Word: explaining
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Murphy and Kacyvenski were unable to explain the problem in the postgame press conference. In fact, both seemed shell-shocked...
...stare at a blinking red dot. If you suddenly shift your gaze, your surgeon can turn the laser off very quickly, but the doctor can't compensate for the small, involuntary eye movements we make all the time. These saccadic motions aren't usually a problem, but they may explain some of the variability in results of the surgery...
Instead, Rivers took several students aside to explain her transition from man to woman, according to parents who objected that their religious and moral standards had been violated. In all, four parents filed formal complaints, assisted by the Pacific Justice Institute, a Sacramento-based firm that often represents Christian conservatives. Passions were further inflamed when Rivers gave an interview to the student newspaper, discussing her childhood belief that she would grow up to be a woman, her three failed marriages and recovery from alcoholism, her psychiatric and hormone therapy and her fear of rejection by students. "I'm not some...
...whatever its flaws--and they will, for some, include its brutal, off-putting imagery--Fight Club can't be ignored. It is working American Beauty-Susan Faludi territory, that illiberal, impious, inarticulate fringe that threatens the smug American center with an anger that cannot explain itself, can act out its frustrations only in inexplicable violence...
ONLINE OVERKILL Researchers at UC-Davis, using six years' worth of data, studied the behavior of some 1,600 investors who switched from phone-based to online trading. Prior to the switch, these investors had beaten the market by more than 2%. Overconfidence may explain why they traded more aggressively online and wound up trailing the market by more than...