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...story about preliminary data on laboratory animals spiral so completely out of control? The key is Kolata's piece in the Times and the prominent placement her editors gave it. "Within a year," she began, "if all goes well, the first cancer patient will be injected with two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer, with no obvious side effects and no drug resistance--in mice." It was a sentence that couldn't help grabbing readers' attention--despite those critical two words, "in mice"--and holding it throughout the rest of the story...
Kolata stood by her story--as did the Times. "We are entirely comfortable with the coverage and the placement of the article," says Nancy Nielsen, a spokesperson for the newspaper. As for Watson's quote: "We don't wish to get into a quarrel with a respected scientist, but we are confident in the accuracy of our story...
Although the poster in question had been hanging in Lowell House for at least four years, its placement was inconspicuous and the students and tutors I spoke with said they barely ever noticed it. But when people began to complain, the poster was immediately replaced with an innocuous watercolor. As Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 explained to me, there was no need to have a poster that offended somebody hanging in the dining hall, especially one without any monetary value...
...holes are heavily treed and feature uneven terrain that made accurate tee-shot placement a challenge for those without an intimate understanding of the layout...
...hour from his home. They took note of the fact that as his English improved, so had his grades. And translating for his parents, as the boy frequently did, had given him an interest in language generally. That had led him to take and do well in advanced-placement Japanese. Send the kid a thick envelope...