Word: logic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next wave of fad diets base their low-carb logic on even stranger theories than insulin or food combining. Peter J. D'Adamo's book Eat Right 4 Your Type advocates diets tailored to your specific blood type. Type O's get to eat red meat. Type A's aren't as lucky; they're stuck with mostly vegetables and fruits. Type A's, however, get to keep using their arteries. D'Adamo sells vitamins for each body type and claims he has got the already skinny Elizabeth Hurley, Hugh Grant and Andy Dick to buy into his logic...
...engineers at Intel and NEC noticed that there was something funny about the chips they were building to control floppy disk drives. A "definite logic bug," says one document. "A flaw in the microcode," says another. They fixed the problem...
Both sides keep a wary eye on the other's construction efforts, and a massive outbreak of violence followed an Israel decision to open a new access tunnel in September 1996. But despite Jewish objections, the Labor government of newly elected prime minister Ehud Barak could see the logic of adding additional exits and worshiping space in a mosque that draws tens of thousands of Muslims to prayer. More important, Barak deemed any attempt to stop the construction as likely to inflame tensions at a point when the city least needs them. The Temple Mount "is the most sensitive place...
...number: 19, as in points that the Browns are giving to a RAMS team that defies, well, logic. Normally you'd be n-v-t-s nuts to give up that many points, but then again, Cleveland is that bad, and St. Louis just might be that good. Have a Bud and take the Rams...
...Republic cites, for example, the method's famous inability to account for why any modern Americans would actually bother to vote, since logic would tell them their vote has no impact and doesn't benefit them...