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...Cheating isn't epidemic - the Education Ministry has disqualified only 392 students so far this year - but it is an outgrowth of a bigger problem: the severe shortage of university places. Vietnam's higher-education system hasn't expanded fast enough to meet the demand from students eager to get ahead in Asia's second fastest-growing economy (after China). Nguyen Thu Phuong, 18, studied for more than a year for the exams, and was poring over a few last-minute math equations on a bench shortly before testing began. Her mother, anxiously fanning the girl as she studied, once...
...outgrowth of the published, broadcast and webcast images is that a Virginia Tech professor saw what he believed were similarities between one of Cho's photographs and the South Korean movie Oldboy, by the director Chan-wook Park, about a man who seeks vengeance on the man who kept him unjustly imprisoned for 15 years. Cho photographed himself flourishing a hammer, the movie 's trademark weapon, in a pose that the professor, Paul Harris, said resembled one from the film. Another possible outgrowth of the media storm is that, according to the Korea Herald newspaper, Cho's parents are currently...
...Imus crossed a line, boorishly, creepily, paleolithically. But where is that line nowadays? In a way, the question is an outgrowth of something healthy in our society: the assumption that there is a diverse audience that is willing to talk about previously taboo social distinctions more openly, frankly and daringly than before. It used to be assumed that people were free to joke about their own kind (with some license for black comedians to talk about how white people dance). Crossing those lines was the province of the occasional "socially conscious artist," like Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce...
...build a robotic Pony Express to the International Space Station (ISS), is pouring his own millions into a ship for galactic travelers at his factory south of Los Angeles. Robert Bigelow, founder of Budget Suites of America, already has a small-scale, inflatable space station--hotel in orbit, an outgrowth of his curiosity about UFOs. New Mexico wants to become the Cape Canaveral of space tourism, but six other proposed spaceports across the country are vying for business too. There's even an Orbital Outfitters store to provide space suits for civilians--whether portly or petite...
...growth of channeling is a part of the larger New Age movement, an apparent outgrowth of the counterculture of the 1960s. An amorphous amalgam of mystical groups that take a "holistic" approach to everything from business to gardening, the movement adds an overlay of Eastern mysticism to the '60s-era rejection of materialism and the Establishment. Through a variety of techniques that may include meditation, yoga, hypnosis and fealty to a guru, the movement blissfully hopes for a new age of spiritual and social harmony...