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...word by placing a dot over it (and by placing a dot over each letter of every proper noun to show that I had verified the spelling). In an article about the construction of the Panama Canal, for example, a caption read, "A seventy-five-foot-high canal lock gate swings shut at Gatun...
...only to look up "Gatun" in an atlas to verify the spelling (and to verify that it is actually a location on the Panama Canal), but also to find out whether the canal lock gate at Gatun is actually 75 feet high, and whether it is in fact swinging shut in the picture. Soon I was scanning through books about canal locks, searching through various technical reference manuals and finding absolutely nothing. A call to engineers in Panama was also no help. No, no, no, it's all wrong, they told me. The gate at Gatun is actually 77 feet...
...Huskies stormed out of the gate to start the game, earning a penalty corner in the first four minutes. But the Crimson (9-7, 4-1 Ivy) slowly built up its counterattack, so that by the end of the half things were dead even...
BORN: April 13, 1947, Los Angeles EDUCATION: California State U, Sacramento, B.S., 1979; Golden Gate U, M.B.A., 1985 FAMILY: Husband, Dennis; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Business consultant; software-company executive; hospital business manager POLITICAL CAREER: Democratic nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 730, Diamond Springs...
BORN: Oct. 27, 1952, Wilkes-Barre EDUCATION: Kings College, B.A., 1977; Golden Gate U, M.P.A., 1980; U.S. Naval War College, M.A. 1992 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army, 1970-75, 1977-96 OCCUPATION: Army officer (ret.) POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 166 Willow Street, Wilkes-Barre...