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...match was close from the opening minutes, with the Crimson able to come away with a 47-45 victory in the first set, during which neither team was able to establish momentum. Each time one team had a kill or caught a lucky break from an attack or service error, the other would respond with the same on the next play. Kuld’s finishing abilities were constantly being called upon, as the senior finished the set with 10 kills...
...attack errors were mistakes the Gulls quickly corrected in the second set, as they stormed to a 30-19 victory. Harvard kept it close for the first 20 points before Endicott went on a five-point run, taking advantage of a service error and two attack errors. Coach Brian Baise called a timeout, and play evened from that point, but the Crimson was never able to recover...
What's wrong with the IPCC? To some degree, it's a victim of its own size. In a group as large as the IPCC, producing climate-assessment reports in excess of 1,000 pages - exclusively with voluntary labor - errors are going to be inevitable. Humans make mistakes and the IPCC has owned up to its error, says Richard Somerville, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a lead author on the 2007 IPCC report...
IPCC supporters point out that the global body does a self-assessment after every major report, looking at what went wrong and what can be improved. Communication will be key - in the case of the mistake about the Himalayan glaciers, some glaciologists have said they knew about the error and tried to alert the IPCC before publication, but were unable to get it fixed. There will inevitably be improvement as the IPCC moves forward, says Bob Corell, a scientist with the Arctic Governance Project and the Global Environment and Technology Foundation. Each time it gets better...
...said that the IT workers had been using a random name to check out the system during an experimental phase. “They forgot to take it out when the system was running," he said. "‘David Faux’ is just a little error; it’s not something to worry about...