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...leave academic dishonesty as a cat-and-mouse game between students who copy paragraphs from the internet and professors who Google odd phrases hoping to catch cheating students? I have a better solution: reduce the pressure on students and you’ll reduce their desperation and likelihood to plagiarize...
...Judging from the meeting today I think the likelihood of a no confidence vote is high,” Sociology Department Chair Mary C. Waters, who criticized Summers at the meeting, wrote in a later e-mail...
...every three people will have more than three months when they cannot work because of illness or injury—most people underestimate that likelihood,” she said...
...women who were given a supply of emergency contraception to keep at home, researchers found that they were no more likely to have unprotected sex than those without unrestricted access to the drug. Other studies have shown that access to the drug did not increase teenagers’ likelihood to engage in promiscuous sex. But, regardless, the role of the FDA is to approve drugs for over-the-counter sale based solely on the medical evidence of their safety and effectiveness; to make medical—not moral—decisions. Again refusing to approve a medically safe Plan...
...would say the likelihood, from the evidence we have so far, that a bomb would go off in Cambridge is very, very slim. And since the story was about Boston rather than Cambridge, I would say that is an additional reason to assume it would not happen here,” he said...