Word: counterfeiting
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...Tuesday, arrested students were arraigned in court. Though the charges varied, they were mostly misdemeanors--including violation of alcohol statutes, possession of counterfeit identification and buying alcohol for a minor, according to Cellucci...
...organization called the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has mounted a fierce campaign of lobbying against an amendment to an agriculture spending bill currently before the Senate that would allow Americans to import prescription drugs from Mexico and Canada. Relaxing restrictions would lead to the import of killer counterfeit drugs, the PhRMA warns in a full-page ad in Wednesday's Washington Post. Not only that, "the importation of prescription drugs also means spoiled, adulterated, impotent or subpotent medicines making their way into American medicine cabinets." But critics believe they're simply covering up for price-gouging, and have...
...with campus-based instruction. But what is distressing is the persistent indictment of distance education by skeptical faculty. In 1998, 1,680 institutions enrolled 1.6 million students in 54,000 distance courses, and an ever increasing proportion are online. To refer to this burgeoning phenomenon as naive and as counterfeit education or to declare that it is not as good as in-person education implies that what occurs in classrooms is the model to be emulated. This attitude prompts me to ask, Who is naive about how a digitized society will access learning? MICHAEL BEAUDOIN Professor of Education University...
...speed, Saylor's proposal became the talk of the highest ivory towers. And the reactions were mostly of the unpublishable kind. "Saylor's naivete is breathtaking," says David Noble, a history professor at Toronto's York University and a sharp critic of distance learning. "It's the quintessence of counterfeit education." Adds Carole Fungaroli, an English professor at Georgetown: "It's the same as sex on the Internet. You can get it online, but it's not as good as in person...
...temporarily mislaid a more important word: dignity. We talk about our "right to privacy," but we don't really mean it. This broken-down, ramshackle idea falls apart the moment you blow on it. Privacy to commit murder? To beat a wife or child? To abuse an animal? To counterfeit money? To be insane, refuse treatment and suffer never-endingly? Privacy is no absolute right; it is a nice little luxury when we can get it. Dignity is a necessity to fight for. And come 2025, life will be better: not because of the technology revolution but because...