Word: error
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the defense had neglected to talk to the highway patrol officers who had investigated the scene, who testified that they set up the perimeter themselves. The prosecution capitalized on the error, dismissing the Vietnam scenario as a ludicrous ploy, and Johnson got the death sentence. The majority on the Missouri Supreme Court considered the defense's preparation good enough to let the result stand, because their mistake was not the "most likely" reason for the verdict and sentence...
...grander scale of things, this more resembles accounting error and poor planning than it does fraud in my book," Hardt said...
...translators since the last words of the Egyptian flight crew were likely in Arabic. And if in fact there was no mechanical problem, what went wrong? Did an intruder succeed in wrecking the plane? Or did the pilot himself somehow send the plane down, either through some kind of error or even deliberately? In the end, the questions may outnumber the answers provided by the cockpit audio...
That will have enormous practical consequences. Your genetic profile, recorded on a chip, will let doctors--or, more likely, their computerized diagnostic tools--determine your exact level of risk for a particular disease and which proteins and enzymes your body lacks. There will be no more wasteful trial and error, with costly pills winding up in the trash because they produced unwelcome reactions or didn't work for you. Instead you'll get customized prescriptions, created to "fit" on the very first try, like a Savile Row suit...
...brokering services on the Internet, we can generalize the principle that governs garage sales: One person's garbage is another's treasure. When that attitude goes global, the human beings of the third millennium may be able to look back on their former garbage-producing ways as a forgivable error of their youth as a species...