Word: mistakenness
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When it comes to treating pain in children, the medical profession has a checkered history. Until the 1970s, the mistaken idea that babies do not feel pain was widely accepted, and infants undergoing major surgery were often given little or no anesthesia, just drugs to paralyze them temporarily. "The reluctance to use anesthesia was not due to doctors' being mean and nasty," Berde says. "There were real risks. It was an era when some babies did die from anesthesia, especially the ones who were very sick. So if you didn't know how to anesthetize them safely, it was easier...
...with finer and fairer values. But genes are barely less important today. There is, of course, the sensitive issue of intelligence. Many people think of the SAT as a genetic marker every bit as clinical as that contained in a syringe of blood. The folks who believe this are mistaken. But even the politically correct position--that "intelligence" is actually a bundle of different mental capabilities that people have in varying amounts, and that these capabilities can be strongly affected by environmental factors--leaves room for a large genetic component. Few Ashkenazi Jews, I suspect, would trade their genes...
...ANGELES-A group of students and non-University of Southern California(USC) professor were mistaken for Local 11 members as they gathered in Hahn Plaza Tuesday afternoon, sparking fury and complaints to the Department of Public Safety...
...everything," Vasily continued, "our economy, our affairs, our poor lives." He pushed himself away from the table, yanking the end of the tablecloth he had mistaken for a napkin and tucked into his trousers. As plates flew through the air and exploded on the floor all around him, a wheel of black bread bounced onto its edge and rolled slowly out the kitchen door...
Krauthammer is mistaken. If Israel backs away from the negotiating table now, the terrorists will have achieved their objective: interrupting the peace process. No one expects Israel to ignore terrorism or cease attempting to prevent it. But by suspending the peace talks, Israel will ensure that any effort to resume the negotiations will again be met with violence. If the talks continue, however, the terrorists' acts will be rendered futile. Negotiating with terrorists is "obscene," as Krauthammer says, but it is far better than a full retreat, which would mean the terrorists win. JONATHAN FONTENOT Lake Charles...