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Tadros and Al-Ississ describe the Palestinian riots of last week as follows: "55 Palestinians and 11 Israeli-Jews were killed during clashes between Palestinian civilians and certain elements of the Palestinian police on one side and the Israeli army on the other." The description itself is an egregious error of reporting, neglecting completely the point that the "certain elements of the Palestinian police" fired live ammunition at Israeli soldiers who were guarding their own checkpoints, when the Israelis had not fired on them. In some cases, Palestinian police roamed with the armed Palestinian mobs and shot into Israeli neighborhoods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter Distorts Information About Opening Israeli Tunnel | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...found their research a very competent piece of work," Mechner said. "While there is some error in measurement, unless there is some systematic bias, it shouldn't matter too much...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Randomization Study Confirms Stereotypes | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...procedure has produced healthy children for parents who were carriers of cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and other even rarer genetic conditions. But the procedure is still experimental, and mistakes can be tragic. At least one child has been born with cystic fibrosis as a result of laboratory error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO COAX NEW LIFE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...psychiatrists who treat patients are working hand in hand with the 'wet-brain guys'--the pharmacologists, chemists and molecular biologists," says Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland. While the effects of earlier psychiatric drugs were discovered largely by trial and error, the latest compounds are aimed at exact targets in the brain. "When you wanted to develop a new drug, you used to copy an old one that worked, add a little twist to the molecule and test it out on patients," explains Dr. Kenneth Davis, chairman of psychiatry at Mount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TARGETING THE BRAIN | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

From the Voter News Service exit poll of 16,338 participants. Margin of error is plus or minus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DECISIONS IN DETAIL | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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