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...Economists will debate forever how much Sept. 11 accounts for their error, but the attacks certainly accelerated the onset of a full-blown recession. The stock market's optimists are betting that the shock of it all will speed the recovery too. Sept. 11 made it impossible for overextended corporations to kid themselves anymore...
...That's the bad news; the good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from...
...Judge Guzman had previously ordered General Pinochet's arrest, but that order had been overturned by the Supreme Court on a technicality - Judge Guzman had failed to interrogate the suspect before indicting him, as required by Chilean law. Last week the judge set about rectifying his error by subjecting General Pinochet to an interview. And the general's answers to the judge's questions may contain some clues as to his likely fate...
WEIRD SCIENCE Last week it was revealed that a middle school science textbook used a photo of singer Linda Ronstadt to illustrate a silicon crystal doped with an arsenic impurity. For those who may have failed science, this was a mistake, a simple production error. But a new study from North Carolina State has found hundreds of flaws in more than a dozen texts. Hydrogen appears twice on a periodic table and is described as a nonmetal and an alkali metal. In another book, sound travels faster through warm air on page 422; 12 pages later, it's swifter...
...actual divisional setup, here is the tentative distribution that has leaked out. I would set the margin of error at three misplacements...