Word: coin
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Outside The Crimson, on the other hand, I have defended my newspaper against charges from the left and the right, supporting a headline choice or espousing the editorial board position. This organization-identification (criticism within, defense outside) is the other side of loyalty's coin. To have kept to myself would have given the forces of anti-media outrage a bit of leverage. The Crimson deserves continual credit for being an honest paper...
...horror stories were coin of the realm at Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee hearings into the agency. But TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst believes Senator William Roth?s hearings are something of a sideshow: ?We went through all of this a few weeks ago, and now we?re getting four more days of it. Roth is playing to the gallery,? says Van Voorst. ?The problem with the U.S. internal revenue system isn?t the agency; it?s the irreparably complex tax code -- which was created by Congress...
...experiment was straightforward: 21 TT therapists stuck their hands, palms up, through a screen. Emily held her own hand over one of theirs--left or right, decided by the flip of a coin--and the practitioners had to say which hand it was. When the results were tallied, they'd done no better than they would have by simply guessing. If there was an energy field, they couldn't feel it. Emily is quick to point out that her test must be replicated before it's considered definitive. But it isn't good news for the TT community...
...binomial theory can, for instance, tell you the odds of one man flipping a coin 8,000 times and getting 8,000 heads--about 1 in 10 2400[exponent]. It's a big number, but figure the odds on this: a young Hungarian boy either survives scarlet fever or he doesn't. He either goes to a concentration camp or he doesn't. He either escapes the Russians or he doesn't. Grove, who believes he is good, also suspects he's been amazingly lucky. And if you're trying to understand why his power hasn't bred arrogance...
...huge," said Shreve about his blockmate's physical presence on the sidelines. "I remember the first game after he got hurt I asked him who was going to take the coin toss and he said that he was. So we just watched him crutch to and from the coin toss and it was great. If he didn't it would really mess up the chemistry of the team...