Word: proofed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...running smoothly by Nov. 17. Were the above 100 percent readings three days later just a fluke, or were they the output of a normally functioning system? What's truly going on? Perhaps inquiries should be forwarded to British mathematician Andrew Wiles, who gained celebrity for his complicated proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, to see if he can provide a solution. Of course, I myself have discovered a remarkable little explanation, but unfortunately this column is too short to contain...
...theory is that people become only as knowledgeable as they need to be, based on how ugly they are. I have no proof of this, but I can tell you that when I was four years old, I scanned my relatives and realized I would grow up to be a short, bald, shy guy with glasses. This eliminated any hope of an easy career in marketing, politics, modeling or acting as host of Hollywood Squares. People who look like me need skills. Lots of them...
Even as Microsoft stands bloodied in the courtroom following weeks of less-than-stellar testimony, one state is calling off the dogs. Citing the Netscape/AOL merger as proof that the open-to-all Net will keep the world safe for competition, South Carolina Monday took its name off the list of 20 states suing Microsoft for antitrust. "I can no longer justify our continued involvement or the expenditure of state resources on a trial that has been made moot by the actions of the competitive marketplace," said state attorney general Charlie Condon...
Dawkins' thesis has integrity. But the proof he offers does not. The whole title of Dawkins' book, Unweaving the Rainbow, alludes to an accusation that the romantic poet, John Keats, once directed at Newton for "unweaving the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors." And so, instead of speaking of science and humanities in a broad sense, Dawkins uses Unweaving the Rainbow to function as an odd sort of rebuttal in which he accuses Keats (and every other romantic poet who criticized science) as being patently wrong. Although Dawkins' writing is lush and poetic, his approach is bizarre...
...were a single condition and sometimes as if it were a broad range of problems. Researchers suspect that the disorder stems from an inadequate supply of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain--a hypothesis that is supported in part by the fact that Ritalin boosts dopamine levels. But proof of any of this has been tough to come...