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There's a growing problem on some campuses, but it has not yet been reported at Sam Houston State.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sept. 10 that growing numbers of students across the country are using their cell phones to cheat. Some students are using their camera phones to take pictures of answers, while others have used text messaging to send test answers to classmates.
New option for burying corpses helps fish
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OCEAN CITY, N.J. (AP) _ As if shooting them into space or pressing them into artificial diamonds were not sufficiently offbeat, the deceased can now have their ashes mixed into concrete to help form ocean fish habitats.
A Georgia company has placed about 200 of the concrete cones, called 'reef balls,' in the ocean, mostly along the Gulf Coast.
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WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) _ With terrorism the new global threat, a network of radio antennas that let the Navy maintain secure communications with submarines at sea has become yet another Cold War relic.
On Thursday, the Navy will shut off its extremely low frequency (ELF) radio transmitters in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, saying the 15-year-old system, first proposed in the 1960s, is outdated and no longer needed.
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HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla. (AP) _ Hurricane Jeanne _ the latest in a relentless parade of hurricanes to pound Florida _ sliced across the state Sunday with howling wind and rain, turning streets into rivers, peeling off roofs and rocketing debris from earlier storms through the air.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Taran Rampersad didn't complain when he failed to find anything on his hometown in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Instead, he simply wrote his own entry for San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago.
Wikipedia is unique for an encyclopedia because anybody can add, edit and even erase.
