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...winner, Janine Antoni, once attachedherself to an electroencephalograph and spent thenight sleeping in a loom. She later used the loomto weave a blanket featuring the brain wavepatterns from her dreams...
...least one editor from every beat is on duty on any given night. Then the daily stories, too, could be edited by someone who knows something about the subject matter. It would also ensure a modicum of consistency in editorial policy. Secondly, confirming quotations should be made a blanket policy in all cases. If extending this courtesy in 50 percent more cases would cut down on 100 percent of the complaints, surely the extra trouble would be worthwhile...
...told me point blank the he did not think women in the sciences were intellectually equal to men," she says. "He refrained from making this a blanket statement because he realized that he would be insulting my intelligence...
...timing was lucky since the respite was fleeting; by the middle of the week she was back in Kenneth Starr's crosshairs, after it was disclosed that Judge Norma Holloway Johnson had rejected Ginsburg's claim that Starr was obliged to honor a blanket-immunity deal that would have guaranteed her never having to get used to prison food. Lewinsky represents Starr's best chance to nail down a case of obstruction of justice against the President, a pattern of persuading associates to keep his secrets to themselves...
Ahsan asserts that a "blanket ban" on the use of child labor by the companies that make Harvard apparel will cause us to falsely clear our consciences because it will do harm rather than good. The ban would deprive poor kids of much-needed sources of income, forcing them to either "rummage through rubbish heaps" or seek a job with "some other probably more exploitative local manufacturer (over whom Western public opinion holds little sway)." Almost all garment factories, globally, manufacture clothes primarily for "Western" firms--the kind that are Harvard's licensees--whether those factories are owned directly...