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However, MIT's scandal ended even more abruptly last week, as it announced the suspected cheating was actual an error made by someone entering grades into a computer...
...grade-changing incident was actually just an inadvertent error made by a person authorized to enter grades, according to a statement by Professor Harvey Lodish in a press release from the MIT News Office...
...this case, there was a slip-up in the use of the mouse and only the column of names was sorted, resulting in grades being assigned to the wrong people. The error raised the grades of two students and lowered the grades of 20 students," it said...
...them by reason of mental powers and self-awareness. It seems to be all right to boil lobsters, by the way, since they have no brain cortex or its equivalent. Wise's argument seems to denigrate the divinity of mankind, and perhaps of all creation -- an unnecessary public relations error, I would argue, and perhaps a massive missing of the central point: a holiness and beauty in the world that makes stewardship the only civilized behavior. "But I am a lawyer," Wise tells me, "not a poet or theologian...
DIED. KARSTEN SOLHEIM, 88, golf-club king who brought heel-toe balance to his popular ping putters and revolutionary perimeter weighting to his irons, which increased the sweet spot and allowed more room for error; in Phoenix, Ariz. An engineer, Solheim played his first golf game at age 42 and began tinkering with club designs to improve his handicap...