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Star Tribune, March 24, 2005 |
A large portion of the materials on plagiarism on the University of Wisconsin-Oshkoshs Writing Center website was revealed in February to have been taken verbatim from Purdue Universitys Web page on plagiarism. Note (Hals): end note | Topic: |
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Star Tribune, October 12, 2006 |
At the Wimbledon Magistrates Court in England in July, Andrew Curzon was charged with wrongfully attempting to cash a neighbors pension-adjustment check in the equivalent of about $220,000. The explanation by Curzon (who is a law student) is that he has dyspraxia, which renders him unable to engage in logical thinking. | Topic: |
Star Tribune, January 17, 2008 |
Least competent criminals
Arthur Cheney, 64, was arrested near Marysville, Calif., in December driving a car that had been spotted at a bank robbery. On the center console of the car, officers found a yellow sticky note with a handwritten Robbery 100s and 50s only. Said an officer, We call that a clue. | Topic: |
Star Tribune, December 6, 2008
Additional category: Computer programming | On second thought ...
Facing a state budget crisis in July, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fired about 10,000 temporary and part-time workers and ordered the 200,000 permanent employees to be paid only the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until the Legislature passed a crisis-solving budget. However, a week later the state controller pointed out that state payroll records could not be changed to accommodate the cut because they were written in the antiquated COBOL computer language and virtually the only state employees who knew the code were some of the part-timers Schwarzenegger had just fired. Note (Hals): end note | |
Star Tribune, November 21, 2009 |
Come here, ya big ape
CNN, reporting from the London Zoo in August, described the excitement surrounding news that the zoo would soon acquire a 12-year-old male gorilla from a preserve in France. Zoo officials were pleased, but its three older female gorillas were almost ecstatic. Shown posters of Yeboah, the male, female Zaire shrieked in delight; Effie wedged the poster into a tree and stared at it; and Mjukuu held the photo close to her chest, then ate it. |
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