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...small electrical charge through the blade of his Delta power saw. Whenever the blade was touched, the body would absorb some of the charge like a circuit breaker and immediately trigger the brake. He built a prototype, videotaped the demonstration and tried to license his invention to power-tool manufacturers like Delta. "One company said, 'We decided not to pursue this because the marketing guys say safety doesn't sell,'" he recalls...
...Europeans ever more worried about their dependence on Russian gas. With decreasing levels of democracy and freedom to dissent with the government, Putin’s Russia can be relied upon neither for gas, nor for global stability. Back in the day, the Pravda newspaper was considered a prime tool of red propaganda. In 2003, a rather curious title suggested: “Russian weapons make every country feel safe.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the eve of the G8 summit, fellow members of this elite club must acknowledge that Russia...
...independently hosted and probably will be for the foreseeable future, according to Harvard Dems President Eric P. Lesser ’07, although he praised the introduction of the new server as a necessary step. “Blogs are becoming an increasingly important communication tool on campus, and the servers Harvard was providing before weren’t meeting the need,” he said. Theodore B. Bressman, author of “Cheddar Ted,” listed as one of the most popular blogs on the blog hosting website campusTap, also said he didn?...
Indeed Facebook—with such idiosyncratic features as individual message board “wall” postings and “poking”—is well-known as a procrastination tool...
...bandwagon?Not anytime soon, say administrators and instructors here.TURNING THE TABLESThe Internet makes it easier for students to lift passages from other sources. But it also makes it easier to catch the copiers.The creator and chief executive of TurnItIn, John Barrie, said his software is an indispensable tool.“All the other methods, such as proctors and honor codes, are the status quo. That is what people have been trying to do and they have failed. This is the only technology that works to stop student plagiarism,” said Barrie, who started TurnItIn in 1996. Barrie...