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Thursday, June 28, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/28/technology/28CHEA.html June 28, 2001 Lessons in Internet Plagiarism By KATIE HAFNER To a student at Spring Lake Park High School outside Minneapolis, it seemed like a formatting problem: the margins on the research paper he was trying to print out for an English class this spring were not aligning correctly. But when he complained to Jane Prestebak, a librarian whose duties include running the school's computer labs, she immediately suspected the actual cause. Ms. Prestebak took the first five words of text and put them in a search engine. Up came the Web site from which the student had taken the paper, in its entirety, margin formatting and all....
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