So he copied Gallagher’s essay for his online profile. Online daters feel pressure to stand out and believe they must sell themselves like a product, say researchers at Georgetown, Rutgers and Michigan State universities who are conducting a joint study of them. After hunting for some copy-and-paste help — including borrowing the line “you will soon learn that I’m a raging egomaniac” — Picazio says he’s gotten 20 dates. Nearly half of high-school students and nearly 40 percent of college undergrads confess they copy online sources, according to surveys conducted by Donald McCabe, a founder of the Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University in South Carolina. The book “Online Dating for Dummies” tells readers not to fret about copying. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is hanging on for his political life after the revelation that, among 14,000 text messages between him and his chief of staff Christine Beatty, there was evidence of an extramarital affair. read more
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