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...selling stories about their private lives for money, I think it is as low as you can go.'' CALCUTTA: Arsenic Agony When villagers in the Indian state of West Bengal began drilling tube wells in the 1960s, they thought they would be drinking pure artesian H2O. They were mistaken. Since 1983, more than 100,000 cases of arsenic poisoning have been reported; the consequences range from skin discoloration to cancer--and death. The source of the poison? Apparently chemical changes in the bedrock caused arsenic, a naturally occurring element, to dissolve into the groundwater. The central government recently stepped...
Murphy also raised the point that there weremany victims to Lee's crime, includingticket-buyers who unwittingly funded Lee'sspending sprees, skaters who donated their timeunder the mistaken impression that they werehelping the Jimmy Fund and, finally, the childcancer patients for whom the money was intended...
There is more. Creative writing, almost by definition, requires of students that they critically evaluate their own lives or experiences. This notion of writing, when housed in the university, promotes the mistaken idea that education requires a turning inward into one's self, rather than outward towards the world...
Burnt Whole's set-up is a case of mistaken form-and-content parallel. The sterilization of mass memory is much more skilfully represented in specific pieces. The ICA's surgical ambiance serves only to deaden their effect. In the documentary, the art is more powerfully arranged on an exposed brick wall...
Some of the turmoil it gets into is the fault of mistaken reporters, heavy-handed editors or sloppy proofers. And some of it is the fault of students and administrators who don't agree with a given story because they're too biased about the issue, or because the opposing side was given any play at all. "Crimeds," especially reporters, put up with a lot of rudeness, abruptness, hostility and interference from the people they attempt to cover...