies analyzing the content of video games rated “E” for everyone and “T” for teen. Those studies found much higher levels of violence than advertised on the video game box. She has also founded KidsRisk...