Word: incorrection
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...them play combines croquet with tiddledywinks. But they know the rules. Alerted by the whistle blowers, P.G.A. tour officials penalized Stadler two strokes for innocently "building a stance" with his flat towel and then disqualified him entirely because the scorecard he had signed the day before was now incorrect. Some might say the punishment fit the crime no better than the pants fit the criminal, but when did the rub of the green ever have anything to do with grass stains...
...mother of a teenage daughter. In 1983 she embarked on a "sexually indiscriminate" period of her life during which she had about 15 sexual partners. "I never gave a thought to AIDS," recalls Kris. "I didn't even know there was a threat." After two frustrating years of incorrect diagnosis, the disease was finally identified, first as AIDS- related complex, then as AIDS. She does not know who gave her AIDS or whom she might have infected. "I am sure I have passed on the virus. I can't get in touch with him. If I could...
...looking hockey player, that Lane MacDonald...and he scores," was how they described the first goal of freshman defenseman McCormack's career--which in fact was tipped in by MacDonald. The announcers quickly changed their call to credit McCormack with the score, inadvertantly switching the correct call to an incorrect...
Other useful attachments are grammatical checkers and outlining programs. Grammatical checkers can discover some incorrect syntax, although they are far from perfect. Outlining programs allow authors to develop outlines for essays and to then modify an essay's structure by experimenting with various alternative outlines (again, look for an upcoming Hacker column on this...
UNETHICAL CONDUCT AMONG politicians--even those in high executive office--or Wall Street traders may call for an investigation. And the procedures are fairly well-defined, because wheeling and dealing is all part of the game. But disclosure of fraud in science is another story. The recent retraction of "incorrect" research by scientists in the laboratory of Ellis L. Reinherz at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has made it clear that the procedures for coming to grips with such fraud need to be better defined...