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...rounds of editors at Viswanathan’s publishing house, Little, Brown, couldn’t weed the words of other writers from the sophomore’s novel before it went to press, how can professors and teaching fellows at Harvard expect to police plagiarism in coursework?An Oakland, Calif.-based software company says it has a solution.The company’s anti-plagiarism system, TurnItIn, scans student papers for similarities with previous work.At universities that subscribe to TurnItIn, professors can submit student papers to the company’s website—and those papers remain...
...option of staying within the established concentrations, although most are likely to switch, Lieberman said. Members of the Class of 2010, though, will not have the option of concentrating in Biology or Biocehmical Sciences. Freshmen considering life science concentrations have expressed excitement about these new changes. Andew P. Oakland ’09 praised the addition of the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience track because it will “get more into the reasons behind biological behavior rather than making observations about behavior.” “Most of the people I’ve talked to about...
...BREAK Raised in Oakland, Calif., Lapp studied education at Brown University and spent a year teaching history in South Africa. She earned a master's degree in economic and political development from Columbia University, turning her thesis into a book about the root causes of hunger and poverty, Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, co-written with her mom. "Globally, we're producing enough food not only to be well fed but to get chubby," says Lapp. "If more citizens rather than corporations had a say in decisions being made about our food, there wouldn...
...Yiyun Li is author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and an assistant professor at Mills College in Oakland, California
While it is true that the communities in and around San Francisco have taken a number of laudable steps--constructing a whole new span for the San Francisco--Oakland Bay Bridge, for example--it is also plain that they need to do more. There are tens of thousands of older buildings in the Bay Area that do not meet modern earthquake standards, among them office and apartment buildings whose upper floors rest atop an unreinforced storefront or garage. In an earthquake, such "soft-story" buildings are likely to collapse or sustain damage so severe that no one will be able...