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...Integrity at Duke University, in which almost 40 percent of undergraduates admitted to committing “cut and paste” plagiarism from the Internet at some point during their college career. TurnItIn.com is already used extensively by high schools and works by comparing submitted material to a vast database culled from the Internet, previously submitted student work, and periodicals and journals, to determine if the author has cheated. If the program works well, it is a long-needed remedy to the current luck-of-the-draw system in which getting caught for or accused of plagiarism depends largely...
...after a massive voluntary recall of laptop batteries, Stringer turned opportunist, using the smoking cells as cover to clear out the vestiges of Sony's change-resistant culture. In Stringervision, the new Sony is led by software and linked horizontally across its vast product line. No more will the folks in the camera group not know what the TV-set guys are doing, he vows. He named a new boss of the consumer-electronics unit, Katsumi Ihara, to see to that. Software design is getting an overhaul too, so movies, MP3 players, TVs and cameras aren't strangers. The shining...
...kind of distant war for all of us. But obviously, for the people who serve in it, it’s not distant.”But filming in South Central was more than just a chance to explore a different culture. For the English actor, it highlighted the vast differences in social classes in the United States.“This was a great opportunity to find out about people, and you have a great excuse to ask people questions where usually they’d look at you and say, ‘Shut the fuck...
...Harvard undergrads, we are in the enviable position of spending four years at an institution with both extremely talented peers and vast political resources. Many young people, even Harvard students, still don’t believe that making a real difference in politics is possible at our age; they could not be more wrong, and students at Harvard have more opportunities to make an impact than anyone else. To cite just one example, policy regarding sex trafficking, drawn up by Harvard students at the IOP, has recently served as evidence for a bill in the state legislature in Pennsylvania...
...also rings true with our lives, which are linked to those of strangers around the world today in ways we sense but can't quite comprehend. We are at "war" against loose networks of enemies with no uniform or flag. Our jobs are at the mercy of vast global webs. We make sprawling (if shallow) ties through social-networking websites. We worry if our emissions will come back to us as global warming, if our foreign policy will come back to us as terrorism. A guy halfway around the world could read your X-rays, take your outsourced job, become...