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According to Bob Haiman, a former executive editor at the St. Petersburg Times, several recent improvements at national newspapers serve as proof that newspapers can improve, including a pilot program at the Chicago Tribune that tracked every error in the newspaper and the reason that they occurred. In five years, the paper was able to reduce mistakes by 50 percent...
...crap out of those who use said phrase). Just about everyone has to put up with a Bill Lumbergh-like boss, who incessantly sends memos about asinine things like TPS reports. Just about everyone is frustrated by fax machines and the “PC LOAD LETTER” error message. Just about everyone has a Milton—the deranged loner who is given odd jobs to keep him busy. And just about everyone has a Samir or a Michael Bolton—co-workers who become friends through shared agony and disdain of repetitive and seemingly pointless work...
...central to his life's work. He can't carry on his experiments because, he laments, the human-trained orangutans are "intellectual paupers from the dark ages." Short of a miracle, though, these dark-agers, thrust into small patches of remaining forest to bumble around, surviving by trial and error, will soon be all that remains of a once-proud, possibly cultured species...
About the poll: From a telephone poll of 1,031 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on May 23-24 by Harris Interactive. Sampling error plus or minus 3.1%. "Not sures" omitted...
...rolling down the third-base line for a double. (Typical of the way he has helped manufacture runs since Opening Day, when he keyed a game-winning rally with a bunt single, Ichiro took third on a wild pitch and then scored on second baseman Alfonso Soriano's throwing error...