Word: guts
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...nightmare, or a pat on the back when he skins his knee. You may know rationally that gays are no more likely to molest children than are heterosexuals. And you may know that virtually all psychiatrists have agreed for years that kids can't be "turned" gay. But your gut may say something else, something biased...
...English physicist Stephen Hawking--a book that, I think it's fair to say, is not your typical best-seller-list page turner. I figured that it was being snapped up by liberal-arts types who in their undergraduate days had finessed the science requirement by taking some notorious gut in the geology department and still felt guilty about having blindly accepted the conventional wisdom that physics courses should be avoided at all costs...
Making money in the stock market the past few years has often seemed easier than a gut Core class for many Harvard investors. But the curve just rose a little higher last Friday...
...most gut-wrenching mistake made in a championship game in recent memory (especially to baseball fans from around the area) occurred on Saturday, October 25th...
...first change I would propose is the scoring system. If the average person tunes into a golf tournament and sees someone posting a "- 8," the gut reaction might be "wow, that guy sucks so much he's losing points." To make golf more intuitive and to quench the odd American craving for high-scoring sports, I suggest giving players positive points (and lots of them) to award good shots...