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Beyond the nebulous expectation that the policy would heighten student integrity, the format of a Harvard honor code—should one ever come to pass—remains decidedly unclear...
...considered a national hero. In a new 600-page biography titled Kapuscinski Non-Fiction, the Polish journalist Artur Domoslawski says Kapuscinski repeatedly crossed the boundary between reporting and fiction writing during his career, claiming to have witnessed events where he hadn't actually been present and inventing images to heighten the dramatic effect of his stories. (See the top 10 fiction books...
Merely to attempt such a maneuver would draw Republicans’ profound resistance and only heighten partisanship in the beltway. But if Obama maintains any aspirations of passing the significant portions of his agenda, what alternative does he have...
...face detection is relatively simple, even if the math involved can be complex. Most people have two eyes, eyebrows, a nose and lips - and an algorithm can be trained to look for those common features, or more specifically, their shadows. (For instance, when you take a normal image and heighten the contrast, eye sockets can look like two dark circles.) But even if face detection seems pretty straightforward, the execution isn't always smooth. (See the 50 best inventions...
Awareness will also help victims' parents overcome the stigma attached to having a child die this way. People frequently confuse the game with erotic asphyxiation, the sexual practice thought to heighten an orgasm. And they frequently assume that victims suffer from psychiatric conditions like depression. In fact, victims tend to be high-achieving students at school, active in sports and well-behaved, according to doctors and some victims' parents. "They aren't playing this game for sexual gratification," Field says. "It's to get a high without taking drugs." (Read "How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century...