Word: fallouts
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...theory -- that his tantalizing claim lured generations of mathematicians into attacking the problem. They failed, but in the process, says University of Illinois * mathematician Lee Rubel, they "generated an awful lot of extremely important and powerful mathematics -- it has been a seed for major developments." In fact, the mathematical fallout from Fermat's theorem has turned out to be more significant than the original theorem itself. For decades, Fermat's Last Theorem has been a kind of backwater in math, its significance more symbolic than real. It would most probably be solved in the course of addressing some broader problem...
...Part of expressing your opinion is being a grownup and putting your name on it," Wareing says. "It's duplicitous to say, 'I want all the benefits but don't want to suffer the effects of the fallout...
...parents and educators watch the fallout from nearly a decade of lessons geared to disaster prevention -- here is a diagram of female anatomy, this is how you put on a condom -- there are signs that this bloodless approach to learning about sex doesn't work. Kids are continuing to try sex at an ever more tender age: more than a third of 15-year-old boys have had sexual intercourse, as have 27% of 15-year-old girls -- up from 19% in 1982. Among sexually active teenage girls, 61% have had multiple partners, up from 38% in 1971. Among boys...
...inner cities the scarcity of jobs and hope for the future invites kids to seek pleasure with little thought for the fallout. "You'd think AIDS would be a deterrent, but it's not," says Marie Bronshvag, a health teacher at West Side High School in upper Manhattan. Their lives are empty, she observes, and their view of the future fatalistic. "I believe in God," says student Mark Schaefer, 19. "If he wants something bad to happen to me, it will happen. Anyway, by the time I get AIDS I think they'll have a cure...
...bring economic devastation to the area," said Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, which is scheduled to lose its Charleston Naval Station. But Congress has cleverly set up a system that allows the Pentagon to push through its closures while insulating legislators from much of the responsibility or political fallout. In 1990 it established an eight-member bipartisan commission to review Pentagon proposals. If the President approves the commission's recommendations, Congress must consider the package as a whole and can reject it only by a majority vote in both houses...