Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Further proof that timing is indeed everything came Wednesday for HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo. Normally, the release of a federal report on homelessness merits some polite yawns and space on page 17A. But bring it out amidst a Rudy Giuliani-Hillary Clinton fight on the issue that has everyone interested (even noted wonk Rosie O'Donnell has used her show as an anti-Rudy soapbox) and suddenly we're all very intrigued...
...move covers the same legal ground that the states' attorneys general used in suing Big Tobacco to recover Medicare costs. In recent months Clinton's even evoked that old quadruped, Joe Camel, in attacking gun ads that promote crime-friendly features like fingerprint-proof handles. But the White House isn't necessarily after gun manufacturers' wallets. "While a big money settlement like the one with tobacco would be nice," notes TIME senior political writer Adam Cohen, "I think the President really wants behavioral control." That includes manufacturing safer guns, such as "smart guns," which can only be fired by their...
...although the Gap could not persuade Wiles to pose, other advertisers have succeeded in working mathematics into their marketing messages. Merrill Lynch hailed the Fermat proof in its "human achievement" ads; and Fendi, declaring in Pidgin English that "a woman is theorem which cannot be solved," introduced its Theorema line of enigmatic fragrance, body lotion and bath...
Seife tells stories of mathematicians involved in the denial or promotion of zero that are as incredible as the plot of [pi]. We learn that Pythagoras, the father of mathematical proof, was a vegetarian who would not eat beans because they reminded him of gonads. Legend has it that when his mathematical enemies set his house ablaze and chased the fire-fleeing Pythagoras to the edge of a bean field, the great mathematician declared that he would rather die than mingle with the beans. His pursuers happily slit his throat...
...seemed like an incredibly long time to stay clean. Over the next few weeks, his robust optimism and constant wisecracking would be an inspiration to me as I muddled through very early sobriety. I had been convinced after that first night that I would never laugh again. Jay was proof that life without drugs could be fun--that you could retain your sense of humor...