Word: confounders
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Uruzgan is certainly a place that could confound an army. The province was a Taliban hotbed that sent hundreds of young men to fight for the regime. Mohammed Younis, the warlord in charge of the military compound raided by the U.S., was friendly with senior Taliban leaders; his son had close ties to Taliban Health Minister Mohammed Abbas Akhund, one of the movement's founders. A Kandahar official told TIME that Akhund and a few other Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding in the mountains outside Uruzgan. While it is possible that U.S. troops simply went to the wrong...
...exceeded all expectations. The second half against Yale was really the only half they’ve been outplayed in an Ivy game. The Crimson has yet to find a No. 2 scorer, but they seem to find a different one every night. They should continue to confound opposing offenses—assuming Gellert stays out of foul trouble, something that killed Harvard against Yale—and they’re holding their own on the boards...
...pressure. "IWC meetings have always been contentious, but it's getting worse," observed Patricia Forkan, senior vice president of the Humane Society International. "The pro-whaling lobby is bringing in countries with no history with the IWC, or even with whaling. Their job appears to be to filibuster, confound and confuse - to influence voters by the sheer number of words spoken." And, she might have added, sheer number of people present. Japan had a team of 50 - twice that of the next largest, those of the U.S. and Britain. Japan's tactics didn't work this year. For the world...
...terrorism is primarily about intelligence - being able to monitor your enemy's communications and anticipate his actions in order to confound his plans and keep him on the defensive. Bin Laden's network is large and diffuse, and its components are highly autonomous, meaning that simply lopping off its head is unlikely to eliminate the threat...
...when a graduate student, an ex-nun, told him about the aging sisters at her former order, living out their retirement in a convent just two hours away. He was already familiar with the advantages of studying religious groups, whose relatively uniform backgrounds mean fewer variations in lifestyle to confound the data. An order of nuns whose economic status, health care and living conditions were especially uniform would be an excellent starting place for an epidemiological study of the aging process. So he went out for a series of visits. Both Snowdon and the sisters had to overcome inhibitions--theirs...