Word: trickyness
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Predicting how fast a person will be jogging two years hence is tricky, especially when that person is currently flat on his back in a hospital's intensive-care unit.
But it isn't just the end of the stimulus that makes 2011 a tough year to call. It will also be the year that all the Bush tax cuts expire. And Harris thinks that if a health-care overall gets passed, that could have significant unforeseen effects on the...
Setting ultimatums with deadlines is exactly the approach avoided by Obama during his nine months in office - whether regarding his stimulus package, health-care reform or tricky diplomatic challenges with Russia and the Middle East. Sarkozy, by contrast, has been a ferocious critic of Iran. Just three months after his...
So far, this strain of H1N1 has proved blessedly mild. So far, at least, many people get it; not many die. But mild is a tricky word. "Mild, when you're talking about flu, can still be dangerous," says Michael Shaw, a microbiologist at the CDC who has been working...
English author Lucy Wadham is well positioned to attempt the tricky feat so many other writers have taken on, usually without success: explaining to the rest of the world what makes the French so, well, French. In The Secret Life of France, she uses the insight she has gained from...