Word: uncertainity
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Morris centers his work, perhaps surprisingly, on one of the three aggressors, Dewis. The play’s dramatic strength comes from investigating the psychology of a boy involved in perpetrating perverse acts. He is repelled and fascinated, intrigued at the inventive evil of his friends, and ultimately uncertain where to draw the line between punishment and cruelty...
...Environmental Protection Agency has been monitoring the area, and while traces of carcinogenic asbestos are showing up in some dust samples at Ground Zero, posing a danger for anyone not wearing a mask, it has not shown up in samples taken in the outlying boroughs. While it is uncertain whether asbestos was used in the towers, which were completed in 1973, it may have been used elsewhere in the area. "We have not seen anything that would lead to long-term environmental or health problems," says EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who toured the site Thursday. The bodies trapped...
Among those evacuated last week were relatives of two American aid workers on trial here, accused of preaching Christianity. After traveling 10,000 miles to a country where few dare to venture, the parents had to leave their daughters behind to an uncertain fate. Waiting to board a U.N. plane for Islamabad, Deborah Oddy, mother of Heather Mercer, 24, wore a black head scarf and sobbed uncontrollably. Since the Soviet invasion in 1979, this country has seen more than its share of tears. Now the frightened residents of Kabul are worried that this latest incident will bring on even more...
However, since the Office of Homeland Defense is in its infancy, Harvard experts said they are uncertain of how effective it will...
...surprising, then, that the requirements of coalition building spurred the Bush administration over the last week to knock Israeli and Palestinian heads together. Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat were told in no uncertain terms that the game had changed, and that both sides would face the wrath of the international community unless they do more to forge a cease-fire. Nobody's expecting miracles, but changing the tone of Israeli-Palestinian relations is considered critical to maintaining the all-important Arab support for the anti-terror coalition. Still, it'll take a lot more than an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire...