There can be no better bedside collection for anyone who is interested in the history of America and the world in the second half of the 20th century—or in a life lived bravely.Correction: The uncorrected proofs of this book had a mis-print that suggested Moynihan's mother called him Dan, whereas everyone else knew him as Pat.
In decisions on three other recent cases, the court has gone the other way.The key disability case before the court concerned two short-sighted sisters who had been turned down for jobs as pilots with United Airlines because they did not meet its corporate standards for uncorrected vision.
But to outsiders they will appear part of the scientific canon.Blame the refThe idea that there are a lot of uncorrected flaws in published studies may seem hard to square with the fact that almost all of them will have been through peer-review.
The decision means, for example, that United Airlines can impose its own rule for uncorrected eyesight, more stringent than federal guidelines, if the rule is reasonably related to a job requirement.In this section Anyone not included?
A study of some 20,000 children in rural China, for instance, found that 24% of primary school students suffered from reduced uncorrected vision in either eye and 16% in both eyes.
If it is not attributed and accepted where it is due (as it may well be for some of those well-meaning outsiders involved in the Baby P case), failings go uncorrected.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukNOT too many writers, on the strength of just two novels, could have a couple of readers fighting over a precious uncorrected proof copy of his latest book, each one waiting until the other was asleep in order to snaffle it.
Mr Modi let that go uncorrected.
Cross-fertilization of literature and the arts now takes place more subtly, mostly in the use of parallel techniques the rational dissociation of the Cubists or the spontaneous action painting of the Abstract Expressionists, for example, which flourished at the same time as the free-flowing uncorrected narratives of some novelists in the 1950s and '60s.
Experience teaches that some errors will survive uncorrected in the published version.
It is to be noted that the five Seidel aberrations represent the largest and most conspicuous defects that can arise in an uncorrected optical system.
