Word: splits
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...word schizophrenic to describe internal conflict within the Republican Party, the metaphor perpetuates a misunderstanding, as does a New York Times article describing the hyena's laughlike calls as "psychotic in pitch." Schizophrenia, a brain disorder whose symptoms can include hearing voices, has nothing to do with multiple or "split" personalities. Psychotic refers to a period of severe, treatable and often terrifying disorientation...
Here's how it works you split the stadium into four equal sections, fill the stands any way you like, and send some skaters out on the ice to stir up some tension. It's a perfect equation--thousands of college students go into a frenzy over the old home team, then crowd onto a Green Line trolley toward a night of revelry, no matter who wins...
...only 100 days to produce a program that extends coverage to everybody yet reduces costs -- which under present policy are expected to more than double in the next six years. Should the President's wife be involved in developing major policies? Respondents to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll split about evenly: 47% yes, 45% no. (See related story on page...
...their bravado, many of the hacker hoods come from broken homes and have deep psychological problems. Rosenfeld's parents split up when he was 15, and the young man recalls brutal physical fights with his hard-drinking father. Several months ago, the hacker literally hacked his wrists with a razor, in his second attempt to kill himself since 1991. "Most of my childhood is a blur, partly because of LSD and partly because I just don't want to remember," says Rosenfeld, who is open, insightful and very likable when he removes the cybermask. "I have no clue...
...PERUCA HYDROELECTRIC DAM, NORTH OF THE Croatian city of Split, may not yet be doomed. But it is in serious trouble. Though the dam is located outside the areas designated for Croatia's rebellious Serbs by last year's peace plan, the Serbs had threatened to blow it up rather than hand it over to their Croatian rivals...