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...plagiarism. “It’s a tool to help students understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it,” Kay said. She added that the company’s Web site “can help educate students and protect them from having their own work plagiarized by others...
...Proposition 90, says Chris McKenzie, executive director of the California League of Cities, "is designed to eliminate virtually all government regulation." Environmentalists say that if it passes, California's coastal commission, unable to compensate everyone who wants to build along the oceanfront, would no longer be able to protect it from ugly McMansions and ensure public beach access. And developers could build homes on dangerously steep slopes or plop factories into residential neighborhoods. More imaginatively, the nonpartisan California Budget Project argues that because Prop 90 applies to consumer-protection laws, if the state restricted ATM fees, it would have...
Currently, 447 million kilograms of chemical pesticides are used in U.S. agriculture every year. Sure, they rid crops of pesky insects and fungi, but most of them are carcinogenic. Although conventional farms must abide by EPA guidelines for safe levels of pesticide residue on crops, this does not protect the thousands of farm workers who suffer severe illnesses from having to spray the toxins. At current levels of pesticide residue, none of us will be suing Harvard University Dining Services for feeding us conventionally grown tomatoes at the salad bar. But long-term consequences are largely unknown and a cause...
...serve her husband like God, no matter what. But Confucius lived centuries ago, and Chen, 42, is a telecommunications executive with a good salary. "I want to get divorced," she says. "That's the only way my life will have hope again." (Chen's name has been changed to protect the privacy of her husband...
...girlfriend in the bedroom, she ended her six-year marriage. "Women have more expectations from marriage now," she says. "They won't put up with the things their mothers or grandmothers might have, and they're not ashamed about divorce, either." (Li's name has been changed to protect the privacy of her ex-husband...