Word: mistakenness
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McFarlan identified four sources of the problem: data collected for one purpose being used for another; data being sold or exchanged; mistaken information entering the data network; and false information being disseminated deliberately out of malicious intent...
Perhaps. But here at Fifteen Minutes, we are anything but. Miserable wretches, most of us, clinging to some hope that writing for the mag will somehow serve as validation for our mistaken notions that we are cool...or at least cooler than the rest of the snivelling freaks that we imagine populate Harvard. But we are definitely not, with the possible exception of Molly and June, professionals...
Autoimmune diseases, such as arthritis and AIDS, are caused by the body's mistaken attacks on its own systems. In rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, the body's immune system causes swelling of joint linings. This inflammation damages bone and cartilage and can result in pain, loss of movement and eventual destruction of the joint...
Armstrong considers herself a feminist. But she argues that while it might not be right to call God exclusively "he," it is equally mistaken to regard God as "she." This makes God into a being. She notes, however, that much of the gender politics of God may come from the inflexibility of English. Other languages allow God to transcend sex. In Arabic, for example, the supreme name for God, al-Lah, is masculine, but his other names, "the Compassionate" (al- Rahmat) and "the Merciful" (al-Rahim), are feminine...
...with the P.L.O.'s failures, young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank have been radicalized, many of them embracing militant fundamentalist Islam. Conversely, Arafat was compelled toward moderation after the Soviet Union's demise deprived him of a superpower patron, and even more when his mistaken allegiance to Iraq over Kuwait cost him his bankroll from the gulf states. Without money, without visible progress in the two-year-old peace talks he had endorsed, fundamentalism's rise threatened to make him irrelevant...