Word: hunch
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Diagnosing mental disorders has always been a tricky business, with doctors often relying on little more than observation, experience and the occasional hunch. Once the labels are applied, however, they stick, and medical texts tend to accept the results as truth--reporting, say, that two times as many women suffer from depression as men or that twice as many men suffer from alcoholism. Similarly, women are said to be more prone to anxiety disorders, while men may lean toward conditions stemming from impulsiveness and violence...
...them like an anvil: a stained-glass window in their church, dedicated to him, depicts Jesus talking to "a red-haired boy in a baseball cap who bore an unmistakable resemblance to Robin." One summer, Harriet sets out to "solve" his murder. She concludes--through an arbitrary and disastrous hunch--that he was hanged by his playmate Danny Ratliff, now 20, a drug dealer from a trailer-trash family. The penalty: she will kill Danny by getting a poisonous snake to bite...
...Johnson confirmed the sales. Chairman Billy Tauzin, who is leading an investigation of ImClone with Representative Jim Greenwood, says the timing deepens suspicions of illegal insider trading. "Everyone but the mailroom boy was dumping stock," Tauzin told TIME. "You can't tell me they all suddenly had a hunch to sell...
...Johnson confirmed the sales. Chairman Billy Tauzin, who is leading an investigation of ImClone with Representative Jim Greenwood, says the timing deepens suspicions of illegal insider trading. "Everyone but the mailroom boy was dumping stock," Tauzin told Time. "You can't tell me they all suddenly had a hunch to sell...
...sits like this? No American male over six years old and, Lord knows, no baseball player. Players slouch. Players hunch over with headphones on. Players sit like emperors with arms folded. Yet here is Ichiro, on a chair in front of his locker: feet drawn up, heels pressed against his butt, knees together?a position physically impossible, not to mention unacceptably precious, for the muscle-bound types populating major league clubhouses these days. Twenty minutes pass. Ichiro doesn't move. His head is tilted up to watch a TV set hanging from the wall. He stares, grinning. He would look...