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...knew perfectly well that he had made only one. If some gray-haired bank teller had inadvertently given him a $1,000 bill, the Target would have given it back, but he did not feel quite so certain that he had a moral obligation to correct the computer's error. Perhaps it would be easier to be moral if the computer had given him only $10, but would it be utterly wrong to do nothing? With winter coming on and the furnace muttering in the cellar, the Target felt that he needed the $1,000 more than the computer...
...first step, which proved to be fairly easy, was to demonstrate that the manuscript had been in the Bodleian for centuries, that there was no possibility of its being a modern fake. No less important was the evidence that other works in the collection had been attributed without error to such poets as Robert Herrick and Ben Jonson. Then came the search for what Taylor calls "forensic evidence of a literary kind . . . stylistic fingerprints...
Desirée Bell has recognized her error and tried to give her son the extra attention he needs. Not all teenagers do. According to the Children's Aid Society in New York City, one of the oldest family agencies in the country, a large number of babies delivered to teenage mothers wind up in foster care. "Teenagers get excited about this little, adorable person that's all theirs," explains Barbara Emmerth of the New York City-based Citizens' Committee for Children, "but when the kid is in the terrible twos and the mother wants to go out on dates instead...
TIME regrets the error...
Such logic has repeatedly been challenged during the convulsions that have shaken China in this century. No one has proved more adept than Deng in staging tactical retreats, sometimes going so far as to make public confessions of error in which he almost certainly did not believe. He is, moreover, a dedicated Communist who does not question, publicly at least, the basic tenets of Marxism-Leninism. Yet in his patient but dogged style, Deng has continually tested the doctrine's outer limits. Says Rong Yiren, chairman of the China International Trust and Investment Corporation: "He is convinced that the basic...