Word: corrections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...January 2000 and ordered a comprehensive review. His blue-ribbon commission issued more than 80 recommendations, but the state legislature hasn't passed any reform measures. As the clock ticked on his term, Ryan began to personally review all death-row inmates' cases. "I have taken extraordinary action to correct manifest wrongs," he said. But Cook County state's attorney Richard Devine, whose office prosecuted the four pardoned men, called the Governor's actions "outrageous and unconscionable." Ryan, he said, "has breached faith with the memory of the dead victims, their families and the people he was elected to serve...
...disembodied voices of schizophrenia and the feelings of worthlessness and self-hatred that accompany depression, although they seem to be based on reality, are no more than distortions in brain electrochemistry. Researchers are learning how these distortions arise, how to lessen their severity and, in some cases, how to correct them...
...correct answer, most often, is that it's impossible to know--in large part because we're precisely the wrong people to ask. Timothy Wilson, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious, believes that there are fixed barriers to self-knowledge about what goes on deep inside our skulls. Says he: "I think that idle introspection in everyday life can be quite disruptive...
...What are those pragmatic issues? "Since all the publishing houses are state-owned, making the government and the Ministry of Propaganda happy is the most important thing," he says. "We need books with the correct political tone to win government awards. Once we are awarded some prizes, we can get benefits, like unlimited ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers). It simply means money. Besides appealing to the government, we have to take aim at the market. Our books must sell. Literary books are our last concern...
...Touborg said that the university had been working to correct the problem before the protest and that it had since been resolved...