Word: instinctiveness
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...hurling it into a dumpster. She may have been modeling herself after the parents of another privileged teenager who provided their son Alex Kelly with a life of European ease after he was accused of rape. Surely a lion must protect her cub, but there's a point when instinct must give way to morality...
...biological roots of sin are not by themselves a news flash from the frontiers of science. More than a century ago, Thomas Huxley, Darwin's popularizer, lamented the fact that evolution has given all children "the instinct of unlimited self-assertion"--"their dose of original sin." But the past few decades have brought a deeper Darwinian understanding of human nature, and some of its pioneers believe Huxley underestimated our badness...
...specifically like to consider the question: who could the American voting populace bring itself to vote for first: a black person, a Jew, a woman or a homosexual? When this question first began gnawing at me last spring, I had no satisfying answer. I just knew that my immediate instinct--that none of the above was the answer--troubled me. So I decided to find out a) if my gut was correct...
Acting solely on instinct, the athletic goalie was somehow able to stop a sure goal and maintain the shutout...
...someone so big could move so fast. Just as Ali reinvented himself to win most of his epic battles inside the ring, so has Microsoft reinvented itself to win the Internet war against Netscape and others. This war is far from over, but with the focus, vision and competitive instinct of Bill Gates to lead the way, Microsoft's primacy in the software arena should continue for a long time to come. HASAN ZILLUR RAHIM San Jose, California...