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...Admiring her from afar the Church pews, Robert McPhie had a hunch that Megan M. Anderson '02 might just be the right...
...right to follow his hunch. Their first date lasted nine hours, with a dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, and then a romp in the Brookstone Store, where both of them played with the foot and back massagers...
...became interested in labor issues during his first year at the College. He says he saw a disparity between the University's wealth and some of its workers' low wages. He confirmed his hunch by talking to janitors who cleaned the bathrooms in Matthews Hall, where he lived...
...Actually, it's more like a couple dozen men and women sprinkled throughout a massive, oval-shaped chamber the size of a football field that sits near Dulles Airport. Huge, colorful maps are displayed on the walls, and people hunch over computer screens searching for the smallest disturbance that will tip the delicate balance that is the nation's air traffic system into chaos. A real-time snapshot of the U.S. airspace (depicted about five feet high) shows the enormity of the task: up to 5,000 planes overhead at any one moment...
...another hunch turned out to be far more productive. When Snowdon and Kemper first read the sisters' autobiographies in the early 1990s, they noted that the writings differed not just in the density of ideas they contained but also in their emotional content. "At the time," he says, "we saw that idea density was much more related to later cognitive ability. But we also knew that there was something interesting going on with emotions." Studies by other scientists had shown that anger and depression can play a role in heart disease, so the team decided to take another look...