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Paloff's fellow Mather seniors also received a letter from the registrar's office last month saying their diplomas were invalid due to a printing error--the titles of House Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75 and Co-Master Leigh G. Hafrey '73 had been switched--and that the certificates had to be mailed back in exchange for correct ones...
According to Becella, the error was made when Harvard Printing and Publications Services, which produces diplomas for all Harvard graduates, changed to a new production process. Diploma data was shifted to a spreadsheet, where Naddaff and Hafrey's names got shuffled...
...only after the diplomas had been given to the students that the error was discovered, unfortunately," she said. upset about the mix-up, saying that the mistake "was not a big deal...
...give you an e-mail heads- up about what's due and when. Paper ones are scanned into cyberspace, so you can view the original documents online before authorizing payment. All three companies pledge to work with any biller and any bank and to insure losses due to error or fraud. They assert that all transactions are encrypted for security and that personal information is kept confidential...
...similar process of educated-guess-and-error led people to load up on the nutritional supplement beta carotene in the early 1990s. Scientists noted that those who eat lots of fruits and vegetables tend to get less cancer and speculated that carotenoids--the same antioxidant substances that seem to protect against heart disease--were responsible. In particular, they focused on beta carotene, the most abundant and common carotenoid, as the most likely to prevent cancer...