Word: fuzzier
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...Prostate-Cancer Screening To screen or not to screen? When it comes to cancer, doctors say early detection is the best defense. But the picture is a little fuzzier when it comes to prostate cancer, which in many cases progresses slowly and may not require aggressive treatment. In March, a 10-year National Cancer Institute study involving more than 76,000 men seemed to make the case for watchful waiting. About half of the study volunteers were randomly assigned to the screening group, getting either a manual exam or a prostate-specific antigen test each year; the latter test measures...
...about her book's mission: "It will be nice through an unfiltered forum to get to speak truthfully about who we are and what we stand for and what Alaska is all about," she told the Anchorage Daily News in May, when the deal was first announced. Memoirists with fuzzier goals may find the process slowed by handlers or publishers who bicker over how the book should read, ghostwriters...
...Stress video controversy draws out precisely this dubious quality of the Web. Justice calls the hoopla a reminder of "just how difficult it is today to control the destination of images and the integrity of their meaning." Indeed, that integrity seems to get fuzzier with each new viewer clicking play - and, for that matter, with each new dot-com article about...
Here's one catch: there is a missing player in all this hugging and goat eating. He is Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of the Mahdi Army militia and, quite possibly, the most popular Shi'ite political figure in the country. Al-Sadr is less accessible, a fuzzier figure than al-Hakim. The U.S. intelligence community has only a vague sense of how much control he has over his disparate movement, which includes everything from Iranian-trained guerrillas, referred to as "special groups," to ragtag teenage criminal street gangs who claim the Mahdi mantle. He has been spending...
...necessarily looking to convert anyone. They are looking to mobilize their base. And indeed, Obama's speech got him a standing ovation at that church in Chicago. So we can expect to hear more such analogies - right up until the primaries are over. Then the math may get even fuzzier...