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That's the bad news; the good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from...
...tell. It must be said, however, that the tapes are not very short. It's not five minutes of conversations. The opposition tactic has been to release more and more long tapes to prove that the recordings are not fake. And the government may have made a crucial error when they admitted that the voices on the tapes were those of Kuchma and other officials, and then fell back on the claim that the tapes had been completely reedited to have those voices say things they never actually said. The opposition believes it can easily verify that the tapes...
...Rumsfeld, of course, actually said "defenseless." But the Reuters error may be an inadvertent pointer to the fact that the administration is struggling to develop a coherent message on the issue. Washington's allies in NATO are opposed to the U.S. building even a limited missile shield aimed at the hypothetical missile capabilities of "rogue" states, out of concern that such a move would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty and prompt Russia and China to update and expand their own missile capability to compensate for their perceived strategic disadvantage if a missile shield is built...
...reliability to deter it from launching a preemptive strike anyway, just to be on the safe side. "A system of defense need not be perfect, but the American people must not be left completely defenseless," he said. Think about that one for a moment: Allowing for any margin of error in the functioning of a multibillion dollar system designed to stop the odd missile fired by a rogue state renders it pointless. It's rather like applying the "need not be perfect" standard to a condom...
...pretty much have to play excellent basketball from here on out," Prasse-Freeman said. "There's no margin for error. It's a feeling of desperation...