"He flunked," Mr. Butler said, and that was the ice-pick of information he used to chip at Mr. Jones that night on Highway 51. "He confessed to me" that night, and continued to confess to other investigators, leading to charges against all three men.
The early 1950s were a time of hysteria, and seeing how the intelligence agencies have operated in recent years as well as the cherry-picking of information by the administration, one can understand how the unjust rush to judgment of the Rosenbergs occurred.
During an election year when presidential candidates on both sides pay little attention to Latin American politics and issues, unless it concerns the immigration debate, the cherry picking of information shared on major media outlets is troubling.
Almost every new country I've ventured into, I've picked up some great piece of information online, plenty of times from non-experts.
The asymptomatic nature of the infection resonated with respondents and was the commonest piece of information they picked up from their participation in the study.
Watch this afternoon to see whether any inquiry member picks up on one new piece of information Blair did let drop this morning: that there were "conversations" with Israelis during the infamous Crawford meeting with George Bush in April 2002.
In each simulation run, we randomly picked a spreader with a piece of information r and then selected its k neighbors according to a selection criterion presented in Section 'Neighbor selection schemes', where the content interestingness ϕ(r) was randomly drawn from the normal distribution with the mean of 0.0136 and the standard deviation of 0.0501, according to real data [19].
Turns out a piece of information was misinterpreted, picked up by a bunch of news sources and made its way to us.
Sometimes one can pick up fragments of information indirectly from different sections of the F.B.I.
Whereas on a computer screen, we tend to pick out bits of information and link them for ourselves.
"I know people who pick up bits of information and send out a daily email, that sort of thing," the punter said.
