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...he’s not the only one. The main changes to the Wikipedia article which earned it its ‘disputed’ label were made by a “a current student” trying to dispel the “common misperception??that schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Stanford are pretty much interchangeable with Harvard.” (Harvard, he or she suggested, is in fact far better.)We also seem overrepresented in the numbers of our critics. In response to the section of the article in Wikipedia about how well...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Net Effects | 12/6/2005 | See Source »

...greater danger, however, may not be from the risks themselves, but from our failure to accurately identify which ones are really dangerous and which ones aren’t. Risk misperception??too much fear of lesser bogeymen and not enough fear of the bigger ones—leads to dangerous choices both by individuals and society...

Author: By David Ropeik, | Title: Risky Business | 5/23/2003 | See Source »

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