Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider first the fundamental question: Where does the utility of the computer lie? Ellison is correct in claiming that computers are useful as a means of accessing information. However, what's at stake is not the information itself, but how the computer accesses it and what it can do with it once...
...also explored how DNA molecules correct errors in their replication, and how they carry out the process of restriction, when a cell recognizes and wants to destroy a foreign DNA model that enters the cell...
Subtle tricks may have increased the psychics' batting average. The CIA investigators suspected that the psychics may have been subconsciously coaxed to the correct targets by their handlers. Many were former military intelligence officers whose mental pictures of far-off sites may have been informed by experience. The CIA study also found evidence that the handlers sometimes embellished what the psychics saw. "Folks want to believe that the paranormal is for real," says Martin Gardner, one of the founders of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. And at least one Senator--Claiborne Pell...
Executives have raided health-care programs too. Roger and Sharon Lindsay of Palatine, Illinois, discovered just that last March, on the day before one of their 20-month-old triplets underwent major surgery to correct a defective esophagus. "They put out the deception that everything was fine with the insurance because they kept deducting from our paychecks," says Roger Lindsay, who worked as a salesman for the Regina vacuum-cleaner company, which is under new management. But the previous owners had failed to pay the premiums that were due on Lindsay's medical policy for his last four paychecks, allowing...
...wants to clean up the family name. The attacks on him here have made him a villain in Mexican society. People are wearing masks with his picture in a jail suit. It's really nasty. But Salinas probably will testify. He's a tough guy who feels he can correct the perception people have of him." Salinas fled the country last spring after resigning from the presidency amid the collapse of the Mexican economy and his brother's arrest on murder charges. Mexican leaders have demanded Salinas, who is believed to be in Cuba, return to Mexico to answer questions...