Word: flaws
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...administration has done nothing about this glaring flaw in education," Mansfield said in an interview Friday...
...Justice and Microsoft were moving toward compromise. But, Auletta reports, the state attorneys general--who had to sign off on the deal--took a harder line than Justice on what the remedy should be, causing the mediator, Judge Richard Posner, to throw up his hands. The book's main flaw is one of pacing: there's too much detail on the trial and too little on Judge Jackson's order to divide up Microsoft...
...biggest payoff may come from understanding the genetics of mental illness. Using gene-chip technology, a team at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine recently spotted the same mutation in the DNA of 10 schizophrenic patients. The flaw was in a gene on chromosome 1 called RGS4, which controls the duration of signals in a nerve cell. Intriguingly, the mutation showed up in the brain's visual, motor and cognitive centers. That could account for schizophrenics' hallucinations and attention problems, says team leader Pat Levitt...
...baseness is no replacement for innovation. The difference between the real innovators and Fox’s knock-offs demonstrates the real flaw in voyeurism as a marketing scheme: it self-destructs. The rush of novelty quickly dissipates and the threshold of curiosity creeps higher. At some point, terminal apathy sets in and a viewer becomes unshockable. The resulting cynicism among viewers, and their disconcerting attempts to recreate fantasy in a now dissatisfying life, seem undesirable if not outright destructive to individuals and society...
Although the Clintons can't take the butlers with them, they may well be taking the things that caused them so much trouble. Each Clinton has a character flaw that gets in the other's way. His is a sloppy self-indulgence. Hers is a haughty grandiosity--the tendency to think that because she is devoted to doing good, she is also entitled to do well. Biographer David Maraniss reports how she complained about not having a pool at the Governor's house in Little Rock. There wasn't a lot of surprise in Arkansas over the disclosure...