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...future is a random business, which is why psychics are not taken seriously by mainstream society...

Author: By Patty W. Seo, | Title: Tennis: A Reversal of Expectations | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

PUBLISHER: RANDOM HOUSE; 378 PAGES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Out The Closets | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...application process for College Jeopardy began last summer when interested students sent in postcards with their names. The first "cut" was a random selection of students to invite to tryouts in November...

Author: By Gaston DE Los reyes, | Title: What Is a Winner? | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

PUBLISHER: RANDOM HOUSE; 362 PAGES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying For Disaster | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...their programs can be in providing evidence of something as shady and nebulous as plagiarism. Thanks to their computational speed and power, computers can riffle through reams of data and pinpoint patterns of repetition the naked eye might never notice. But what do these patterns signify? Intentional theft? Random clusters of words attracted to each other by grammar or syntax? Something in between? Interestingly enough, some historians who received the Stewart-Feder report decided it exonerated Oates of any suspicion of plagiarism, since the examples showed how much the majority of his writing differed from his presumed sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purloined Letters | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

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