Divining whether Knight, 71, will return to Indiana has become a sport unto itself.
But Hu had made her name divining the boundaries of free expression in China.
If discerning American plans is tricky in the fog of disinformation, divining Mr Hussein's intentions is impossible.
It should also be remembered that many market prognosticators have been woefully inadequate in divining the movement of bond yields.
Divining rods are "mystical voodoo bull , " scoffs John Borshoff, a 67-year-old geologist and CEO of Western Australia-based Paladin Energy Ltd.
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The first is the administration's use of "disparate impact, " a statistical divining rod deployed in a widening array of federal antidiscrimination lawsuits.
And then, almost as if what he held was a divining rod, the staff in his hand pointed to the sky westerly.
There, a wall of black refrigerator-size devices inspected the Internet traffic, opening emails, divining passwords, snooping on online chats and mapping connections among various suspects.
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In trying to guess which ones will come through, I've been guided, in four out of five cases, by the divining rod of established talent.
This would seem a boon to divining that terrific, specific golden nugget of customer insight, but for one critical factor: Too much of a good thing.
Merzenich, a professor of neuroscience at the University of California at San Francisco, has spent nearly his entire 35-year career divining the intricate electrophysiology of the brain.
And as in Vietnam, divining reformers from dinosaurs is difficult.
Some officials have long argued that, given the potential for Israel to drag the U.S. into potentially explosive situations, the U.S. should devote more resources to divining Israel's true intentions.
The more accurate machines become at divining our wants and desires and then matching them with compelling products and ads for those products, the more they potentially could cause a backlash.
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He does however rely on microscopes to study samples and has been known to carry an L-shaped divining rod, which he holds over his head until it points him toward water.
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While some call for immigration to revive the region, demagogues whip up a new yellow peril, divining a Chinese plot to win back former possessions by sending people over the border.
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Both refer extensively to online cabals of determinedly-single men, consolidating the old stereotypes in newspapers sold on the idea of an internet conspiracy dedicated to divining the ancient secrets of What Women Want.
The reason: the NFL folks who dole out these fines (operations executive Ray Anderson and his crew) are oftentimes divining the intent of the defensive player, which can be a hard thing to do with on-the-field, before-the-whistle actions that happen in milliseconds.
"We don't know where the markets or economy are going, but you expect us to have opinions, so we manufacture them, " says the note that accompanied a doodle he displayed titled "Divining the Future, " from a meeting of fellow money managers in 1997.
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Next week brings the May nonfarm payrolls report, which many market watchers will use as a divining rod to ascertain whether the Federal Reserve and Ben Bernanke could actually start tapering their asset purchases before the summer is out, perhaps as early as late June.
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But although regulators and insurers both say they are aware of the risks and are taking steps to mitigate them mainly by setting aside pools of extra capital in case they get their sums wrong divining what the world will look like in 40 years' time must be more art than science.
As far as we can tell it doesn't have any TiVo-like technology for divining your tastes, though it does allow an extensive list of preferences and apparently has a range of search and display functions to help you keep track of all that's in there (which with a 400GB drive could be up to 67 hours even at the highest quality).
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