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This past fall, the instructors in Sociology 189, “Law and Social Movements,” used Turnitin.com to scan students’ work as part of a plagiarism-detection pilot program run by Harvard’s Instructional Computing Group (ICG). The nine-year-old Web site, which added an admissions-essay service in 2004, has screened 27,000 admissions essays and found 11 percent to contain at least one-quarter of un-original material, according to The Wall Street Journal...
...Council, who is regarded by diplomats in Western capitals as a moderate. The two spoke at the country's main nuclear complex Natanz, in central Iran, and Larijani said Iran had begun injecting gas into centrifuges. Perhaps deliberately vague, neither official specified whether Tehran was running gas in the pilot plant at Natanz or a more expansive plant containing at least 3,000 centrifuges. The head of Iran's atomic energy organization, Reza Aghazadeh, added to the confusion on Tuesday, claiming that Iran planned to install 50,000 centrifuges in an interview with the semi-official ISNA new agency. Western...
...timing. Back in January, Iranian officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was installing 3,000 centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility at Natanz, and would soon begin feeding uranium gas into them. Ahmadinejad had been expected to boast of this expansion from a 328-centrifuge pilot operation last Feb. 11, as Iran celebrated the 28th anniversary of its revolution...
...Eagles, the 300-member Escuadron 201. The Eagles were an all-Mexican expeditionary force, organized after Mexico declared war on the Axis powers, which trained in the U.S. and then flew combat missions in the Philippines. Only five members of the squadron are still alive and one of them, pilot Reynaldo Perez Gallardo, nicknamed "Pancho Pistolar" after a Disney character, tells his story on the website. For critics of Ken Burns' latest effort, the point is that stories such as those of Gallardo should become part of the national memory when America honors its Greatest Generation...
...agree with Wiggin, then former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's legendary ability to pilot us past market jitters and avert major economic dislocations is something not to be praised but to be condemned. Among the doom crowd, Greenspan's decision to slash interest rates as the stock market plummeted in 2001, which fueled the last leg of the real estate boom, is seen as his gravest error. Despite his raising rates since then, Greenspan's successor Ben Bernanke is if anything even more reviled. His sin was committed in 2002 when, as a member of the Federal Reserve Board...