Word: examing
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Freudian Slip. In Dallas, on a final exam, a Southern Methodist University coed misspelled a word but otherwise correctly identified the fifth precept of Buddhism: "Do not be unchased...
...with an ulcer, was not flouting hospital rules. As one of 24 patients in St. Mary's 25-bed self-care unit, he was well within them. For over six months the new unit had been taking in patients whose needs are not urgent: observation, a routine physical exam, daily physical therapy, post-operative recuperation. Normally, the patients would have been confined to a bed, wakened regularly each morning, prodded unnecessarily with a thermometer, served lukewarm meals. In the self-care unit, they take their own medicine and their own baths, eat in a cafeteria that...
...grand jury investigation disrobed seasoned ghosts. Among them: Morris Needleman, 52, assistant principal of a Brooklyn elementary school, and Joseph Lasky, 72, who advertised himself as a former instructor at New York University. Slickest of all: debonair Freelance Writer James Butterly, who is charged with taking an exam in adolescent psychology for a dullard student at Columbia's Teachers College. Though Butterly is a grey-haired ghost of 54 and his client was 23, officials suspected nothing...
Such indifference is nothing new. Though the law limits Hogan to prosecuting offenses committed in the past two years, he believes that crooked thesis-writing and exam-taking has flourished for at least two decades. Nor is it limited to New York. "It is fair to conclude," says Hogan, "that the practice is widespread in the country...
Steve was so bright that high school proved a frustrating experience. Though he passed a final geometry exam with an A only three weeks after entering the course, and had read textbooks for the sophomore year before he entered it, school authorities refused to move him along faster than other students. "The school just wasn't going along with what I intended to do," he says. "I could see I was accomplishing more on my own, so I quit." He now studies advanced math and physics, takes a University of California correspondence course that will eventually...