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...impossible, as anyone with a passing familiarity with the region's weather knows; anyway, it never gets that hot in Manila, not even close. It might seem a small point, but a book that seeks to speak with authority about the Philippines unnecessarily handicaps itself with a sloppy factual error in the first paragraph...
...says a Geneva-based diplomat. It's also a procedure that's hard to cover up?although South Korea appears to have tried. The Ministry of Science and Technology says it reported the experiment to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1983, but its report had a significant error. South Korea told the IAEA its scientists had dissolved fuel from a fresh rod, not a spent one. Plutonium cannot be extracted from a fresh uranium fuel rod. The IAEA had no reason to be alarmed until 1997, when an inspection of the facility by the IAEA turned up traces...
...said the error was “impossible for us to detect,” because the copied passage was properly footnoted, and Norton found the footnotes to be accurate. Ogletree informed his Norton editor as soon as he discovered the missing attribution, Brockett said...
...bottom line remains that had a Harvard student committed such a grievous error, intentionally or not, the College would likely turn a deaf ear to any excuses—particularly any that involve an over-reliance on paid assistants to do their research and writing for them. If Harvard is not willing to hold its Faculty to the same high scholarly standards as it does its students, then perhaps it should rethink its undergraduate plagiarism policy and do away with the charade of irreproachable academic integrity...
...Trevor Graham, who sent in a syringe of human growth hormone to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, saying he hoped to save the sport for clean athletes.) Even when Americans weren't supposed to win, they won, like Paul Hamm, the gold-medal gymnast who prospered by a judging error. Gifts from judges don't tend to win hyperpowers many friends...