About 300 of the roughly 46, 000 students who took the class with an MIT professor filed into test-taking centers around the world in the hopes of earning a "proctored honor certificate" from the class signed by the professor.

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"To be a Wal-Mart supplier is a badge of honor, " says Robert Lamb, a management professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

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He is also an adjunct professor of Political Science and Sociology at Wilkes Honor College at Florida Atlantic University.

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That witness, University of Toronto professor Shahrzad Mojab, said that in some families, honor is worth more than life.

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" According to the Los Angeles Times, the IAEA director, Mohamed ElBaradei, a former law professor at New York University, sallied forth to defend his organization's honor saying " the report used the word 'evidence' to mean 'proof' - words that he argued were interchangeable in a legal sense.

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As a mother of three, a wife, a science teacher, an administrator, a college professor, a tennis coach, a sponsor of Future Educators of America and Science National Honor Society and Girl Scout leader, Florida delegate Dr. Marilyn Zaragoza is an achiever, successfully balancing many different hats.

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