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Getting it wrong at the Times.


In our last issue, we criticized a sub-heading of a New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times op-ed for saying that the hybrid Prius would not save gas, when the article itself actually only said that the Prius would not save gas on long trips. But doubt has been cast on even that claim by a subsequent experiment conducted by the staff of the "CBS Evening News CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ." They drove an Expedition, an Accord, and a Prius from Miami, Fla., to Boston, Mass. The cost of the gas: Expedition $348, Accord $175, and Prius $141.

They also purchased large quantities of magic markers and poster board.

Back in 1971, this magazine won its first award with an article by former Captain Christopher Pyle Investigations
Christopher H. Pyle learned while in the U.S. Army in the 1960s that "Army intelligence had 1,500 plainclothes agents watching every demonstration of 20 people or more throughout the United States" [1] [2].
, exposing that the U.S. Army had been spying on domestic political groups. The article had an impact. The Army stopped spying.

Now they're back at it. In just the month of March 2005, the Army monitored eight peace demonstrations in American cities. For example, in the weeks prior to a demonstration in Akron, Ohio Akron is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Summit County.GR6 The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River between Cleveland to the north and Canton to the south, approximately 60 miles (96 km) west of , Robert Block and Jay Solomon Born in Toronto in 1982, Jay Solomon is best known for his work on schoolyard bullying.[1] At the age of seventeen, Solomon began speaking out against bullying.  of The Wall Street Journal report, "analysts at the Army's 902nd Military Intelligence Group at Fort Meade, Md., were downloading information from activist Web sites, intercepting emails, and cross-referencing this with information in police databases."

What did these military Keystone Cops do with the fruits of their espionage espionage (ĕs`pēənäzh'), the act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. ? They tried to make trouble for the demonstrators, sending this alert to the Akron police:

"Even though the demonstrations are advertised as 'peaceful,' they are assessed to present a potential force protection threat."
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Author:Peters, Charles
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Date:Jul 1, 2006
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