Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...living in about the safest times in human history, yet people seem to be more afraid than ever before," says Barry Glassner, a sociologist and the author of The Culture of Fear. "This book works right off the prevailing ethos that you should be afraid of all the wrong things." A sequel is expected next year. The Worst-Case Scenario Travel Handbook will cover such things as hostage situations and civil unrest. Meanwhile the Survival Handbook is generating other spin-offs, including a calendar that lists such notable milestones as when the first blood transfusion was administered and when Nancy...
...Numerous factors including nonexistent prenatal care, malnourishment and unsanitary delivery conditions jeopardize the health of mothers and babies. "It's impossible to predict complications," says D'Harcourt. "That's the difficulty with maternal mortality. You can't predict what will go wrong. Certainly, quality of care and treatment play a huge role here." What that means is that even when complications ensue, with the right medical care, lives can be saved. But in Rwanda, where the causes of infection run the gamut from dirty swaddling cloth to unclean razors used to cut umbilical cords, lack of even the most rudimentary...
...opened corridor in the ice and fanned out in all directions. Within 500 years, their descendants had settled most of the hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America. Alas, as archaeologists have learned by digging up and down the Americas, this engaging tale may be wrong...
Clearly, DANA GIACCHETTO went into the wrong business. Had he chosen to be a talent agent instead of a money manager, his unscrupulous business practices and knack for attracting famous clients would have augured a bright future. Instead, last week, Giacchetto, 37, was hit with civil and criminal charges for allegedly looting millions of dollars from the accounts of his high-profile roster of actors, artists and musicians. He faces up to 20 years in prison. During the past several years, armed with charm and advantageous connections, Giacchetto managed to accumulate clients such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Courteney...
This selective fiddling with history constantly distracts the reader from the fictional surface of Oates' narrative. When a detail looks wrong, at odds with what is known, is Oates inventing it (and if so, to what purpose?), or has she simply made a mistake? Why does she put a video camera in the hands of a fan in 1954? Why does she have the ex-Athlete, musing on his baseball career, think of "playoffs and the Series" when playoffs would not occur until 15 years later...