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...embarrass. But last week Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 56, was red-faced about one of her own answers. In First Love: A Young People's Guide to Sexual Information, the country's most famous sex therapist missed an error that would make a publisher blush. The book, in the second paragraph on page 195, informed her teenage audience that it is "safe" to have sex the week before and the week during ovulation. The mistake, undetected until a New Jersey librarian pointed it out, forced Warner Books to recall all 115,000 copies issued since October. Warner will...
...waiting press corps, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes issued a one-paragraph statement, including the assurance that "all indications are that when the lab results are in they will confirm the President to be in excellent health." Next day the results were released: all the growths were found to be benign. That came as no surprise to Reagan. When he departed from the hospital the day before, he said he felt "just fine" and flashed the thumbs-up sign as he and Nancy boarded a helicopter and headed off to Camp David for the three-day weekend. MONEY Counterfeiting Made...
...Office’s renewed commitment to improving Harvard’s social scene—yet the Boston Globe story used the present tense to describe the poll’s implications and did not mention the survey’s date until the sixth paragraph...
Depending on the source, RSS will deliver the entire text of the story to your newsreader, or just the first paragraph or just the headline. In any case, clicking on a headline will take you straight to the full story via your web browser. Almost every major newspaper and news website has an RSS feed these days. (The Los Angeles Times and Denver Post are probably the most significant exceptions, and that's because they are working on advertising-driven newsreader software...
Flash forward to today, when the teachers' union has cited that very clause in its suit against the government. "I don't think you have to be a lawyer to say what that paragraph means," says Bob Chanin, general counsel for the NEA. "We'd be delighted to take on [the Department of Education]. If we get down to the merits, we think we clearly have the better of the case...