Word: predictioneer
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As they monitor the stresses inexorably building up in the earth along the San Andreas Fault, seismologists agree that California could at almost any time suffer another major earthquake, perhaps even more serious than San Francisco's 1906 disaster. Scientists hesitate to predict exactly when or where the big...
SIX YEARS AGO in an essay called "On Genocide," Jean-Paul Sartre condemned the United States government for its seemingly unlimited commitment to the total destruction of the Vietnamese people. Hidden away in that essay was a single paragraph dealing with the hypothesis: What if the war were to end...
Severe Stress. In four cases reported in his book, Psychologic Clues in Forecasting Physical Illness, Dr. Silverman successfully predicted when, after severe, prolonged stress, illness would come and which part of the body would suffer. One successful prediction-of imminent respiratory disease-came after a patient said his girl friend...
If Taubman had difficulty getting Foreman to talk, Ali was hard to stop. At the challenger's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., Taubman vainly tried to squeeze questions into Ali's nonstop monologues. "Even at 6 in the morning when I joined him for his roadwork, he...
Ford is not in any position to make a prediction on his squad's upcoming season--he is still learning all his players' names--but he seems optimistic with the prospects. "Of course we'll try to produce a winning team. However this year I am concentrating on giving a...