Word: slipups
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...have long since gone out with the trash. Without even that much of a clue, the best that authorities can do is look for forwarded letters, reinterview Frist staff members, examine suspicious mail the Senator has got over the years--and hope that a tip or a slipup puts the latest mad mailer out of circulation. --Reported by Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville and Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...forced to diagnose SARS cases on the basis of symptoms, such as high fever, that can be easily confused with other ailments. Some patients?particularly elderly ones, who often suffer a host of maladies?can go undetected. Toronto shows the damage that can be done with a single slipup. "It really tells you how unforgiving this disease is," says Dr. Allison McGeer, a microbiologist who heads Mount Sinai Hospital's infection-control department in Toronto...
...useful reminder that defeating terrorists as ruthlessly committed as bin Laden will require not just military firepower but also patience, guile and a good deal of luck. Says a top intelligence official: "You follow up as many leads as you can, and often it does depend on a slipup or a mistake. Eventually people come out of the woodwork." The U.S. has no choice but to wait...
After his "slipup," as Sanders calls it, he started attending drug treatment religiously. For three months he spent 16 hours a week doing custodial work in exchange for welfare. He still had trouble placating his five or six different "bosses," from parole to welfare to his mother. "I can do time. It's living I can't do," he said once. But he had moments of certain victory, like the time Janean gave him a tool kit for Father's Day--his first Father's Day gift ever--and the day his eldest brother trusted him with his phone number...
Gabriel Trevino did a bad, bad thing. Three years ago, at age 31, he fondled the 14-year-old daughter of a friend. For this "slipup," as he calls it, he pleaded no contest and took five years' probation rather than risk a two-to-20-year prison term. Now he thinks prison would have been preferable. These days, people drive by his modest bungalow house, then back up to read the 18-in. by 24-in. sign posted by the little white birdhouse. DANGER, it says. REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER LIVES HERE...