As almost any college student can tell you, there are dozens of Web sites that make plagiarizing term papers easier than ever before.
Academic thieves beware.
While the Internet has placed a wealth of research papers at the fingertips of students, a new Web site could help professors catch plagiarizers red-handed. It's a fact of Information Age life that the Internet doesn t care who it empowers. If a student at the University of California, Berkeley, has his way, plagiarism on the Internet could be as dead as the Y2K bug. Biophysics doctoral candidate John Barrie has spearheaded the development of an Internet-based program that detects plagiarism. Inc. All rights reserved.