Word: error
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poll had a margin of error of plus or minussix percent...
Sophomore Jaime Olenoski doubled to drive Crane in, and another Harvard error allowed tri-captain Jennifer Jenkins to reach base. Freshman Liz Curll then smashed a Koppel offering over the centerfield fence to give Holy Cross a 5-3 lead...
Trailing 16-13, the Crimson loaded the bases with one out in the top of the seventh when Huling singled, freshman shortstop Nick Carter reached on Clark's error and Keck walked. Bridich trotted in to replace Keck, who represented the tying run, and when Larocque pounded a double to the right-centerfield gap, Walsh had no qualms about waving him home...
...place for inept pilots. This is no place for ad hoc or reckless flying. There can be no excuses: there is no escape from this ultimate responsibility. There is no air-traffic controller, no guardian angel. Low-flying accidents are usually fatal and are always traumatic. In any pilot-error accidents that are survived, powerful, protective psychological forces are at work on the subconscious. Even before landing, the truth can be distorted in the minds of the flight crew. In the case of the Italian accident, this self-denial was taken all the way from the bloodied ski slopes...
That's what makes a report in the current Nature so promising. U.S. and European scientists have shown that patients can learn, by trial and error, to control a type of brain waves called slow cortical potentials. By hooking the patients up to a computer via an electroencephalogram, the researchers taught two ALS sufferers to mentally signal the computer to pick out letters on a screen, spelling out messages. The process is agonizingly slow--the average pace is about two characters a minute--but it should eventually improve. And compared with utter silence, it must seem blistering...