Word: instinctiveness
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What can be done for those poor out-of-sight Losers, charging up their intellectual batteries in their beds, those pathetic souls who can’t quite contain that all-natural instinct to sag their eyelids, whose only crime is listening to their bodily signals? How can they be helped? A study skills course? A time management class? Effort training...
...when you can go after that annoying sniveler who’s right above you in the rankings? Extra points for orchestrating a particularly clever demise. Arsenic in General Wong’s? A quick push down the Science Center stairs? Harvard would be helping us hone that killer instinct...
...once those 15,000 pound "Daisy-Cutter" bombs started falling, exploding in a lethal fuel-air mixture that kills everything in a 600-yard radius, it doesn't mater how fanatical you are, or how gorgeous you believe the women are who waiting for you in paradise. Every instinct of survival kicks in, and you run. The only difference between the Afghans and the Pakistani and Arab guest fighters is that the Afghans who were in the frontline trenches had the presence of mind to turn around and rob their non-Afghan comrades of their money and wristwatches before they...
...tasks of parenthood, the first instinct is to keep your children safe. But there are no safety locks, no stair guards for this moment, and parents of six-year-olds and 26-year-olds find themselves confounded by their inability to do their most basic job. "I feel it has changed my relationship with my children," says George Egan, a Pittsburgh, Pa., investment banker, of the fallout from the attacks. He and his wife Annie have two sets of twins, ages 3 and 6. "When I go upstairs at night to check on them I now feel somehow less confident...
Harvard is not exactly a pipeline for talented Texas football players, who tend to remain in-state or in the South. So Sims’ first instinct was to look at Rice in Houston, where both football and academics were important. But after the Rice coaching staff began to focus its efforts on other talent, Sims turned to the Ivies, and Harvard in particular...