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I am always entertained when I find the consequence of spell checking without corresponding proofreading in books or in the newspaper. Today's online version of a Times Op-Ed piece was a pretty funny example:

For some years now, the Energy Department has been hoping to separate its wastes into two streams, reserving deep burial for only the part with high radioactivity. In the case of the South Carolina site, the department is prepared to pump most of the waste out of the tanks for disposal through deep burial. But it wants to leave a hard-to-remove residue of sludge in the tanks and bury it under grout.

Maybe it's just me but I find it hard to imagine that grout is the ideal encasement material for high level nuclear waste...