October 2010
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No child has ever been killed by poisoned candy.... →
Like a Stinger missile against the flights of helicopter parents darkening America’s skies, here comes “America’s Worst Mom,” Lenore Skenazy, to debunk the multiple stranger danger myths that blend imagined fears with the vicarious ones kids used to be able to enjoy each Halloween:
Even when I was a kid, back in the “Bewitched” and “Brady Bunch” ...
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“The muddy red mud rose up until it covered the tiled front porch, leached in...”
– “Hungarians Raced to Escape Caustic Sludge,” The New York Times, Oct. 6, 2010 (online edition of story). Updated; see PPS.
So much to fix in one sentence. I count one homonym error, a needless up, two redundancies, a misuse of terminology (leach implies liquid passing through a porous...
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“His miniature pinscher, Rocco, was leashed next to Bugsy, a slightly larger...”
– “Dog Spat Leads to Fatal Stabbing,” Wall Street Journal, Oct. 1, 2010, p. A23 of the print version.
I don’t know if this was a matter of Word’s AutoCorrect, or merely a writer (or proofreader) in dire need of some touch therapy, but clearly they were looking for “Shih... 