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Prairie View students shut down a highway in order to march seven miles for early voting.
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A chemist published seventy plagiarized papers in three years, despite the fact that "The instruments cited in his papers did not exist in the department "
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Love the title.
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A method of using entangled particles to solve a version of the "Byzantine General Problem."
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A scheme for holding light-emitting bubbles in place, producing more light and enabling better studies of sonoluminescence.
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Jessa Crispin on the absurdity of fashion guides for women. And again, I am grateful for my Y chromosome.
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