Teaching with Technology. Cancer researcher Marek Wronski used the National Library of Medicine's PubMed to find instances of 30 allegedly plagiarized medical papers ostensibly authored by a Polish chemical engineer. Additional research by Wronski has unearthed 29 more suspect papers. The engineer, who claimed to have authored 125 articles in a 13-year career, now faces charges of plagiarism. A new survey of 300 corporate executives by Olsten Staffing Service shows the extent of Microsoft's expanding dominance in the software business.
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