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...high school physics class, you should know that a length of wire with an electric current running through it generates a magnetic field--the stronger the current, the stronger the magnetic field. And if you ever watched Mr. Wizard, you should remember him showing how a magnetic field can distort a television image...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Harvard's Computer Wasteland | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...Dowling has made statements against me," McCombe said. "And they have tried to distort the truth about any guard who has gone to The Crimson...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Pattern of Abuse Charged by Guard | 2/18/1993 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council's new "enhanced choice" proposal would make matters worse. To promote their plan, council members have toyed with statistics, presenting misleading best-case scenarios that distort the plan's effects. Logistically complicated and questionably effective, enhanced choice takes Harvard a step backwards toward a system that many considered problematic...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Randomization: Playing God, Again | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

...worst part of these descriptions of Little Rock is that they distort the realities of the city. How about this from Kelly...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Sunburned From Media Glare | 12/5/1992 | See Source »

...already visible. In his speeches and in his television ads, the President is relentlessly hitting Clinton as a "tax and spend" liberal of the old school. A top Clinton adviser says the charge is resonating "mildly" and admits it "doesn't much matter" that Bush's ads shamelessly distort the Democrat's proposals. (The latest Republican commercial predicts disastrous tax increases for several average Americans, dubious calculations that senior adviser Charles Black lamely defends as legitimate because the spot claims "only" that such horrors "could" occur, not that they necessarily will.) Bush's team professes delight with Clinton's reflexive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Why Bush Welcomes Perot | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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