Word: error
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paloff's fellow Mather seniors also received a letter from the registrar's office last month saying their diplomas were invalid due to a printing error--the titles of House Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75 and Co-Master Leigh G. Hafrey '73 had been switched--and that the certificates had to be mailed back in exchange for correct ones...
...give you an e-mail heads- up about what's due and when. Paper ones are scanned into cyberspace, so you can view the original documents online before authorizing payment. All three companies pledge to work with any biller and any bank and to insure losses due to error or fraud. They assert that all transactions are encrypted for security and that personal information is kept confidential...
...similar process of educated-guess-and-error led people to load up on the nutritional supplement beta carotene in the early 1990s. Scientists noted that those who eat lots of fruits and vegetables tend to get less cancer and speculated that carotenoids--the same antioxidant substances that seem to protect against heart disease--were responsible. In particular, they focused on beta carotene, the most abundant and common carotenoid, as the most likely to prevent cancer...
...take justice into their own hands. Last month, a passing wannabe miner got into another man's mine and rifled a lode of opals that the owner had opened up but left unextracted. (He had taken off to the pub for a beer, committing the fatal error of letting on that he'd struck, and this was overheard by the thief.) His friends identified the thief from his boot prints, said nothing, came for him the next night, broke both his arms and threw him alive down one of the thousands of abandoned mineshafts that speckle the landscape...
...Walter Kirn's article "The Danger of Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31], a factual error created the false impression that NAMI, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill--which you mistakenly referred to as the National Association for Mental Illness--considers feelings of being "specially connected to God" as a possible symptom of manic depression...