Word: sloppyness
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Now the EPA is cracking down on sloppy work. Last week the agency filed suit against 34 organizations and individuals in eleven states, charging them with failure to notify the government of their work or handling the asbestos in a dangerous manner. Among the accused: the New York City Board...
For 40 years the nation's nuclear weaponry has provided enough security to allow Americans to sleep better at night. But there is now chilling evidence that the custodians of the nation's atomic arsenal have all the while also kept their eyes closed -- not in sleep but in egregious...
In mid-October, Harvard watched as it took only two sloppy snaps to give Cornell a 19-17 victory at The Stadium. By mid-November, the Big Red was 8-2 and Ivy champs. Harvard was 2-8 and sharing sixth place with Columbia.
"Their experimental method was pretty sloppy," said Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac F. Silvera, who is leading a Harvard team checking the fusion results. "And I don't like the idea of announcing in the press before publishing. It's not the way to do science."
In Baltimore the physicists proclaimed their answer: no way. After weeks of thorough experimentation, researchers from numerous prestigious institutions, including M.I.T., Caltech, Yale and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reported that they had found no evidence of "cold" fusion. The scientists seemed incensed that they had wasted their time trying to...