The White House response to the reports has been muted.
In recent years the annual rate of reports has been about 375.
This biography, as Milford reports, has been 30 years in the making.
But the debate over the reports has been not only perplexing but also misleading.
The response to the latest reports has been disappointingly inadequate and unrepentant.
Correction: The study which this article reports has been officially retracted.
Reyes had surgery to repair the torn hamstring tendon in October, and by all reports has been diligently rehabilitating since.
The plane that Wade Goetz rents to Denver broadcasters for traffic reports has been grounded since the attacks, costing him $10,000 a month in income.
Urdangarín, who according to reports has been sidelined by his royal father-in-law, will surely have lost whatever goodwill remained with these latest revelations.
Their goal, according to various reports, has been to clear black Africans from areas where oil is being produced or may be found.
And yet if this litany of negative reports has been a "public relations disaster", nobody seems to have told the public.
