Word: error
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...first Tim Barnett did not believe his own data. "I thought it was an error in the computer code," says the climate researcher at California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. For one thing, the little-known phenomenon his model was predicting had not been witnessed since the mid- 1970s. By last summer, however, Barnett's forecast was borne out by a "monstrous" 7 degreesF plunge in ocean surface temperatures off * equatorial South America. The drop heralded the arrival of a mysterious weather pattern called La Nina, which brings unusually cold temperatures to the eastern Pacific. La Nina has since swept...
Older biochemical tools, which have progressed from simple blood typing to analyzing specific enzymes and proteins, are crude by comparison. With the best combination of such methods, the chance of making a matching error is one in 1,000. DNA, however, is unique for each individual, and a matchup between a crime-scene sample and material obtained from the accused (usually in a blood sample) is virtually unassailable, say experts. Declares John Huss of Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Md., another DNA-testing firm: "Except for identical twins, one in 4 trillion or 5 trillion people might share the same genetic...
Manchester ends his narrative in June 1940, when even Chamberlain had to admit his error, when France had fallen and the new Prime Minister, Churchill, addressed his imperiled country with an eloquence that was an army in itself. "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour...
...with what sources said were private soundings taken for the two candidates. Only 35 percent of those reponding to the public survey said they were pleased with their choices, and 61 percent said they wished other candidates were running. The survey, of 1285 likely voters, had a margin of error of three percentage points...
...after students brought their grievances, and only a little bit of hemming and hawing, the Core committee and the dean acknowledged their error and corrected it. It was really that simple...