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...night to accommodate this week's cover story. We are used to stretching our deadlines occasionally in order to include late-breaking major news, but covering Sunday's showdown in St. Louis, Missouri, required considerable last-minute coordination and planning. Like the candidates, we had virtually no margin for error...
...countries will join in using the year 2000 on their civil calendars, despite the number's Christian basis. Paradoxically, although Jesus' actual birth date is unknown, it is almost certain that he was born several years "before Christ." This anomaly occurred because of an error in the calculations of Denis the Little, the 6th century monk who decided that history should be split into...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 800 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on July 22-23 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...
Back to the Cambridge bank. The clerk there dialed a telephone number, uttered a few passwords and then returned to tell me that I had an "invalid" Social Security number. By this time, I'd forgotten about the original error in my license, but I was captivated by the phrase, "invalid Social Security number." The woman refused to permit me to open an account. Get this: A bank, of all places, declined to accept my $3,000 because I had "an invalid Social Security number...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,400 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Sept. 22-24 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...