Word: conundrum
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...They said something about maybe switching sweatshirts at the half,” Will said of his parent’s conundrum about who to cheer...
...conundrum is inevitable, Toobin says...
Daslu devotees are not concerned that the store's intimacy will be lost in the sleek new environs. The biggest conundrum they face is what to wear to the new store's inauguration party. --BY GEORGE EPAMINONDAS
...Indeed, when it comes to oil, Asia faces a peculiar conundrum?a kind of macroeconomic China Syndrome. Vigorous mainland growth is great for regional trade, but China's outsized appetite has also driven up global commodity prices, including for crude. China, which is expected to consume 6.3 million barrels of oil per day in 2004, surpassed Japan last year to become the world's second-biggest oil guzzler (trailing only the U.S.). China "is emerging as one of the most decisive factors" in global energy markets, according to a June report published by Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a U.S.-based...
Genesis, a mission run by NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was launched in August 2001 to solve a cosmic conundrum. Although the sun and the flood of particles it radiates make up 99% of all the matter in the solar system, earthlings have never been able to grab hold of much of that so-called solar wind, beyond a tiny bit collected by several of the Apollo missions. Earth's magnetic field causes the stream of hydrogen, helium and other elements the sun gives off to flow around our world like river water around a rock...