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...representatives from the Princeton Review said that the error had been discovered four weeks ago and it was being fixed before Kaplan even called it to their attention. The Princeton Review said it has corrected versions of the book and software at the printers and they should be on shelves by next month...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaplan Sues Princeton Review in False Advertising Claim | 9/18/1997 | See Source »

Many very modern students have positive religious views which embrace both modesty and deep respect for one's colleagues. To portray these students as judging, or having contempt for their "modern" classmates is an error. Zachary L. Shrier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Five Not Guilty of Judging Peers; Following Their Beliefs | 9/17/1997 | See Source »

...Thompson backs this up: ?This rash of accidents in a short space of time is simply a coincidence,? he says. Still, it can't hurt to take the planes down and go through safety procedures with the recruits: Investigators believe most of the recent crashes were caused by pilot error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Defends Air Record | 9/17/1997 | See Source »

...once again become a battleground in America's education wars. This school year, nearly half of all American elementary students are expected to learn math the way children do at Fernangeles Elementary: not in neat rows of desks, repeating times tables and memorizing theorems, but through trial-and-error problem solving, often in groups with little direct instruction and almost always with a calculator nearby. Advocates call it "interactive" or "inventive" math and insist that it sets American schoolchildren on the way to becoming "mathematically powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS IS MATH? | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

Boarding pass? Check. Two forms of ID? Check. Remove pistol from carry-on? Well, ah... Last week Dallas Cowboy coach Barry Switzer joined thousands of Americans--and dozens of celebrities--in making the silly error of carrying a gun through an airport metal detector. Like most, he'll probably get a hand slap (he was charged with a misdemeanor last week), not the two to 10 years and $10,000 fine the third-degree felony can pack. How to explain the slip-up? Fast thinking, contrition and imagination. Here are some of the most creative excuses from illegally armed celebs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 18, 1997 | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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