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John Hoerr, a freelance journalist who wrote about the union for the summer 1993 issue of the American Prospect, said he was surprised that the University had appointed negotiators who were not experience with union relations in the second negotiations...
...often exaggerated figures are used deliberately to mislead, raise money or advance an agenda. "Many statistics are generated by people who have a vested interest," notes journalist Cynthia Crossen, who is writing a book on how numbers are manipulated. The American Cancer Society has said 1 in 8 or 9 U.S. women will develop breast cancer, though the frightening statistic is based on women having an unrealistically long life-span. Environmental organizations tend to present the most alarming scenarios to pump up the threat of global warming. Hard-line politicians and gun lobbyists frequently cite figures creating the impression that...
...returned to the museum hundreds of times, as an intern at Natural History magazine, as a journalist and as a happy gawker, and the exhibit never changed -- the same impressive dentition...
...saying peace would make cutting aid to Israel easier, right? Wrong. It's just the opposite. "Consider the northern front," explains Ze'ev Chafets, an Israeli journalist who served as spokesman for the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "If we give the Golan Heights back to Syria, we'll have to build expensive new defenses close by." Never mind that Israel could finance such projects itself; the post-peace game would be played differently. "If peace happens," says Chafets, "we'll be looking for more American money, not less -- just like we got from Jimmy Carter after we made peace...
Last summer a journalist named Bryan Appleyard rode this discontent to the top of England's best-seller lists with a neoconservative polemic called Understanding the Present, subtitled Science and the Soul of Modern Man. In Britain, the book inspired headlines such as FOR GOD'S SAKE FIRE THE BIG BANG BRIGADE. Its publication in the U.S. has begun to strike sparks. Science, maintains Appleyard, devalues questions it can't answer, such as the meaning of life or the existence of God. Its relentless advance has driven the magic out of the world, leaving us with nothing to believe...