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CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 800 Americans taken for TIME/CNN on March 18 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 800 Americans taken for TIME/CNN on March 18 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
...quote John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race....If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: If wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error...
...pored over the blueprints and tools used to make the mirror. Eventually, they zeroed in on a complex device called an interferometer, which was used to measure the curve of the mirror's surface. They found that the instrument had been assembled incorrectly and that the mistake matched the error calculated by the other team: Hubble's main mirror was deformed by less than one-fiftieth the thickness of a human hair...
...Crimson struggled with its accuracy early in the match, but for every unforced error that Harvard made, its less athletic opponents made another...