Word: conundrum
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...conundrum is that only one team can be crowned as the Ivy champions Dealt the difficult task, the collective brain trust of the Ivy League resorted to coin flipping as the most efficient way of deciding who plays whom...
...Such are the passions that Insulza and the OAS are tasked with soothing. An added conundrum is the fact that before last weekend, there was some hope that the FARC, with Chavez as a mediator, might continue releasing some of its more than 700 hostages, including three U.S. defense contractors held in the Colombian jungle since 2003. That effort, which includes Ecuador and France (the most famous hostage is former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, a dual Colombian-French citizen), has likely been brought to a halt by last weekend's events. This Friday, Chavez, Uribe and Correa...
...good news is that the superdelegate conundrum is likely to resolve itself without much drama. The thing to remember about superdelegates is that they are pols-and tend not to be all that independent-minded anyway. The last thing they want is to act as referees who call the winner of a grueling 15-round championship fight. In fact, for most of the superdelegates, choosing-in public-between the heroine of one set of Democratic voters and the hero of a different set is a nightmare. What is most likely is that the superdelegates will stay on the fence. They...
...very 21st century conundrum: how can modern, open democracies provide basic homeland security in a world with nearly limitless mobility? On Wednesday, the European Commission tried to answer that by unveiling a border management plan calling for fingerprinting all foreign visitors to the European Union...
...parts of China - that had not seen it in many years or even decades. Its global footprint has also shifted, according to a paper published last month in the journal PLoS Medicine. In the 1970s, most plague cases were in Asia; today, more than 90% are in Africa. The conundrum for epidemiologists: Why is human plague reappearing now, even though nearby animal populations have likely harbored the culprit Yersinia pestis bacteria all along...