"Top Ten Interesting 'Stuff and Things'"

1. A young woman buying a Louis Vuitton Murakami Cherry Blossom bag at a street-vendor booth. A bag that retails for about $1,500, she is likely to pay around $25.
2. “Reagan pronounced: ’Government is not the solution, government is the problem’.”
3. Four key reasons why transformations led to more cheating, New Pressures, Bigger Rewards for Winning, Temptation, and Trickle-down Corruption.
4. “If morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work, then the story on Feldman’s bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics”.
5. “In 1963 a national study determined that 81 percent of college students had engaged in some form of dishonest academic behavior; in 1993 the percentage was 83 percent”.
6. “Wealth has its privileges”.
7. Elizabeth Paige Laurie, 23, paid her roommate Elena Martinez a total of $20,000 to write her papers and help her prepare for tests.
8. “Pushed by pressures to succeed and armed with the latest technology, a growing number of today’s students seem to feel less and less reluctant to borrow rather than create”.
9. Downloading from the internet is the most common form of cheating today.
10. Teachers now look for student with one arm on the desk and one arm under it, using their cell phones.