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Focuses on a program entitled `Experimental Digital Economy,' run by the University of Texas, Austin, which is aimed at teaching students about electronic commerce. Participation of the university's Graduate School of Business and the Mexico City campus of the Monterrey Institution of Technology and Higher Education; Expectations concerning on-line retail sales; Businesses' strategy to attract and keep customers; Student-run on-line companies, including Grade Sensitive Pricing Inc.

The article reports that a characteristic item found in libraries' special collections is the so-called association copy, a book whose significance derives from its connection with a well-known writer, artist, or historical figure. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin is legendary for owning no fewer than 34 of the 1,000 copies of the first edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses," many of which are association copies. One copy, which used to belong to British adventurer and writer T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, stands out for its full range of appeals to the senses.

Reports on the increasing number of Web sites offering fake college documents in the U.S. Number of institutions that are using a server at the University of Texas at Austin to send and receive transcripts nationwide; Way to guard against receiving fraudulent transcripts; Questions that college registrars should ask in evaluating the authenticity of a student transcript.

The article focuses on the author's memorable visit to an exhibition titled "Technologies of Writing," held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In the exhibition the author came to see that the writing traced its origins to little clay markers the Sumerians who started using writing more than 9,000 years ago with the purpose of keeping track of things like grain and cattle. According to curator of the exhibit Kurt Heinzelman, the Sumerians were the first not the last who invented writing. Heinzelman told the author that writing got invented three four times.

Offers news briefs regarding technological issues in the field of education. Increased number of graduate programs that require students to submit their dissertations electronically; The request of a student from the University of Texas at Austin to submit her dissertation on CD-ROM.

Details the activities of students of the University of Texas in Austin during their spring vacation. Reason students went to Barton Springs in Austin; Study habits of students.

Focuses on the resignation in June 2001 of professor Karen Ruggiero, who was recruited by the University of Texas in Austin in September 2000, amid charges that she faked research data at her former institution. Brief information on her research; Remarks from the executive vice president of the Texas institution.

Discusses the growth of academic fraud world-wide. Cheating and other forms of falsification at epidemic proportions; Research of Harold J. Noah and colleague described at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society in April, 1999; Why students cheat; View that competitive pressures led officials in the Austin, Texas school system to illegally invalidate the results of their lowest-scoring students on the 1998 Texas Assessment of Academic Skills examination.

Focuses on the success of the University Co-Operative Society bookstore at the University of Texas in Austin. Changes in the management; Closure of several departments of the bookstore to tighten its financial and inventory controls; Success of the cooperative in selling used books.

Reports on the dispute at the University of Texas over the design of their Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art in Austin. Selection of architects Herzog & de Meuron; How architecture should reflect the goals of the institution; Connections of the author with the university; Importance of collaborating and respecting the work of professionals.

The article reviews several museum exhibits on culture running within the United States in 2008. Exhibitions include "Mambo Jambo: Cabinet of the Cosmos," at Rice University Art Gallery, in Houston, Texas, January 24-March 2, "American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music," through September 7 at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Washington, and "On the Road with the Beats," February 4-August 3 at the Harry Ransom Research Center of the University of Texas, Austin.

Evaluates Whitfield Lovell's portraits of lives, indirect portraits of his own life, presented in the exhibition, entitled `Whispers from the walls: The art of Whitfield Lovell' at the Texas Fine Arts Association's Jones Center for Contemporary Art in Austin, Texas. Painting style; Subjects used; Overview on the life of the African-American artist.

Looks at the web-based system that will let students submit information about their interests and living habits and to get in touch with potential roommates, developed by the administrators at the University of Texas at Austin. Comments by Sheila Ochner, the university's associate director for housing and food; Debate over the questions to be asked.