Word: faults
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...interactive multimedia (imagine watching the Super Bowl and clicking on a player to see his stats), cable modems that speed Internet delivery and audio software that makes your PC sound like the local THX multiplex. Grove has reviewed dozens of battle plans for the company and finds the same fault with them all: not radical enough...
...Wild and wacky Marv Blame the Victim, Part II: sportscaster Marv Albert pleaded guilty to biting a woman during sex, then told Barbara, Katie and Dave it was the woman's fault. Albert ignored the first law of celebrity: being famous allows you to do all the naughty things you ever wanted; it also makes it a lot more likely you'll get caught...
This is not to say that Your Own Thing's main fault is lack of originality. Rather, it stretches Twelfth Night's plot thin and destroys the original play's unity by neglecting important themes and literary nuances. Music, for example, is surprisingly subordinate to the plot. It is convenient that the main characters are musicians and musical agents for the purpose of fitting in songs, but music fails to be the full-bodied theme it is in Twelfth Night. Viola's name is, after all, a pun on the name of the musical instrument, and Twelfth Night opens with...
...There has been an ongoing investigation in the deans office," MIT spokesperson Robert J. Sales said yesterday. "If we find that people are at fault, there could be severe consequences...
...another fertility-boosting procedure sounds almost as if it came from science fiction. Researchers know that older women's eggs are less fertile than those of younger women, and suspect that the fault lies not in the chromosomes but in the biological machinery that controls cell division. To test this idea, Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of reproductive endocrinology at New York University Medical Center, and his colleague, Dr. John Zhang, have microsurgically transplanted the chromosome-containing nuclei from older women's eggs into younger women's eggs from which the nuclei have been removed. The transplants took, and while...