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...have a less anatomically correct centaur. But most of the four-hour ceremony was pitched perfectly between reverence and glee, as some 10,000 athletes from 202 countries were introduced to 72,000 spectators and a couple of billion other people. It was just the kind of perfectly secured, glitch-free triumph that the Greeks needed to boost their confidence for the 16 days ahead...
Many of the students found out about the computer glitch after Adam M. Guren ’08 sent an e-mail on Saturday to a Yahoo group organized by Sergey Trishin ’05, which is designed to allow incoming first-years to interact with one another and have questions answered. The e-mail explained how one could obtain his or her temporary housing information by going...
...Provincial glitch • In our story on dissident Wang Dan, "The Exile and the Entrepreneur" [June 7], we incorrectly characterized Jinan as a province. In fact, Jinan is the capital city of Shandong province...
...with the $400 million-plus that NASA drops on each space-shuttle launch). But don't call your travel agent just yet. Melvill made it to just the edge of space, only about a quarter of the way to the International Space Station. And he ran into a scary glitch: during its ascent, SpaceShipOne lost its trim control, which keeps it from rolling and pitching. If the backup system hadn't kicked in, Melvill would now be a crater in the Mojave Desert. --By Lev Grossman
...bombshell, announcing it would recall 155,000 cars in Japan to repair 26 mechanical defects it had failed to report since 1993, despite its obligation to do so under Japanese law. The bugs ranged from defective air bags to faulty hoses that caused breakdowns and included a glitch linked to at least two vehicle fires. Management also admitted issuing memos to dealers asking them to quietly fix these flaws if customers brought their cars in for other repairs. Shortly after the disclosures, police arrested former Mitsubishi Motors president Katsuhiko Kawasoe on charges of professional negligence for failing to report...