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...these questions," Wallerstein remembers. "The children were sleepless. The children in the nursery school were aggressive. They were out of control." When Wallerstein hit the library for answers, she discovered there were none. The research hardly existed, so she decided to do her own. She had a hunch about what she would learn. "I saw a lot of children very upset," she says, "but I fully expected that it would be fleeting...
...hunch was wrong. Paradise for kids from ruptured families wasn't easily regained. Once cast out of the domestic garden, kids dreamed of getting back in. The result more often than not was frustration and anxiety. Children of divorce suffer depression, learning difficulties and other psychological problems more frequently than those of intact families. Some of Wallerstein's colleagues, not to mention countless divorced parents, felt they were being guilt-tripped by a square. They didn't want to hear this somber news...
...hunch that in a two-way debate, Gore v. Bush, the winner would be the governor of Texas. That's counterintuitive: Bush is short on facts and figures, and Gore is a buffed-up schoolmarm with murder in his eye. But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite - something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy...
...SIXTH SENSE Sometimes you've got a hunch--call it intuition, an educated guess--but you just can't quite be sure: Is he? Is she? Now technology is finally eliminating the guesswork. A Toronto firm called Gaydar Direct has created a simple device for gay men and women that's designed to help them identify others who share their sexual preference. Gaydar ($69) is a battery-powered, key-chain-sized device that buzzes discreetly when it comes within 20 ft. of another Gaydar. What happens next is entirely...
...hunch is that this may not be the case, in which the statistic of 34 percent choosing the correct answer is about right--a bit above the guessing level (25 percent) on a four-choice multiple-choice item...