{"id":2969,"date":"2012-05-21T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2012-05-17T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:38:51","slug":"no-duplicating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/05\/no-duplicating.html","title":{"rendered":"No Duplicating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/files\/2012\/05\/ccr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2985\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2012\/05\/ccr-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>As a professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, I taught a series of popular courses on software engineering. The program was highly competitive and difficult to get into, but one prospective student made our decision whether to accept him quite simple. When asked to fax over his college transcript, the student told me, &#8220;Well, I would, but it&#8217;s the only copy that I&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212; Jim Skinner<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>Provided Courtesy of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/\">Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Click here for more<strong> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/all-jokes.do?cat=1198\">Military Jokes<\/a>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, I taught a series of popular courses on software engineering. The program was highly competitive and difficult to get into, but one prospective student made our decision whether to accept him quite simple. 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