Word: failings
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These reactions fail to do justice to the wealth of excellent scholarship showcased at the symposium. Of course there were hits and misses; not all the panels were equally strong While much of the scholarship presented was highly creative, a fair amount of it was offbeat...
...actress and who still appeared in amateur theatricals when Frazier was a boy. He once saw her do Lady Macbeth: "I remember especially her lines about snatching the smiling infant from her breast and bashing its brains out." The only thing his parents did wrong, Frazier suggests, was to fail to prepare him for the loss of them...
...Although the majority of infants in the U.S. regularly see a doctor, research indicates that more than half the nation's babies fail to get all the vaccine shots they need during the first seven months of life. Many have no protection against spinal meningitis and whooping cough...
...women are not just under-represented in upper-level courses; Math 25, the class most students take if they fail to get into Math 55, has only "at least 10 women" in a group of 50, says Math 25 TF Larry E. Wilson...
Fascinating, surprising -- even shocking. But accurate? With any survey, there is a risk that respondents will exaggerate, omit facts or otherwise fail to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Especially on sensitive subjects like sexual behavior. There is also the risk that the sample will not represent a fair cross section. Both of these problems have plagued earlier sex surveys, including the landmark reports issued by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and '50s. The team from the University of Chicago that produced the new study was determined to do better...