Word: detective
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...They're smart to do so, because, in some ways, auditing is helping to promote the very practices it purports to detect. In The China Price, Alexandra Harney describes how Chinese suppliers set up "five-star factories" whose model working conditions impress auditors, while also creating "shadow" factories to meet actual order deadlines. With a minimum of paperwork or safety codes, staffed by migrant workers who often put in 12-hour days seven days a week, these shadow factories are unregulated, but common. The craze for auditing has, paradoxically, led factory owners to create such factories. It also sops...
...thing about Bush’s celebrated political Teflon is that it rarely involves the candidate alone; rather, a staff of loyal vassals works—and works hard—to subtly detect, derail and discredit all threats, like dogs wandering a minefield...
...versions of yourself to lose weight, cuter versions of yourself to gain confidence, or older versions to start putting money away for the future (that last one is being studied at Stanford now). "The most stunning part is how subtle the manipulations are and how difficult they are to detect," says Bailenson, "but how much it affects real life later...
...more follicles a woman has, the better her chances of conceiving - and the higher her levels of AMH. Currently, IVF clinics rely on an ultrasound to count follicles, but these images can be clouded by intestinal tissue, or, in some cases, they may not be powerful enough to detect every remaining follicle...
...program used by colleges to find illicit reproductions in students’ papers, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Katherine J. Povejsil, iParadigms’ vice president of marketing, said that CrossCheck identifies matching passages and provides the full text articles . “Our service cannot detect plagiarism,” Povejsil said. “All our service can do is highlight passages for a potential match. Then it is up to a skilled editor to look at that information and ask, ‘What does this mean?’” Povejsil says...