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...China raised interest rates for the second time in two months, marking the first time in 17 years that the government had stacked rate increases on top of each other so quickly. Beijing also announced that banks would have to maintain higher reserves-an effort to curb bank lending that is fueling China's 10% annual GDP growth. "People don't think the train is off the tracks yet," the CASS economist told TIME, "but it's going about as fast...
...given how easy it is to pluck a term paper off the Web, it's hard to argue against using Turnitin to curb academic dishonesty. That's why some schools, including McLean, rely on both honor codes and plagiarism-detection software to keep students on the up-and-up--without seeing these methods as being at odds with each other. The Air Force Academy, which expelled 15 first-year cadets this month for cheating, takes great pride in its honor code but also checks for plagiarism. Says Joey Smith, 22, chairman of the cadets' honor committee: "It's the whole...
After the Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health advised the film industry to curb on-screen smoking, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced that it will more seriously consider smoking in its ratings decisions...
...that Washington "accept that friends can think differently." He then scolded America for not accepting the Kyoto accords on global warming. He also called for greater European cooperation, and for a new trans-Mediterranean partnership to speed economic development in Africa countries, which he saw as important to help curb immigration into Europe...
...Iranians on the record, at the ministerial level, that they are making commitments to the Iraqis to help solve their problems." Washington hopes that if Iran makes security commitments to Iraq's government and the governments of the region, the onus will be on Tehran to curb its covert meddling and make a positive contribution. Such engagement is premised less on the idea that more radical elements in Iran's leadership will change their ways than on the prospects for a more pragmatic outlook in Tehran. "It's not a matter of looking for moderates in Iran," Rice said recently...