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According to Litvak, this so-called window error was discovered several years ago. Scientists had previously thought that random error was the only factor to blame for inaccuracies in test results...
...temptation to blame the plane comes largely from a confusion between experimental aircraft and ultralight planes. Both became hugely popular in the mid-1980s after a series of product-liability lawsuits drove the makers of conventional small planes--Piper Cubs, Cessna 150s and other single-engine aircraft--to the brink of bankruptcy and, in some cases, over...
...body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding suburban counties do, echoing a comparison made in similar school-funding battles being waged from New Jersey to Alaska. But such comparisons say nothing about...
...congressional mandates deserve only part of the blame. Beginning early last year, the state attorney general's office started gathering an extraordinary collection of legal depositions from city-school administrators and teachers that describe a dysfunctional management culture--dubbed in an earlier management audit the "culture of complacency"--that hindered effective use of the money that Baltimore schools received each year. In particular the depositions provide telling testimony on the "dance of the lemons," a phrase education researchers use to describe the way school bureaucracies shuffle unproductive, even dangerous, employees from post to post...
Explosive attacks on the powers that be didn't start with the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. In December 1905, in Caldwell, Idaho, a sagebrush railroad town near Boise, a bomb attached to a garden gate killed the state's former Governor, Frank Steunenberg. Blame for the murder was quickly pinned on traveling "sheep dealer" Harry Orchard, who confessed to being a paid assassin for the Western Federation of Miners, one of the era's most powerful labor unions. The union's highest officials were indicted, and the young Clarence Darrow hired to defend them. The result was a kind...