The people who organize races like the motorola marathon have started to take cheating very seriously. many race organizers use a combination of methods to prevent cheating and to catch cheaters. one way is to attach a small computerized chip to a competitor's shoe. the chip is lightweight and a little bigger than a quarter. the chip tracks a runner's time at different points on the course. this determines whether he or she ran the entire distance. computer chips alone will not expose all cheaters, however. race officials also used video cameras at secret locations to watch runners. they also scatter volunteers throughout the course. the volunteers watch the runners and write down their numbers and times. sometimes race officials can catch a cheater just by looking at him or her. irregular sweat patterns in clothing, a lack of salt stains on a runner's face, and inappropriate clothes are telltale signs of cheating. those who dare to cheat better have the course memorized and be prepared to identify runners they saw along the way. race officials can be pretty nosy if they have suspicions.

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Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?