Word: instinctive
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...turns out that your first instinct was correct. All is not lost. When a system freezes or crashes altogether, both PCs and Macintoshes have mechanisms by which you can recover most, if not all, of your data...
...pile on a lone female. Copulation is usually brief but can last more than a day for Western diamondbacks (probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm for months, until some instinct tells the cold-blooded creatures that the temperature is right for fertilization. Like birds (close kin), most species are egg layers, though some give birth to fully formed young...
...hard to pin down a reason why Harvard has not shown a killer instinct. Maybe Murphy and company need to learn how to be a front-runner after a few years of futility...
...Larry Flint, The Joy Luck Club), dabbles in TV (Wild Palms), keeps stoking his legend. A Child's Night Dream should do that: it's a big, toxic dose of undiluted Oliver. But don't take his word for him. Check out Jane Hamsher's funny, true-sounding Killer Instinct (Broadway Books; 288 pages; $25), about her experience as producer of Stone's Natural Born Killers. The book paints Stone as a holy freak--part Ahab, part Ken Kesey--who'll drive everyone nuts to get a film made...
Janet Reno's parents were both newspaper reporters. Her brother Robert is a columnist. So it's fair to suspect she has a journalist's instinct in her blood. That could explain what it was that got her last week to jump-start her department's investigation of campaign fund raising: sheer fury at being scooped. Earlier this month she read in the Washington Post that $120,000 in "soft money" solicited by Al Gore for general party activities last year had somehow found its way into "hard money" accounts that financed individual campaigns. Reno was outraged that reporters...