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...Yale is a long and difficult course with many blind shots and guesswork to the green," Nielsen said...
Professors and administrators say larger-than-expected attendance is the biggest problem with shopping period, while those responsible for producing course materials complain of too much guesswork...
...never was any challenge to Dr. Mack's right to do research on "abduction," to propose hypotheses or to hold controversial opinions. That Mr. Dershowitz would prefer to believe otherwise is puzzling. He either hadn't seen the committee report, in which case he was relying on hearsay or guesswork, or he had seen the report and chose to misrepresent it. The committee was critical of Dr. Mack not because he was interested in the "abduction" phenonmenon but because he wasn't doing any scientific research on the problem and wasn't being sufficiently objective and detached in his clinical...
Opponents also charge that much of the Terrace's design will be no better than guesswork by architects from the master's school at Taliesin West in Arizona, who are supervising the construction. Wright completed only a handful of sketches for the Terrace's interior, so the project supervisors have had to imitate colors, textures and materials used by Wright in other designs of the 1950s. Says architectural historian Narciso Menocal: "It's like finding a 15-page synopsis of a Hawthorne novel and having someone else turn it into a 500-page book. Whose novel is that...
...million private wars being waged across America -- a ragtag army of the abused and the ignored drifting aimlessly like flotsam out of sundered families. Each year as many as 1.3 million teenagers flee home, according to the National Network of Runaway and Youth Services. While the statistics are guesswork, social workers on the front lines perceive a worsening problem. "We're finding that the numbers are going up and the kids are getting younger," says Sister Mary Rose McGeady, president of New York City-based Covenant House. "In Houston the average age is 15. When I was there a year...