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Washington Times •computer error is blamed by after Web site of pairs a story headlined "36 Chicago area students killed sets record" with a photo of Malia and Sasha Obama, who currently attend school in Washington D.C. and weren't even mentioned in the article as it had nothing whatsoever to do with them...
...worth pointing out that this difference was within the survey's margin of error. That is, the decline could just be noise. But other news in the report - and evidence from other sources - points to a consumer-spending trend that is at best flat. Retail sales excluding automobiles, a better indicator of the underlying trend, were down 0.5%. March's overall sales decline was revised down to 1.3% from 1.2%. And so on. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...authors of the Science paper based their findings on early data from the H1N1 outbreak, estimating that about 23,000 people had been infected in Mexico by late April, with a fatality rate of about 0.4%. Those numbers come with a wide margin for error on either side, and there are still holes in the epidemiology that need to be filled, but the consensus is that the WHO's handling of H1N1 was reasonable. "Our research indicates that the WHO was justified in its actions in the early days," says Christophe Fraser, an epidemiologist at Imperial College and the lead...
...editing error, a paragraph was omitted from the online version of the May 5 article "HBS Group Helps Fight Foreclosures," which consequently did not identify former investment banker Brian McGinnis by his full name in the piece...
...afraid of her. And now he knows I was right to be afraid, that once he had made this dreadful mistake, he should not have run. But just then he was doing, I believe, what I was trying to do: hold on to our lives despite this awful error in judgment...