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...would tolerate the practice of copying ISBNs if it did not disrupt other patrons. “We know that this is going to happen. We’re not going to invite you in to do it,” Powell said, adding that the Coop would not prevent CrimsonReading employees from “coming in when it’s not busy and not bothering anyone about it.” The parties have reached the detente even though CrimsonReading has improved and expanded their ISBN-copying techniques. The company has purchased a bar code scanner...
...prevent future instances of plagiarism, Elsevier will require all of its editors to join the Committee on Publication Ethics, a forum that advises editors on issues of integrity. The initiative will be formally announced next week, according to the publisher’s director of relations Shira D. Tabachnikoff...
...members’ lives. Simple solutions to our military’s current problems, such as better lubricant oil and the HK416, have the potential not only to make our soldiers safer and more effective, but even save us money in the long run. Although military technology will never prevent the loss of life entirely, purchasing better equipment could make it more likely that any future wartime sacrifice would be paid in dollars and cents instead of American blood...
...Agricole. By tipping its hand, Mistral notes, BNP may be signaling to rivals now mobilizing in the wake of the debacle that it's about to launch a bid it had contemplated even before the Kerviel affair. Meanwhile, comments by French officials indicating the government would step in and prevent foreign "predators" from exploiting the Société Générale fiasco drew fire from European Union authorities. Mistral suggests that BNP's shot across the bow was a boon for the government: "by signaling to rivals abroad that French banks are already on the case...
...most troubling thing about the ECDC study was the 75% resistance rate found in Norway. Like doctors elsewhere in Western Europe - and in the U.S. and Canada - Norwegians don't routinely prescribe Tamiflu to their patients. (Tamiflu is not a flu vaccine, but a post-exposure treatment that helps prevent the virus from spreading within the body, and reduces symptoms.) They just tell them to get some rest and drink plenty of fluids. It's a bit of a mystery, then, why so many of Norway's samples are drug-resistant. In theory, viruses should develop resistance to drugs...