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...reveal anything probability couldn't: I'll have two children, one smart; my career will be intellectual-ish; and my libido is on an accelerating upswing. Nothing I couldn't have told you. But Paul's foresight wasn't entirely banal. He told me how to spot Murderer's Thumb--broad at the knuckle, narrow at the top. A statistically significant proportion of death row inmates have it. He also tried to justify his art by citing its genetic basis: apparently 60 percent of babies born with a simial line (when the intellect and love lines are one) will develop...
...blocking forms, don't despair too much about randomization. Sure, the Quad is far, but when you have the shuttle of all shuttles to carry you light as air from place to place, what does it really matter? Just step on in, relax in the climate-controlled interior and thumb your nose at river people as you glide...
...were no pictures of aborted fetuses hacked to pieces and floating in a sea of blood. The most vivid photo was a color ultrasound of a 16-week-old child resting in her mother's womb. Her eyes, nose, mouth and hands were perfectly formed. She was sucking her thumb in innocent comfort...
...soliloquies and Tennyson's odes and transported the locals to a distant world. Last week, on a snowy New Hampshire evening, Pat Buchanan brought his one-man traveling show to the Victorian-era Opera House in the northern town of Littleton, a gemlike stage once graced by Mrs. Tom Thumb and Gorgeous George...
Edward Yardeni, a prominent New York City investment economist, thinks there is a 60% to 70% chance that the U.S. is already in a recession. (A rule-of-thumb definition of recession is a decline in national output that lasts at least two consecutive quarters.) Very few of his colleagues agree, but many of them believe that right now output is growing at an annual rate of only 1% or so. The National Association of Purchasing Management is more pessimistic. Enough of its members reported their companies' manufacturing output declining in January to suggest that the economy as a whole...