here's a quote from an April 2, 2002 AP story as carried on Yahoo! News: "Ryan has not bee with wrongdoing." Here's another, later in the same story: "Falwell and others were behind the creation of false documents in the secretary of state's offic justify pay raises..." I'm not picking on the Associated Press. Read on screen, those two sentences made perfectly good sense--but in Yahoo!'s "printer-friendly" format, more than an little something's missing. More than you see here, actually: on the printed page,half of the second "e" in "bee" and half of the "c" in "office" are also missing. By the time this column appears, Yahoo! may have discovered that its "printer-friendly" format is oxymoronic, but that will leave too many other Web sites that get in the way of the most natural thing a reader does with good Web content: print it. Some DISCONTENT columns cover oddities, exaggerate to make a point, or deal with issues I find amusing.
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