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...After the main course, dessert time would reward us with a predictable pattern of entertaining facial expressions. Ingestion was immediately followed by 1) the grimacing pucker, 2) the horrified, double take “stare” at the item, 3) a confused period of closer inspection and finally 4) total disgust as the plate was slid to the opposite end of the table. Some indignant recipients brought their findings to the cafeteria staff (the Adams House “pink” lady). Most amazing was how many people eagerly proceeded to polish off the rest of the dessert...
...Smart clothing may only change its pattern once at a large party in response to the other smart clothing at the same party. This is to prevent infinite visual-fashion feedback loops that could cause vomiting or epilepsy...
...that Jeffords has upset the fragile ecology of the tundra, the Bush administration needs to lead itself to a period of introspection. There's a fatal pattern at work, and the election of 2002 is approaching at the speed of light. Unless the Bush people find a way to reverse an ancient pattern of complacent Republican navigation - the habit of running aground on the rocks of their own stupidity - then 2002 is going to be a disaster for them...
...they have deep problems to address in the long-term, but for now the focus is on simply preventing the escalation into a civil war that breaks up the country. The pattern has been established by the previous offensive. The rebels retreat, either into the mountains or into Kosovo. And then they resurface in a couple of weeks and launch new attacks. So the problems are far from over, but so far the government is holding out and they've managed to avoid an outbreak of ethnic violence in the major towns and cities...
COPY CAUGHT Last week Louis Bloomfield, a physics professor at the University of Virginia, ran a simple pattern-matching program on his students' term papers to check for instances of plagiarism. He told his computer to look for papers that had blocks of six or more words in a row in common. It found a lot more than that: 122 of his students are now up on charges that they copied their work; and at U.Va., famous for its honor code, that means expulsion. The real culprit? Bloomfield blames e-mail for the cheating epidemic, which makes it easier...