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...sumé next to my transcript declaring “Magic of Numbers.” It was also a fitting title for an English concentrator who spends much of her free time writing. In all my excitement, though, I somehow forgot one simple equation: Reading/Writing + Children + Summer = ERROR...
...Resource Center in Orlando was the first in the U.S. to be licensed to use the DriveABLE method. Aided by touch-screen computers, drivers are evaluated on judgment, decision making and attention shifting. Next, on a 40-min. road test--always the same course--a driving instructor marks each error a driver makes. A computer program then separates normal errors, like forgetting to signal a turn, from abnormal ones, like stopping at a green light. At the Orlando center, about 70% of those tested so far--many of them referred because of Alzheimer's--have failed. About 20% have been...
Although the little boy escaped with no permanent damage, his parents' faith in the hospital was not easily restored. But then something unusual happened: the administrators and the family's doctors said they were sorry, explained how the error happened and offered to help with Owen's growing medical bills. The Olsons soon gave up thoughts of legal action. "They have been wonderful about everything," says Trish. "We were angry, but we're not anymore." Dr. Phil Kibort, the hospital's vice president of medical affairs, says, "When I went to medical school, I didn't plan on doing this...
...bodies are riddled with quirks that no competent engineer would have planned but that disclose a history of trial-and-error tinkering: a retina installed backward, a seminal duct that hooks over the ureter like a garden hose snagged on a tree, goose bumps that uselessly try to warm us by fluffing up long-gone...
...more complicated than simply slaloming down a ski slope. The spacecraft's engines are shut off for good once it leaves orbit, meaning its descent is powerless. Flying a brick with wings, as the engineers have often called the ship, has a very fine margin of error. Lose your purchase on the air and go into a spin, and there's almost no way to pull out of it. "The attitude needs to be very, very precise," says Thagard. "You can pick up heat so fast you get a breakup...