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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...status quo would be acceptable, though still unattractive, if cheating were a victimless crime. But most large science classes—incidentally the places where copying on problem sets is most apt to occur—are graded on a curve. This creates a zero-sum situation, where any points people gain by cheating do not simply help them, but hurt others...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, | Title: Problem Set Problem: Cheating | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...justified my cheating by the fact that I thought it was a dumb requirement,” Bobby says. “It’s really easy to rationalize as well because you know a lot of people do it, and in the end, it’s victimless...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What is Cheating? Part II | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...justified my cheating by the fact that I thought it was a dumb requirement,” Bobby says. “It’s really easy to rationalize as well because you know a lot of people do it, and in the end, it’s victimless...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What is Cheating? | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...more important issues, such as terrorism and violent crime, while the ONDCP could shift its focus to more harmful drugs like cocaine and heroin. Decriminalization would save billions of dollars in taxes every year and rescue hundreds of thousands of citizens from the humiliation of being arrested for a victimless crime...

Author: By Nicholas F. B. smyth, | Title: Marijuana Doesn’t Kill People (Guns Do) | 10/30/2002 | See Source »

...facto town squares for Montgomery County's affluent families. From the backseat of a Fairfax, Va., woman's car, a 5-year-old who has been newly forbidden from riding his bike asks, "Mommy, will it hurt if I get shot?" At the scene of the first, victimless shooting, employees now walk zigzag across the parking lot. They still take smoking breaks, but now they stand pressed up against cement columns, trying to act nonchalant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Sniper Manhunt | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

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