Word: guess
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...guess I will be double-teamed during the game, as I was for most of last year," Patterson said. "But I expect the young guys to perform and be able to take the pressure...
Paul Romer, professor of economics at Stanford University, heartily agrees on the state of America's (and the Internet's) socioeconomic divide: "My guess is it's going to be just like internal combustion on the farm," he says. "If there isn't a change in investments in skills, it will actually widen...
BABY BLUE...OR PINK? Expectant moms: your guess about your baby's sex is, overall, no better than chance, says a survey. But researchers did find that women with 12 or more years of education were correct 71% of the time--far more than less-educated women, whose accuracy rate was 43%. More puzzling: the most accurate predictors were women who relied on dreams or gut feelings, not physical signals. Still, says Johns Hopkins study co-author Janet DiPietro, none of the above dare "run out and paint the nursery pink or blue...
Vince McMahon, chairman of the World Wrestling Federation: I would start with a nice pyrotechnic display, add some voluptuous women to wipe the contestants' brows. I guess I would also add hard rock music in there somewhere and some physicality. Whoever loses would be hit with a folding metal chair...
...wrote about the travails of installing the free operating system Linux. Since then, I've got e-mail daily from folks who want to know how it's going; in their way, Linux's adherents are as evangelical as any member of the orthodox Macintosh religion. Others--who, I guess, didn't read between my lines--wanted to know if they should use Linux instead of Windows or the Mac's operating system. That second question is far easier to answer than the first: for most of the laypeople who read this column, if you have...