Word: misguidedness
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With an endowment that suffered an $8 billion drop last October and a list of expenses that keeps on growing, it is no surprise that Harvard has been hunting for revenue sources to continue funding its essential programs. But one of these new ventures—Harvard’s...
More startling is the misguided attempt to move past the violence and push for a bipartisan health-care bill: the misdeeds and misfires of the so-called “Gang of Six.” Although an effort at bipartisanship is both necessary and appropriate, the Gang of Six...
Natascha Kampusch's story is perhaps even more troubling. The Austrian girl was abducted at age 10 and held for eight years in a windowless cellar by her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil. She ran away in August 2006. Yet upon learning that he had thrown himself in front of a train...
The staffers who sift through the 10,000 photos and videos that users submit each day never write their own jokes or even edit users' captions; they simply cull the best offerings. If something is funny but is a questionable fit for an existing site, they'll start a new...
The study's lead author, Kathryn Schmitz, an exercise physiologist, is betting that her research will change doctors' approach. "Hopefully this will be the last nail in the coffin for that kind of misguided advice," she says. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2008.)