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...interview on C-SPAN, Harry Thomason,co-chair of Clinton's inaugural, admitted that hewould likely spend most of the week apologizing tohis superstar friends who lost tickets due tocomputer error, human oversight, purposefulslight, or all of the above...
...largest problem confronting the scientists is the sort of statistical error that bedevils political pollsters. For while physicists sometimes base discoveries on a single observation, more often they must rely on multiple events to build a case. Thus a second intriguing event, recorded by the Collider Detector in December, has come under especially intense scrutiny. The discovery of the top will no doubt emerge gradually, believes Peter Galison, a science historian at Harvard. "The expanding circle of belief," he says, "must start inside the experimental collaboration and then widen to include the whole physics community." How long this process will...
...reporting error, the cover article in the December 10, 1992 issue of 15 Minutes incorrectly attributed several comments regarding the Philosophy Department to Stephen Frug '94. The remarks were made by another undergraduate, who was not identified in the article...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 597 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 13 by Yankelovich, Inc. Sampling error is plus or minus...
...story appearing on page 3 yesterday was in error. The women's lacrosse team did, in fact, visit the White House after winning the NCAA championship...