Word: mishaps
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Although health clubs across the country have come to recognize treadmills as the preferred aerobic exercise machine, we at Harvard are not fooled by their deceiving advantages. They do not come close to the wonderful bikes whose seats collapse as you sit down. The timing of this embarrassing mishap usually occurs just as someone attractive steps into the room and glances your...
...hospital, is written as an anguished letter to her daughter, who suffered from porphyria--a metabolic disorder that is rarely fatal. "They told me she would wake up in a week or two," the writer says. But months passed at Paula's bedside before Allende learned that a hospital mishap had caused irreversible brain damage. "It was destiny--and it was bad luck. After they told me, I went on writing because I could not stop. I could not let anger destroy...
Wang's acquittal means that no Air Force officer will face anything but the mildest penalty. "This mishap was not the result of any one individual's actions," Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall says. "The conduct of numerous officers and the system itself contributed...
GLOVEMAKERS O.J. trial goofs and White House guard mishap with gays aren't the best...
Theconfidential reportby Alan Diehl, the Air Force's former top civilian safety official, includes 30 cases of mangled military probes and cover-ups by "incompetents, charlatans and sycophants." Over the past three years, it says, the Air Force mishap rate increased by more than 30 percent while the Navy and Army rates have decreased by 40 percent and 50 percent...