Word: instinctive
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...These are just warm-up rounds, tame compared with what's most likely in store. Who will emerge strongest after the rubble has settled? No one knows, of course, but one instinct tells me that Rudy will have lost less blood when it's all said and done, based on his experience in the mud pit of New York City politics. Giuliani has another card to play, too: he will be arguing, in effect, "I'm not perfect, but I'll keep you safer...
Musicians have come to trust that visual instinct implicitly. "He has an understanding and an ability to manipulate light, and - far beyond that - a love and desire to perceive the human condition," says Michael Stipe, lead singer of R.E.M. Corbijn has photographed Stipe neck-high in the ocean and once woke him at 6 a.m. to catch the dawn light for a shoot. It's a testament to the respect Corbijn commands that pampered rock stars let him photograph them crawling naked along a riverbank (Iggy Pop), cross-dressing (Dave Grohl) or in a loincloth (David Bowie). They turn...
...this is not about clever marketing. Rather, the treaty should be interpreted as the materialization of an instinct of survival for the continent as a whole. After single-handedly running the globe for centuries, Europe today faces the threat of sinking into oblivion. Through political, economic, and institutional progress, membership to the Union has brought benefits to many countries far beyond the original founders. Where totalitarianism had once consigned whole societies to poverty and underdevelopment, membership to the EU has made Spain and Poland, among others, thrive in the environment of globalization, furthering their relationships with older members like France...
...impression of being a particularly original thinker, she is, say those who have faced her in business negotiations, possessed of a dogged determination. Divorced from Matthew Mellon of the American banking dynasty, with whom she has a daughter, she attributes her success to a combination of ambition and instinct. "My intuition is always spot-on," she insists, "but my brain doesn't always follow it, so I try to stop myself intellectualizing too much...
...Science is trying to solidify the brain-based theory of NDEs, which goes something like this: Survival is our most powerful instinct. When the heart stops and oxygen is cut, the brain goes into all-out defense. Torrents of neurotransmitters are randomly generated, releasing countless fragmentary images and feelings from the memory-storing temporal lobes. Perhaps the life review is the brain frantically scanning its memory banks for a way out of this crisis. The images of a bright light and tunnel could be due to impairment at the rear and sides of the brain respectively, while the euphoria...