Word: imperfectible
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...people who seek the predictability, perfection and control that they imagine cloning offers will be the least able to cope with a malformed, sickly or disabled child, which is a not an unlikely outcome. I fear that human cloning could create a third class of humans--the unwanted, imperfect results of people's ultimately selfish act of attempting to reproduce themselves. Society could face a grave problem with how to care for such individuals. DORIS ULLMAN-HINDRICHS Lynden...
...when the final chapter, an accounting of the music's past quarter-century, a hopeful peek into the future and a fond envoi, will close everything out in fine style. The mighty history Burns and writer Geoffrey C. Ward have wrested from all this material is many things, including imperfect. But on balance and at bottom, the series not only does jazz proud, it also rises to meet it. Jazz is great television about great music...
...report anything?--and if we get it wrong, well, whoops!, stuff happens. In exchange, you get a new transparency: unfiltered access, not just to source material (like the Starr Report, the decision almost immediately went online) but to the journalistic process. Viewers Tuesday got to see the messy, imperfect metamorphosis through which conjecture coalesces into fact. It was spellbinding. It was educational. But it sure didn't restore anyone's absolute faith in TV. Consider the final insult. After all that, we didn't even get to see Judging...
...case. Even the majority conceded that among the tens of thousands of uncounted "undervotes" and "overvotes" in Florida, there may be valid votes that simply did not register on the machines. It would be hard to hold otherwise, since the machines' designer had testified that the machines are imperfect and that the only way to get a full count is to examine the undervotes by hand...
...imperfect vote-counting system has proved that Americans are just human. Any claims of U.S. superiority now sound hollow. PRAVIN SHAH Addis Ababa...