Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sixth week as managing director of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team, Shingo Furuya, 56, ended a phone call to his wife Akiko with the word sayonara (goodbye) instead of his customary oyasumi (have a good night's sleep). Sensing something wrong, Akiko summoned a taxi and sped 300 miles from the family home in Ashiya, in southwestern Japan, to his hotel in Tokyo. By the time she arrived, early on the morning of July 19, Furuya had leaped from the staircase outside his eighth-floor room to the garden 92 feet below...
...several thousand trials, the computer activates only those circuits that produce the right answer. "It works just like a kid," says Farrokh Khatibi, senior product manager at AI Ware Inc., a 3 1/2-year-old neurocomputing company in Cleveland. "It learns and learns, and when you tell it what it did wrong, you hope, it won't do it again...
...what they eat can kill them. In the first ever Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, a 712-page document that draws on more than 2,000 studies, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop cautions that the U.S. population eats altogether too much, and too much of the wrong foods, especially saturated fats. Says Koop: "Your choice of diet can influence your long-term health prospects more than any other action you might take...
...results of the investigation infuriated Benveniste. He compared the probe to "Salem witch hunts and McCarthy-like prosecutions." Said he: "It may be that all of us are wrong in good faith. This is no crime but science as usual, and only the future knows." Maddox stuck by his final assessment, as well as by his earlier decisions to publish Benveniste's work and send the investigating team to Paris. But he added, "I'm sorry we didn't find something more interesting...
...mother. Last November Bianca wrote in her school journal, "I would like to say something nice to a special person, Mom. My mom always stand by my side when I needed her. My mom always love me, took very good care of me. And always teached me wrong to right. I always love my mother." Mother and daughter grew up together. In some respects, they were raised more as sisters than as mother and daughter. "We talk a lot, alone," says Sherri. "We are extremely close. I tell her things I tell no one else. And what I tell...