Word: unknowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Polk County, which has more than 1,400 registered day-care centers and 90 schools. What's more, Des Moines police sergeant Barry Arnold, who is overseeing the law in the state capital, estimates that the whereabouts of some 15% to 18% of the city's convicted offenders is unknown because they never reregistered after moving. That problem isn't unique to Des Moines. An estimated 100,000 of the more than 500,000 registered sex offenders nationwide have not provided a current address...
...plausibility--basically, everything--it makes up for in plotting, pacing and panache. Once in the clink, Scofield sets in motion a complex Swiss watch of an escape plan. He tracks down brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell), who is being held in isolation. He feigns diabetes to get access, for unknown reasons, to the medical facilities. He enlists the help of a Mafia boss (Peter Stormare, playing against Nordic type) by finding--don't ask how--the witness protection-sheltered stoolie who fingered him. He cozies up to a prisoner who may or may not be famed hijacker D.B. Cooper (Muse Watson...
Rwandan beans are jumping these days: this year's crop sold out, with Green Mountain coffee, Whole Foods and other companies eagerly buying. "Rwanda has gone from being completely unknown to being the hottest coffee origin in 2005," says Schilling, who runs PEARL in Rwanda...
...BEAR Weight: 60 to 145 lbs. Length: Up to 5 ft. Range: India, Burma, Laos, southern China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia How dangerous: Quite. Will attack humans without provocation Status: Unknown, because of insufficient field data. Poaching and habitat destruction have conservation experts worried...
...months the clergyman has alluded in general terms to an immense volunteer effort called the PEACE plan, aimed at transforming 400,000 churches in 47 nations into centers to nurse, feed and educate the poor and even turn them into entrepreneurs. Its details remain unknown, but its Rwandan element seems to have outrun the rest. Warren says he was "looking for a small country where we could actually work on a national model," and Kagame, impressed by The Purpose-Driven Life, volunteered Rwanda in March. In July Warren and 48 other American Evangelicals, who have backgrounds in areas like health...