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...which we view plagiarism, it [the decision] seems to me the only proper outcome." Bowen added the hope that the disciplinary action would make the student "a better and stronger" person. Napolitano responded by securing the services of a New Jersey law firm, which filed suit in New Jersey Superior Court. "My whole purpose is to avoid having the label of plagiarist attached to me for the rest of my life," Napolitano insisted in an interview with TIME. "I really didn't feel that I was given a fair hearing." She claims that due process, as well...
Boys do better at math, girls have superior language skills, or so the popular wisdom has it. For years, scientists and educators have been seeking a biological basis for these perceived differences between the sexes. The latest finding is reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Neurologist Daniel B. Hier and Internist William F. Crowley gave intelligence tests to 19 men with a rare disorder that inhibits the pubertal surge of male hormones, androgens. The subjects scored lower than normal males on tests of spatial ability, the capacity to visualize and mentally manipulate objects in space...
...manufacturers have usually been considered superior in two areas that are regarded as crucial to success in selling the small machines: distribution and software, the instructions that tell the computer how to perform specific tasks. The Japanese, however, have shrewdly avoided language and cultural problems by designing their computers to use American-made software. Moreover, some Japanese companies now expect to use their considerable experience in selling electronic equipment to both businesses and consumers to offset the current American advantage in marketing...
Here as elsewhere, Bok seeks to lay down an ethical line. The practice of hiring minority professors preferentially, he writes, "threatens to diminish the academic enterprise by lowering the quality of teaching and research." Rather than promoting justice, he says, preferential hiring practices "unfairly penalizes candidates of superior ability while holding little promise of achieving greater equality in the society as a whole...
...Vietnamese man accused of throwing a firebomb at one of the speakers at a Harvard panel discussion on Victnamese affairs last April was found innocent by reason of insanity last week, in Middlesex Superior Court...