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...Nikorn isn't expecting his campaign to win easy victories. The causes of accidents are so varied?poor roadway design, unsafe vehicles, and human error among them. There are no quick-fix solutions. Yordphol Tanaboriboon, a transportation-engineering professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, says one of the few generalizations that can be made is that the high proportion of motorcycles on Thailand's roads (of the country's 26 million registered vehicles, 12 million are two-wheelers; according to Nikorn, there are another 6 million unregistered motorcycles) is linked to a higher death rate. As many...
...FleetCenter, a police officer cringed when he saw the error. The word among convention-goers was that the Post was destroying as many of the copies as it could...
That’s exactly the question that the newspaper wants us to ask. The Post published an article the next day entitled, “Washington Post Makes Printing Error.” Not a reporting error, or a Jayson Blair-esque fabrication of fact. Just a printing error...
Newspapers with the name “Post” have had difficulty remaining error-free in their election coverage. On July 5, the New York Post—a newspaper not nearly as renowned for its coverage of national politics as its Washington counterpart—became the laughingstock of the media world for a few days when it reported that “KERRY PICKS GEPHARDT” to be his running mate...
...error such as the Washington Post’s banner becomes problematic when it is part of a trend of careless mistakes and incorrect reporting. It may be a proofreader’s worst nightmare, but only in the sense that a dropped fly ball in a meaningless game is an outfielder’s worst nightmare. It gave the people at the FleetCenter a reason to laugh, but it’s not all that important...