Word: error
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...vandals succeeded in virtually shutting down the giant web site for three hours yesterday, as the company's servers struggled to deal with the hooligans' calculated onslaught of mock information requests, or "smurfing." Users who tried to log on to the site were met with frustration and error messages...
...classes and check the registrar's website for our fall semester grades. Amazingly, Harvard seemed to not expect this huge increase in Internet traffic volume on the section and registrar sites. Both sites have been nearly impossible to use. They tantalized students with the login screen but displayed strange error messages, making students wonder for the 47th time whether they typed their ID number correctly. These sites were set up to make everybody's life easier, but have become another frustration amongst the many others during shopping period...
Students trying to access fall semester grade reports or section for courses on-line yesterday found slow servers and error messages at the College web sites...
...will be. Venter has acknowledged that Celera's will contain some gaps, especially in the so-called repeats--long stretches of DNA with virtually identical sequences. Genome Project scientists once argued that because they have an easier time sequencing the repeats, their finished map would be more complete and error-free. They have since discovered that many regions throughout the chromosomes are unreadable even with their technology, and they are now forced to acknowledge that their product will have large gaps as well...
...imitate the weather in running to extremes: Thus, for example, we insult the past by overestimating the present's enlightenment and wonders, denigrating much of what came before; or else, reversing the error, we insult the present by imagining it to be dramatically worse (more depraved, for example, more satanic, even) than the past was. I'll have the best of times, please, but if those are not available, make it the worst of times...