Word: rethinking
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Amid startling data on the prevalence of cheating--in an undergraduate survey conducted this academic year at a dozen colleges by Rutgers professor Donald McCabe, 67% of the 13,248 respondents admitted to having cheated at least once on a paper or test--some students are getting administrators to rethink their use of gotcha tools. Nova Scotia's Mount St. Vincent University went as far as banning Turnitin after the student-union president complained that it created "a culture of mistrust, a culture of guilt...
...Each time you confront another culture," says the director Bekmambetov, whose sequel Day Watch will be released in the U.S. next month, "it gives you the motivation to create something different, to rethink your film in a way." In this Internet-chatting, newscrawl-reading multicultural era, when filmmakers can thematically incorporate subtitles into the story, a corner may have been turned. It's happened before; remember only a few years back when everyone believed that letterboxing was blocking part of the screen? Now it's hard to find DVDs that aren't letterboxed. Still, for subtitling, it might be slow...
...worth much more than that to IFF and its clients. The company devotes 9% of its revenue, or $185 million a year, toward research and development, employing more than 100 scientists whose task is not just to brew up new smells and flavors but also to rethink how smells and flavors are embedded in products. That investment is a sunk cost for fragrance companies; they get paid only when a manufacturer buys the finished product as an ingredient. So IFF makes money on volume. A sodamaker, for example, would buy vats of flavoring for every batch of a popular drink...
...often a full sensory experience, more so than painting, photography or video.” Unlike those other mediums, the documented artwork featured in the exhibit has a short life expectancy. None of the original projects in the exhibit still exists materially. The process of documentation also precipitates a rethinking of the original work. “Through documentation, we can rethink these works or revisit and appreciate the work that went into realizing them rather than a painting which is painted and then continually exhibited. These works, if they’re not documented, then they?...
Regional crises, Mallat said, force leaders to “rethink constitutional theory to include minorities in particular situations,” referring to Israel, Lebanon, and Iraq...