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...apparent resolution to a six-year-old case of academic theft, two former Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have signed an agreement admitting that they stole research data and materials—including genetic material and cell lines—from the HMS cell biology laboratory where they were employed as postdoctoral fellows...
According to the agreement, the theft came as Zhu and Kimbara were preparing to leave Harvard for a lab at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Over the course of five days during winter break in late 1999 and early 2000, the researchers entered the lab as early as 5:34 a.m., removed materials, and shipped them by private carrier to Texas...
...theft of primary research data compromised the careers of student colleagues by slowing the development of publications, and also slowed the development of therapies for human disease,” the statement read...
...most recent study, “Content and Ratings of Mature-Rated Video Games,” looked at a random sample taken from all M-rated games available for Xbox, Game Cube and Playstation 2. The two top-selling games of 2004 were “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” and “Halo 2,” both rated “M,” according to the NPD Group, a market research firm. “We found that [these] video games were correctly labeled with the violence and blood content...
...many neighborhoods. Sometimes, from the skeleton of a house, a homeowner wearing a surgical mask quietly appears. But more often than not there is no one at all.The city suffers in other parts. Not all the streetlights work. The potholes have somehow gotten worse. Homeowners still worry about theft. They don’t want the tools they use by day to resurrect their homes to be stolen at night.Out in the gentrified sections of the city, far away from Fountain’s home, little seems changed from before Katrina’s arrival. Brides can still buy wedding...