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...have about 20 matching strings. "With this method we see the way authors use and reuse the same phrases and metaphors, like chunks of fabric in a weave," says Vickers. "If you have enough of them, you can identify one fabric as Scottish tweed and another as plain gray cloth." (No insult intended to Kyd.) (See the top 10 imposters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...some ways. I'm just going to talk through my hat because I have no actual information for you, but maybe it's our relative lack of deep history that might curse us to this quest. We're a slightly amnesiac country. We were invented out of whole cloth fairly recently, and we're very dedicated to not looking at the past and very pointed to the future. America is kind of a science fiction novel in a way. Very weak on character and backstory, but very strong in concept and dynamism and cool ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...assertion that there is "no evidence" against the Rio execs, the widespread assumption among steel-industry insiders with experience operating in China is the opposite - that the government will likely be able to produce evidence that is not, as a source put it, "made up out of whole cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China vs. Rio Tinto: The Confrontation Isn't Over | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...Abdullah Mehsud (no relation), a one-legged militant imprisoned at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, soon after the 9/11 terror attacks. Baitullah Mehsud quickly leapfrogged his boss, and his ascension up the jihadi ladder was made apparent in 2005, when - swathed in a black cloth to shield his face - he negotiated the public signing of a cease-fire agreement with the Pakistani government. (Read "Why Pakistan Balks at the U.S. Afghanistan Offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Pakistan's Taliban Chief Dead? | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...seats, the ceiling, the dashboard, the steering wheel, even the doors were completely covered in fabric—cow fabric. Everywhere I looked, white cloth with black spots...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: Holy Cow! | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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