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...writer for the University of Michigan’s daily student newspaper was fired this week after the paper’s editors discovered that she had lifted text nearly verbatim from several media sources, including The Crimson...
...almost 40 years Shanghai was cut off from the world," says Tess Johnston, a 75-year-old American who has lived in Shanghai for more than two decades and who wrote the text for Erh's book. "Now that the city has a chance to catch up, it is looking to the future and neglecting the past. If things don't change, everything that makes Shanghai unique will be lost forever...
...into the history books. (Just who provided what expertise for the motor is no laughing matter. It's the center of a heated dispute between the two.) Benson, 61, is not new to new industries, having got his start in the nascent Internet world. In 1984 he created full-text indexing and search and sold Compusearch to an East Coast investment group for about $10 million. After a decade of work on satellites, he hopes to raise $50 million to mass produce the Dream Chaser. While Benson may not have the deep pockets of his rivals, he has aerospace experience...
DIED. Bruce Metzger, 93, eminent New Testament scholar who oversaw the 1989 publication of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the touchstone for those on the liberal side of the biblical-text wars; in Princeton, N.J. A graceful linguist and world authority on translating the New Testament from the original Greek, he aimed to create a more modern, accessible text. Among its revisions: gender-neutral language, the elimination of thees and thous, and syntactical shifts to avoid confusion in meaning. A sentence that Metzger's team edited as "Once I received a stoning," for example, had previously read...
...that precipitates asking questions.” The filmmakers said they shaped the idea for “Secrecy” in their jointly-taught class, History of Science 152, “Filming Science,” over the past three years. The class interactively juxtaposes film and text to explore science. “While text handles exposition decisively in a way film doesn’t, film is a kind of lens in which to look at current events,” Moss said of the medium. They emphasized the importance of showing the nuances of government...