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According to Faludi's acknowledgements, Backlash began as a story for the San Jose Mercury News's Sunday magazine debunking an unpublished academic study by David Bloom, a Harvard economist, and Patricia Craig, a Yale graduate student, purporting to show that never-married college-educated women faced, at age 30, only a 20 percent chance of getting hitched in their lifetimes.
The Los Angeles Times lead is a poll putting George W. Bush first among Republican voters and Elizabeth Dole second, and purporting to show that each right now would beat Al Gore.
The professor adduces some statistics for his side purporting to show that the availability of concealed weapons lessens the occurrence of what he calls "multiple-victim public shootings."
The lumber-byproduct media have reported with glee a study out of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh purporting to show that spending time on the Internet tends to make people more lonely and depressed.
Closer inspection of the illustration accompanying the piece, purporting to be of Clinton's schedule for one week in June 1996, reveals that it is deeply deceptive.